Stuart Taylor (Beaver22) tackles the recently released SKP Humber Scout Mk. I and provides a description of his build and finish of the kit.



Humber Scout Mk. I

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Thanks!

Nice job Stuart.
Good to see a little fresh blood submitting reviews.

nice review
where can i get one?

A quick search on Google pulled up this listing at Jadar Hobby in Poland:
http://www.jadarhobby.waw.pl/model-humber-scout-p-13359.html

Or you can order directly from SKP via their website:
http://www.skpmodel.eu/skp011.php

A very nice job on an iffy model. I think that I'll wait for the Bronco model.
Cheers
Kevin

Thanks for the support guys. i will be submitting more very soon. This is my first feature article and the support and patience that Bill has shown me is very welcoming.

Thanks to Bill and Jim, you really are legends!

First of all Stuart, you really have done a superb feature. It's also interesting that you've come to exactly the same conclusions as those of us who did the initial reviews on it. It's great to see the Scout Cars getting covered, but SKP do really need to improve aspects of their design and production.

It's also reassuring to see that you discovered the same need for filler as I did

I'd be interested in getting the details of those additional panels you mentioned - if you could pass them on i'd be very grateful

Good review Stuart. It's good to see new manufacturers tackling vehicles that the major manufacturers are reluctant to/don't want to bother with. Hopefully SKP will improve with experience and be able to do justice to more of these interesting British armoured cars.

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for the build review, nice work on the kit.

Just a word of caution when ordering from SKP. I ordered one plus some figs before the production run had gotten underway.

As I don't use paypal, I sent the money registered mail (always risky but.....)

Anyway so far no kit, but what's more worrying is that having sent them the registered letter number and several follow up emails to see if ti had arrived after the initial welcome and prompt replies I had received when placing the order - nothing!!!!!

I can claim the £20.00 back from the Post Office, so I'm not too brothered about that but I was surprised and then annoyed that they didn't bother to respond to my requests for an update This has been running for several weeks now and I sent off another email last night - I'll just have to wait for the Bronco one lol, lol.

Cheers

Al

Jim Rae

Thanks for the comments. I think in a bizarre way, I enjoyed the kit more because of it's flaws. gave it a bit of character and I felt I needed the practice with filler.

Here is a little back story to the additional panels.
Here you can see in white the front bulkhead plate which was omited from the kit. Also I remade the headlamp holders. Both pieces were simply made out of styrene sheet and rod for the bolt heads.





For more pictures like this head on down to Google on the link below for a plethora of exanples!

http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=humber+scout+

Be lucky and thanks again for the support

Stuart

Hi Guys,

Just an update from my prevous post. I heard from SKP today. They have very kindly offered to make good the order if I send them a copy of the original resistration receipt.

I have to say that's very decent of them indeed, so I might get this one yet.

Thanks Janet.

Cheers

Al

Do it Do it Do it!

There is a new figure as well which I am planning to get. The two british figures are pretty good too and the prices are very reasonable, what you should pay for resin figures.