1:35 British Humber Mk III accessories set

1:35 British Humber Mk III accessories set - a Black Dog accessory set

This is an accessory set in 1:35 from Black Dog meant for a model of the British Humber armored car in the Mk III version. What is offered here is not a model of the vehicle but an accessory that moves a finished model closer to the look of the real machine in the field.

The real subject

Humber armored cars were among the most numerous British wheeled fighting vehicles of the Second World War. They were built on the chassis of an all-wheel-drive cross-country truck, and their task was above all reconnaissance, flank protection and communications between advancing units, that is work where speed and range count for more than armor. Against the earlier marks, the Mk III version brought a roomier turret for a crew of three, which made working the weapons and the radio appreciably easier. Humbers served in North Africa, in Italy and in northwest Europe, units of Allied nations including the Polish and the Czechoslovak used them, and they stayed in service with a number of armies after the war as well.

How to work with the accessories

Reconnaissance cars operated far from support for long periods and their crews carried their gear with them, so the accessories should not be scattered over the model at random but placed where they do not get in the way of the access hatches and openings. In color it pays to set the textile, the wood and the metal apart at the base coat stage and only then to pull the whole together with fine dust weathering.

Who the set is for

• Modelers of British Second World War vehicles in 1:35
• Anyone interested in wheeled reconnaissance vehicles
• Builders of dioramas from North Africa and from western Europe
• Modelers who want to add period detail to a finished model