SKP Model

1/35 Interior Set For the SKP Humber MK I/II Scout Car

Stock Number: skp 019

Reviewed By  Howie Belkin, IPMS# 16

MSRP: €14.69 = $21.70 Website: www.skpmodel.eu SKP released their own injection molded Humber Scout Car after already establishing themselves as a serious model company with several decals sheets of the WWII Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade, a few UK (or Czech) resin figures, VW wheels and German and US helmets with helmet liners. IPMS member Patrick Keenan, who runs the Armored Car SIG and WarWheels.net, reviewed the Humber model. SKP has also released the engine and engine compartment for the Humber, also already reviewed by IPMS. This interior set is most everything you need forward of the engine firewall. After modelers waited fifty years for a decent injection molded 1/35 Humber kit to come out, our patience was rewarded with two: this one from SKP and another from Bronco. Bronco included interior detail from front to back with their kit, marketing it for around $60. SKP sells their basic Humber for about $27 plus shipping, and you can 'button it up" or add this separate interior set for $21 and the engine set for about $18 more. SKP also publishes a book by Petr Brojo, Army Wheels in Detail Humber MK.I, II Scout Car with Czech - English text and pictures in English if you want to definitively know the Humber inside and out. The interior set combines use of kit parts and resin and p.e. parts. Where the kit has hatches and doors molded closed, you need to cut them away to replace them with these new, detailed parts. The entrance/escape hatches can now be posed open, showing off the exquisite detail on the back of the hatches as well as showing off the new, complete interior. The interior includes the clutch, brake and gas pedals, gear shift and handbrake, radio set, seats, racks, straps - even under-roof detail - plus a color guide re what's ivory and what's khaki green or black. Pat's kit review stresses "dry fit" before gluing, which is probably a good idea here too. You could probably use some parts to improve your old Tamiya Daimler Scout Car if you were so inclined. It's cool that Bronco's Humber comes pretty much complete but that pushes their price out of many modelers' reach. SKP's Humber lets you choose how much you want to spend, and how much you want to build. Not many of us build the engine compartment, so here SKP gives you the opportunity to skip the engine but super detail the driver/fighting compartment at a more reasonable price. The resin parts are crisply molded with no glaring air holes. The only possible thing to have made this set even better would have been the inclusion of additional Bren gun magazines, spare helmets, goggles, binoculars and the like - and perhaps an even lower price but I'm pretty cheap and hard to please. Otherwise it's certainly recommended and will improve your SKP Humber tremendously. Thanks to SKP for the review sample. You can get yours at better hobby shops or www.skpmodel.eu or REAL-SKP, a.s. Tribrichy 47 537 01 Chrudim Czech Republic.

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