1/72 Osiris Humber Hornet, AFV 1620

[Ron Bell]

Osiris models are on demand 3D printed models of excellent quality. You can see the detail from the photos and they have some unique subjects as well. They do, however, have the striations on some of the flat surfaces from the printing process that would be relatively easy to remove, but a lot of detail would go with them that would need to be replaced so I opted to just leave them alone. To call them "kits" would be an overstatement. This one had only 9 parts, 10 if you count the extra launcher in travel mode. With all that said, here's the Humber Hornet with the first generation anti-tank missile, the Malkara. It was based on the Humber armored truck known as "the pig" which was used extensively during the Irish "Troubles". The Hornet was air dropable using six specially designed parachutes. It was used by airborne units and some armored units. The missile was not well liked as it took a lot of training for the operator to keep it on target, it was big and heavy and it was pretty slow to target which left the operator somewhat exposed. However, it did serve for 15 years before it was superseded by the Swingfire missile mounted on the Ferret armored car. You may notice in a few photos that the launcher is crooked. That's because it is not glued in place because I wanted it removable as you get a entire separate launcher and missiles in the travel position and I wanted to be able to swap them out. I just didn't check to see if it was straight until I saw the photos.