Staff car

[Trev]

Hi have been trying to find a 1/35 scale ww2 British staff for a diorama I wanted to try and build. Has anyone seen one?????? Cheers Trev

 

[Pantherman]

Hi have been trying to find a 1/35 scale ww2 British staff for a diorama I wanted to try and build. Has anyone seen one?????? Cheers Trev

Not exactly a car but close as I can get for you. Pantherman

 

[Trev]

Thanks Pantherman very kind it's not quite what I had in mind though. It seems that there are plenty of ww2 German staff cars about but not British. You can get them in 1/72 scale but not 1/35. I will have to rethink what I want to do. Many thanks for getting back cheers Trev

 

[urumomo]

you're right that the pickins be slim
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/roden-815-1941-packard-clipper--1319698

 

[BarleyBop]

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/wespe-models-wes-35014-humber-fwd-staff-car--1336436
more of an off road staff car.
also:
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/accurate-armour-k083-humber-box--219455
or Monty's staff car, 1:32
https://www.scalemates.com/topics/topic.php?id=27033
I imagine the Humber Super Snipe would be perfect, but I can't find it in 1:35 ...

 

[BarleyBop]

... of course, there is always the Ford C11 ADF, sometimes used in North Africa as a staff car... according to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_C11ADF

Wespe has a rather basic resin kit you'd probably want to enhance, but it is a start...
https://www.wespemodels.com/militar...le_1_35_ford/ford_c11_adf_alexander_wes_35026

I used one of these kits to build Sterling's Blitz Buggy.

There is one just down the hill from my house at the Canadian War Museum; purportedly

Sir Harold George Alexander, Field Marshal Viscount Alexander of Tunis, used it when he was in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy during the Second World War.

 

[Trev]

Thanks for the help guys it's surprising that there isn't a 1/35 scale British staff car perhaps one of the manufacturers might see this and produce one or two. But I appreciate the help cheers Trev

 

[the Baron]

I checked Tamiya's catalog, because they have produced so many WWII kits in 1/35, but they don't have a British staff car, either.

As far as anyone producing one goes, I wouldn't hold my breath. Only if a company thinks it would sell, would they add one. There probably hasn't been much demand for a British staff car.

A web search on "wwii british staff car" returned a good number of hits, including a photo of Montgomery's Humber. A lot of the photos look like the British Army used a lot of civilian cars, repurposed, like the US Army did. Have you tried looking for models of the cars in civilian livery, that you could repurpose for military use?

 

[BarleyBop]

hasn't been much demand

Ah, the plight if the soft skin enthusiast!

cars in civilian livery

Good point — when researching my Topolino build, came across several images of them in Allied service...

 

[Trev]

Cheers Pantherman have to be honest hadn't thought about that I will have a look and get back to you cheers Trev

 

[TimM63]

Hi have been trying to find a 1/35 scale ww2 British staff for a diorama I wanted to try and build. Has anyone seen one?????? Cheers Trev

1/32 scale but close enough.
https://poshmark.com/listing/Airfix...nd-Monty-Figures-New-6880f4b5a56649d15c7db128