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Finally getting around to painting my UK-113 "Humber MK I" pack and while researching what colors to use I have discovered that the turret and hull are not a historically accurate combination.
The turret has the .50 vickers combo mount - this was only used on the GUY MK I armored car. The GUY hull is similar to the Humber MK I hull except that the rear fender/stowage slants downward on the GUY. The US-113 pack has a horizontal rear fender/stowage so it is correctly a Humber MK I hull.

The GUY MK IA armoured car had the turret with the long Besa 15mm HMG. That is the turret that should have been included with US-113. It is the same turret as the HUMBER MK II (UK-51). So easy fix, everyone will need to to get a spare gun sprue from Pack UK-51 to fix these. Then we will have a correct Humber MK I. They were first used in the desert.

Incidentally the UK-113 pack does make a passable GUY MK I armored car. If GHQ could tweak that rear fender/stowage it would be great!
Those served in France in 1940.

Might as well pass on some links to my references while I have them up. War Wheels dot net is great.

The booklet "British Armoured Cars" by B.T. WHITE is old but accurate.


http://www.warwheels.net/images/HumberM ... w1-100.pdf

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/d ... mor_id=479

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/gb/G ... ed-Car.php

https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/gb/H ... ed_Car.php

Did you contact GHQ about this? they might be able to fix the problem.

Last time I contacted GHQ about an issue, they never bothered to respond. There do seem to be more errors occurring than before so I wonder whether GHQ's research team has some less experienced people than it used to have.