Hello,
here are the photos of my finished FV 107 CVR(T) Scimitar Mk.2.
The model is from Fore Hobby and is in 1/72 scale.
The kit has an excellent fit. However, it also has a huge number of tiny little parts - which is not always fun to work with.
The only things I changed are the antennas (the kit antennas are too thick and much too short). I also drilled out the headlights and used my own decals. The decals from Fore Hobby are the worst thing about the whole kit (not the quality of them but the lack of research and choice).
In general, the choice of model is very strange. It seems as if the designers at Fore Hobby had access to a Scimitar Mk.2, but otherwise did not look into the matter any further. I write this because it simply seems illogical to me to produce an injection molded model of a vehicle that was originally built just 30 times - and which most people have never heard of. The kit layout is such that it is not even possible to build the early Afghanistan variant from it without any problems. With a little more foresight and economic thinking, it would have been possible to produce the majority of the CVR(T) family with a few small extra sprues. And there would certainly have been much greater interest in this in the model building community. Missed opportunity!
Back to the model. My vehicle represents the "64A" (NG52AB) of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers as it was used in an exercise in Estonia in 2020.
I tried to keep the vehicle as clean as possible, but then I didn't want to do without a few streaks (which look very strange in the enlarged pictures) and a few splashes of dirt.
I think the next British (post 1945) military vehicle I will build will be the FV 107 CVR(T) Scimitar (basically the Mk.1). Since there are only mediocre metal and resin models of it in 1/72 and the Short Run kit from Ace, I will probably resort to 3D printing.
Thank you for watching.
Kind regards,
Andreas
here are the photos of my finished FV 107 CVR(T) Scimitar Mk.2.
The model is from Fore Hobby and is in 1/72 scale.
The kit has an excellent fit. However, it also has a huge number of tiny little parts - which is not always fun to work with.
The only things I changed are the antennas (the kit antennas are too thick and much too short). I also drilled out the headlights and used my own decals. The decals from Fore Hobby are the worst thing about the whole kit (not the quality of them but the lack of research and choice).
In general, the choice of model is very strange. It seems as if the designers at Fore Hobby had access to a Scimitar Mk.2, but otherwise did not look into the matter any further. I write this because it simply seems illogical to me to produce an injection molded model of a vehicle that was originally built just 30 times - and which most people have never heard of. The kit layout is such that it is not even possible to build the early Afghanistan variant from it without any problems. With a little more foresight and economic thinking, it would have been possible to produce the majority of the CVR(T) family with a few small extra sprues. And there would certainly have been much greater interest in this in the model building community. Missed opportunity!
Back to the model. My vehicle represents the "64A" (NG52AB) of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers as it was used in an exercise in Estonia in 2020.
I tried to keep the vehicle as clean as possible, but then I didn't want to do without a few streaks (which look very strange in the enlarged pictures) and a few splashes of dirt.
I think the next British (post 1945) military vehicle I will build will be the FV 107 CVR(T) Scimitar (basically the Mk.1). Since there are only mediocre metal and resin models of it in 1/72 and the Short Run kit from Ace, I will probably resort to 3D printing.
Thank you for watching.
Kind regards,
Andreas
If you ignore then firs photo, then you’d be forgiven for thinking it’s 1:48 or perhaps even 1:35 scale.
