Ferret

[Jakko]

You can tell in the photo with the Austin Champ that yhe arm of service marking is diagonal, so the red/blue 46s in that set aren’t accurate (and the style of the numbers is wrong for 04BB69, of course).

Going by the second photo of that Saracen, the vehicles weren’t white: the characters on the number plate are clearly lighter than the armour plate they’re on. First the values for the top part of the letter A:



And at the same height, but between the AoS marking and the number plate:



Since the values for R, G and B are about equal, the colours in the photo are basically grey — not too surprising, of course — and black is 0,0,0 while white is 255,255,255. Clearly, if the characters were white (as they would have been) then the rest of the plate was some pale colour, but not white. A pale sand colour, perhaps? I’m not up to speed on what was used on British AFVs on Cyprus in the 1960s, though.

 

[Airborne01]

And an Austin Champ if I'm not mistaken - never seen a model of one of those!
Steve

 

[scottie3158]

And an Austin Champ if I'm not mistaken - never seen a model of one of those!
Steve

I think Accurate Armour do one.

 

[Mickc1440]

Mick,
Are these any good to you. If so just ping us your address in a PM and I will get them in the post.

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Thanks for the offer pal but it appears they’re not quite right, strange coincidence about the number

 

[Mickc1440]

You can tell in the photo with the Austin Champ that yhe arm of service marking is diagonal, so the red/blue 46s in that set aren’t accurate (and the style of the numbers is wrong for 04BB69, of course).

Going by the second photo of that Saracen, the vehicles weren’t white: the characters on the number plate are clearly lighter than the armour plate they’re on. First the values for the top part of the letter A:

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And at the same height, but between the AoS marking and the number plate:

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Since the values for R, G and B are about equal, the colours in the photo are basically grey — not too surprising, of course — and black is 0,0,0 while white is 255,255,255. Clearly, if the characters were white (as they would have been) then the rest of the plate was some pale colour, but not white. A pale sand colour, perhaps? I’m not up to speed on what was used on British AFVs on Cyprus in the 1960s, though.

Wow Jakko that’s given me some more investigating to do

 

[Jakko]

I think Accurate Armour do one.

They do indeed.

 

[Mickc1440]

I’ve made contact with the Household Cavalry museum who just might be able to help

 

[Scratchbuilder]

Mick, the vehicles would be painted in Light Stone. (sand yellow), or bronze green.....
The arm of service sign background might have been Black over Red diagonal, with Black at the top and right.

Credit Royal Horse Guards.

Credit Alamy, showing Ferets in Cyprus 1963.
AA are doing the Airfix Ferret plus their own decal sheet and etch set from their own Ferret.
Hope this helps
Mike.

 

[Mickc1440]

Mick, the vehicles would be painted in Light Stone. (sand yellow), or bronze green.....
The arm of service sign background might have been Black over Red diagonal, with Black at the top and right.
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Credit Royal Horse Guards.
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Credit Alamy, showing Ferets in Cyprus 1963.
AA are doing the Airfix Ferret plus their own decal sheet and etch set from their own Ferret.
Hope this helps
Mike.

Great pics Michael, by the time of the last pic my dad had been demobbed and was in the police and even better he’d had me for a year

 

[Jakko]

the vehicles would be painted in Light Stone.

That fits with it being darker than the white on the number plates, but still light enough that you might think it’s white in black-and-white photos.