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No That's not the wayI work it, but it might work, I'll try it some day. What I do is I'll use a hot knife to melt the plastic to build up an original piece. Then refine it with dremal, sandpaper and carving. Things like canteens...ect I'll make a silecone mold and heat the plastic in toaster oven till it conforms to the mold.  

Thanks for you'r wonderful comments.

Very nice...so do you dissolve the sprue in liquid cement and work from it in that state???

Thanks for the input guys: I do scratch build exclusivley these days, not that I'm  some super modeler or anything like that. It's just a lot cheaper this way. 

Nice catch on the sling,I'll put one on today. 

You should add a sling to the rifle. The USMC went into VN with the m1and later the M14 with the leather strap.

Beautiful work as usual!

Nicely done! Do you normally build from scratch? That's very impresive.