I have a few kits in the stash that I'm not going to have time to build, even in the 6 weeks allotted for this GB but this is one I bought last year in Telford with the intention of including it in any WW1 GB we had. I'm sure quite a few of you are familiar with the Emhar WW1 kits. They've been around for quite a while now. I built the Mk.IV a few years ago and, despite what it's detractors say, I think it's quite a nice kit that looks the part and goes together quite easily. I hope the Whippet has the same characteristics.
Here are a few introductory pictures.
Three main sprues with some rather thick mould gates but the parts are flash-free and very sharply moulded. Given the age of the moulds I can only surmise that Emhar haven't used them much.
I'm in 2 minds about what markings to use. The kit includes the amusingly titled machine "Fanny Adams" on the decal sheet but my inspiration to want to build a model of the Whippet came about after reading of the exploits of "Musical Box", a Whippet that got separated from an attack and then spent several hours alone driving around behind German lines causing chaos, scattering resting soldiers and even destroying an artillery battery. Much of this done with the crew wading ankle deep in petrol! I have done some research and the markings shouldn't be too difficult to recreate.
Let's see how much time I can spare.
