The wooden crate is the standard two round packing for 105mm shells. Inside the crate are two black fiber tubes which hold the rounds.

At 1/72 they will be tiny.

Glad to have been of help. Anything else just pull my lanyard!!

Looking good Jan. Can't wait to see them painted.

I also can't believe you're gonna do a vignette and add tiny ammo crates?! Actually after seeing that microscopic piece in the alligator clip I can believe that.

My hat's off!

The clip in the picture you mention is holding the elevation and traverse hand wheels and is actually three parts. About the same size is the sight and even smaller is an adjustment knob on the towing end if the trail.

I've begun the painting and it (and the size of the kit) are presenting their own issues. I'm having to use a very, very thin brush with diluted paint to do the base NATO green. The problem is that there are so many miniscule crevices (especially in and around the gun cradle) that the paint from the airbrush just isn't or can't reach. I'm also reviewing all the images of the gun I have to see if there isn't a detail or two that I might easily add.

Now to talk to an ophthalmologist about correcting these crossed eyes!

Cheers,
Jan

That miniscule bit is made up of 3 parts??? Wholly crap!
AJ is right--that kind of work is intimidating.

pAnd speaking of the eye doctor, you do use some kind of magnifying glass or a jeweler' s loop?

hi there treadgeek

cant wait to see these ammo crates your surgery instruments are impressive =]
sorry if ive lead you on about the 4ton bedford towing the gun i have only told what i have seen.
if roberts right then take his mode of transport and good luck

tony

have you got the link for the images you found of the 4tonne bedford towing the l119.

as i cant remember very well as when i saw the bedford towing the l119 it was on the way to yorkshire on my holidays but yet this was a long time ago. and my 5 years with the army cadet force we only used the 4 tonne bedford for troop carrying us into excersise.

have you decided on a diorama for your l119 and bedford ??

My trusty pair of enhanced vision devices. They are five power.

Some of the tools of 1/72 surgery.

My favourite and indispensable tool seen gripping a Waffen SS officer. It is plunger operated like a syringe and has five expanding claws at it's business end.

've hit that age where I'm gonna need some optical assistance. I've been looking for a set of those lenses (pun fully intended).

Your toolset is impressive. Pinching tweazers just don't cut it for me anymore. Parts have sprang loose, flown across the room only to be sacrificed to the carpet monster.

Hi Jan, just caught up with your build of these guns. Great work in such a small scale. Regarding the picture you posted, those soldiers and vehicles aren't British. I would say Dutch, as they use a very similar DPM pattern on their clothes, however the boots, berets and capbadges are not British.

As others have said the FC101 Landrover was the official gun tractor before the Pinzgauer. However, you can never say never in this game, and no-one could say that a 4 tonner never towed a light gun.

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Tom, me bad! I should have downloaded the images into my iPhoto but I didn't. The first I tried to go back to gave me the dreaded "404" error and the other is saying something about temporarily unavailable. IIRC, in both pictures the Bedford had green and black camo. One gun was plain green and the other was green/black. I do have one downloaded photo that proves how necessity is the mother of invention as the howitzers "appear" to have been towed by what looks like Unimog trucks. (I'm no expert I just compared a model of one with the picture.) Perhaps Robert (Navyelephant) will clear up the vehicle identity.



You can see a larger size image here.

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I trust your recollection and it seems to be somewhat supported by the comments of the builder at link you provided in an earlier posting.

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I am still mulling over potentials for a vignette. Perhaps an emplacement similar to the box art of the kit. A local modeller has pointed out that these guns are possibly early production variants as they have a two baffle muzzle brake where virtually all the pictures that I've seen have a single baffle. That implies to me that if I team a gun up with the Bedford then the time frame would be the 1980's?

Cheers,
t_g

Did you use a paint brush to apply the metal color to the muzzle? Or just drop a bit off of the tip of a needle?

My favourite and indispensable tool seen gripping a Waffen SS officer. It is plunger operated like a syringe and has five expanding claws at it's business end.

hey there! what's the name of this tool, and could you direct me to somewhere i can purchase it?

With the new settings the green does look less Warsaw Pact-ish, but the photos seem a bit grainier. Would more back-lighting help? As you noticed I have the same issue with my PAS. When it is set to Macro with the flash set to 'Low' the details are crisp and clear but the colors get washed out.

The tri-color scheme looks good. Did you apply the black and brown with that same 1/72 scale brush?

Nice progress,The coloring makes it better.