Airfix Scout Carrier 1940

Continuing with the BEF 1940 theme, I have been reading how successful the British used the Carrier in operations while in France. It was out of all proportion how well they Carriers performed especially in the counter attack role. Time and time again they were used to break up German attacks and save the day. Considering what they supposed to be used for, I was very impressed and as I had a spare Airfix Bren Gun Carrier floating around I decided to build one for my epic upcoming battle with Al.
First up I did not want to build the standard late war Carrier as the Airfix kit is, although they used a version similar to the boxy Airfix Carrier in France, I thought it would be nice to construct a earlier Scout Carrier as above. With a sloping side plate on one side and the other side being basically a open space I decided that this was the one for me. Simple and straight forward, just the way I like it.

Stage one changes to the build were the side plate was cut with a model knife at a angle roughly to the same degree as the many photo's I had been gathering on the BEF.

On the other face I just left enough side plate to cover the crew compartment.

I then added a spare locker type box to cover the open side deck, as the photo's imply, along with a Vickers MMG from a Matchbox set.

Note that the instructions that were supplied in this kit of mine are confusing in the aspect on how the tracks and wheel assemblies are placed. The diagram is right some of the time and wrong at others, use actual photo's to get it right.