Hasegawa Daimler Mk 2 armored car

Time to catch up on some completions.

This is the Hasegawa Daimler Mk 2 armored car. The original was a parallel development with the Mk 1 Dingo (formerly available in an Ace 1:72 kit but now appears to be discontinued) that served primarily in the Western Desert.

It is a very simple model – just how I like 'em – that didn’t take long to assemble. Plus it was painted a single color. But that paint job raises an interesting point. Long-term readers will know that I do little in the way of weathering. My rationale is that I’m not doing dioramas and the fictional backstory is that these are all museum exhibits that are pretty well cleaned up prior to display. But something like this armored car, with lots of wide flat surfaces and no camo, shows the weakness of this approach. It just doesn’t look right without any color moderation at all. Not that I could become an advanced weatherer at this late stage, but I might need to at least get some post shading accommodation into a model such as this.

Still, the simplicity can be said to be its own reward.

This is completed vehicle #17 (5 aircraft, 0 ordnance, 2 vehicles for the year 2018), finished in May of 2018.