Does this resemble an actual scout vehicle?

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 12:36 am

This has come up on a local auction site. It's cheap enough, but does anyone recogize it as resembling any real life scout vehicle?

http://www.trademe.co.nz/toys-models/ac ... 461225.htm

Vonberne · Post by **Vonberne** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:07 am

Looks like a Daimler Armoured Car.

Post by **aferguson** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:34 am

that's made by Chap Mei.

It most resembles an immediate post war Daimler Ferret or Fox.......can't remember which.

It kinda looks like a wwii daimler mk 1 or 2 and is actually the right size in 1/18 too. I have one that i plan to fix up a bit and repaint as a wwii daimler armored car. Fenders are the wrong shape, other details are off but it does have the overall look of a WWII daimler.

YT · Post by YT » Sun Jul 29, 2012 7:28 am

That's awesome! I would love to have one of those.

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 4:22 pm

Could be a Humber Scout Car, most popular Brit armored car in WW2 or a Fox, a Canadian armored car, also WW2 vintage.

A Ferret is similar but lacks any armament bigger than a small turret with twin .30cal machine guns. The Fox had a turret with a .50cal and a .30cal machine guns during WW2. The Humber had a 37mm gun like your toy but only the Ferret mounted a spare tire midships on the side like the toy. I've been in a Ferret with its Royce Rolls engine and really weird transmission. You press in the clutch, shift gears, and the gear engages a half block later. I refused to drive it in a parade and only was the gunner.... but I regress.

After WW2 the Fox was upguned to bigger light cannons into the 60's.

If the size is good for 1/18, it is nice as an addition to our Brit vehicles....... wait.... do we have any Brit 1/18?

TTT

Post by **aferguson** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 5:46 pm

it's way too small for a Humber, unfortunately. It's about 8 inches long...perfect for a 1/18 Daimler but about 1/24 scale for a Humber. The fenders look more Humber like than Daimler, though.

There's also a French post war armoured car it looks like but i can't remember the name.

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 8:31 pm

Panhard 178 is the French armored car.

TTT

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 1:09 pm

Ok cool. So a few options for a possible conversion.
Still trying to figure out inside my own head, if it's too toy like. The auction still has a day to go....

graycap · Post by **graycap** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 7:22 am

Looks a bit like a Staghound.

Threetoughtrucks · Post by **Threetoughtrucks** » Tue Jul 31, 2012 1:55 pm

Too many differences to be a Staghound. Turret is very different. fenders are bigger and not as round, gun on Staghound is smaller, entire Staghound is bigger than this car.

Good suggestion though.

TTT

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