MW Miniature Work

This is a 1:72 scale model of the Vauxhall D-type staff car of 1917. It's from Roden of Ukraine, who have a useful number of British vehicles of WWI at that scale. I plan to include it in the same airfield scene as the S.E.5a described in my previous post. Long way to go yet before I've assembled everything :) Vauxhall disappeared into the GM conglomerate a long time ago (I have a blurry boyhood memory of the family car being a Vauxhall Victor for a while), but it was a well known auto maker of the era. The D-type was well favoured for the staff car role and more than 1,500 were built. One was celebrated for its employment by King George V on a visit to the Front after the Armistice in November 1918. These pictures are a little frustrating for me to present, as always with very small kits. The model barely makes it to six centimetres in length, and in reality you hardly notice the dodgy paintwork which is all too apparent blown up like this. Too bad. Yes, it's very smal...