75th Anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Army Build)
Allied Support - Humbers and Stuarts
So I’ve painted up plenty of German toys, time to add to the Allied arsenal. I don’t have any scouting units to deploy so now seems like a good time to do it. I’ve been shot plenty of times by Stuart’s in World of Tanks, so they must be good 🙂 and I do like the Humber IV Scout Car.
So I’ve picked up the PSC Stuart boxed set and the Humber boxed set from Battlefront.
The Humbers are a resin body with metal parts, not my favourite mix but as it was just the wheels, hatch and gun in metal, it wasn’t a big deal. I just used some green stuff to make sure there was a good contact area between the metal and resin.
The plastic Stuarts went together very easily and both vehicles have a good level of detail.
I’ve primed them with the Vallejo primer and then gone in with a Olive Drab.
Decals next. I’ve kept these simple, just some stars, British turret markings for the Stuarts and a serial number. All applied using decal set.
I’ve then given the commander a coat of British Battledress, black for any cables/headsets and barbarian flesh. Any tools have been painted flat earth for the wood and gunmetal for the metal areas. That pretty much covers the base colours – British tanks are far quicker to paint than German!
With the base colour down, I’ll now paint over these with the strong tone dip. This will provide the shading as well as locking down the decals under a varnish layer.
Were the Stuart’s fiddly and hard to put together?
Really enjoying the Project keep up the good work.
Hi @Elessar2590
Thanks for the comment, glad you’re enjoying the project!
Stuart’s went together fairly easily. The guns are a little spindly so you have to cut the sprue around them first otherwise you end up bending them. Otherwise reasonably straight forward and everything lined up pretty well.
More great progress on the project, @redvers – I feel Stuarts are a surprisingly good light tank, at least until the Chaffee comes out, much later in the war. In quick little “wolf packs” they can be very nasty in games like Panzer Leader or Battlegroup.
I do like the Stuart’s. In FoW they are fast and if you can get them around the flanks, very useful for hit and run activities and even taking out a few panzers on their side armour.
And as I’m called Stuart as well, what’s not to like? 🙂