Hello!
It's been a long time. I finally got to take some pictures of the bits that will wrap up my model. So on the first photo we've got a few 7,62 ammo boxes made from AFV Club's amo box kit, a USMC gas can and those funny things in the middle of the top row are so called autoloader lifters - tools specific to the 40mm Bofors cannon. I soldered themout of copper wire about 0.5mm in diameter. In the bottom of the photo there's the folding stretcher that I scratchbuilt - I started out with two thin wooden poles - cut the handles on them, then made some fabric out of a gutted teabag and finished it off with the hinges and feet made out of copper sheet metal:
Next, I also needed a belt with some equipment on it, and a M60 machine gun. The belt was made out of the same teabag that I mentioned earlier. The canteen and the ammo pouches came from a Dragon figure kit. As for the MG, I wanted to have it under a tarp, so I didn't want to "waste" the excellent AFV Club part. I just cut off the mount, and took an old Tamiya M60, shortened a bit to be dimensionally correct. I also had a spare Dragon bipod for it. The result is shown over the AFV Club M60:
I painted the belt, the MG and the time came to do the tarp. I made it out of Pawelite - it's a material that I developed especially for making tarps. It consists of aluminium foil sandwiched between two layers of tisue. Holds the shape and creases very well, takes paint nicely and has this "fabric" texture. The tarp is painted on the insides for now:
Then I put the tarp on the MG, still have to paint it on the outsides. The MG is on a temporary holder:
And that's what I have so far - hope you like it, thanks for reading and have a nice day!
Paweł