EXCLUSIVE BUILD
Kev Smith completes Airfix’s newly tooled 1/35 Ferret Scout Car Mk.2… and finds plenty to savour.
The Ferret Scout Car can trace its lineage back to the successful Daimler Dingo Scout Car used during World War Two.
As with the Dingo, the Ferret was used widely by the British Army and Commonwealth armed forces as a light armoured reconnaissance and liaison vehicle. In service since the 1950s onwards, variants of the Ferret were used as late as the Gulf War of 1990. Designed with stealth in mind and using its speed to probe enemy positions and report any findings back to commanders. The vehicle weighed approximately four tons and was of a welded construction; the armour was limited, being designed to resist just small arms fire, so the crew would rely on the reliable 6-cylinder Rolls-Royce engine – which gave the vehicle a top speed of 45mph... and four-wheel drive to get them out of any trouble.
Above: Before starting to build Airfix’s new Ferret, it’s prudent to study the instructions and mark which of the three choices the modeller wishes to build as assembly differs between each almost from the outset.
Above: The floor and firewall come in a simply designed three-part assembly. Here the modeller needs to m…
