Every kit i make has either a .50, .30, 34 or a 42 but never any Ammo belts I scratchbuilt some once for amark4 but it was teious and never looked very convincing

real good leaves in 1/35 scale in plastic

All of that after market resin (and maybe injection molded plastic) stuff that I would like to see...

For a start, how about bulk ammunition supplies, the sort of stuff you would find on a pallet in an ASP prior to being broken down into basic individual loads. Those very same boxes with the wire bails and rope handles that are a pain in the butt to break apart and maintain accountability for when you are at the firing range and when returning the expended ammunition residue back into the ASP afterwards.

Yakkka yagga yagga!!! Man that is some list!! I'll be back next week after having chewed it over

P.S. I think it is great.

Jacko


The sort of packaging I am talking about is the thin plywood and wood frame boxing materials used to "box" up a pair of ammunition boxes containing 100 rounds each of .50 caliber ammunition or two boxes of 5.56mm or three boxes of 7.62mm NATO ammunition. Same thing for the TOW and Dragon Missiles which are packaged one to a box in the same type of container.

Anti-Tank mines, Anti-Personnel mines, shaped charges, cratering charges, bulk explosives, and bangalore torpedoes. All of these items need to be represented as individual issue and in bulk issue containers, need to have bunches of this stuff to represent the Combat Engineers and obstacle breachers or to make a start on a decent ASP or unit supply point.

Anyone fancy a 1/35th scale cardboard "tri-wall" storage box on a 48"X48" warehouse pallet? Great for fillig up the back end of that empty 35th scale cargo truck...

B54Y SADM with optional large ALICE rucksack and the storage container in open and closed versions with and without SADM inside. Also need the required shaped charge to disable the physics package in case of mission abort (size/shape in 35th scale is roughly equal to a 110grain .30 caliber carbine jacketed round nose bullet). For those of you that want to recreate the ultimate "precision guided weapon..."

Standard size GSA 48"X48" warehouse pallets for stacking stuff in the back of the truck or on the ground. Palletizing your loads prior to deployment would also reqire the need for some standard 108" X 108" aircraft cargo pallets complete with the cargo netting and the big plastic bags to cover it all and weather proof it. Let's not forget the little self sticking "shipping data enclosed" envelopes that are attached to the outside of the load.

Storage containers for things like the M24 sniper rifle, Night Vision Goggles, Thermal and Infra-red Imaging sets, Stinger & Redeye MANPAD missiles, mortar ammunition.

Depot level storage containers for jet engines, gas turbines, diesel engines, helicopter blades, helicopter transmissions, and other depot level type storage containers.

An accurate rough terrain forklift and a warehouse type forklift, something that would be necessary for all of that palletized stuff needing to be loaded in to the back of the HEMTTs, 5ton, & duece and a halfs.

Some accurate HE and Spotting projectiles, powder cans & powder bags for the M65 280mm cannon (the old Renwal and Revell release both are in dire need of something that looks like it belongs in the breech).

GP Small, GP Medium, and Squad tents with tent stove and upended 5 gallon gas can for the fuel supply.

POL tanks and the hose and pump unit for the back end of the 5 ton truck to represent the often seen but seldom appreciated POL truck that was usually associated with units that had both MOGAS & Diesel fuel requirements (before the HMMWV & CUCV).

A pair of small 10-15Kw Generators mounted on a trailer to be towed by a 2 1/2 ton or 5 ton truck.

A 50-100Kw Generator mounted on a trailer to be towed by the 2 1/2 ton or 5 ton truck.

The "lister" bag with mulitple spigots to dispense water and the tent pole tri-pod frame usually seen with this bag hanging from the center.

A modern round-cylinder shaped and not so modern oval-cylinder shaped "water buffalo" tank trailer.

1 1/2 ton cargo trailers for towing behind the 5ton and 2 1/2ton truck.
3/4 ton cargo trailers for towing behind the 3/4 and 5/4 ton trucks and HMWWV series vehicles.

RC-292 antenna mast kit with separate antenna sections and components and and an erected antenna mast assembly. Backpack SATCOM radio with antenna and other high-speed-low-drag commo stuff. And for the retro fit, how about the old hand crank "gibson girl" generator rig and portable AM radio as used by the OSS and Jedburgh teams infiltrated into Europe and the Balkans.

ATV's, snow mobiles and ahkio sleds in resin or injection molded plastic and. (I remember one of the 1/25th scale MPC kits of a Pontiac Bonneville that could be customized into a Pontiac equivalent of the El Camino, it came with an ahkio sled as part of the kit. I thought the ahkio sled was pretty cool, it lasted a lot longer than the model cars, but now it is lost and I sure wish I could find another one. Ahkio that is, screw the Pontiac).

An affordable LANCE Missile system in injection molded plastic (just the trailer/launcher (great sling load for a Blackhawk...)) Missile warhead with shipping container, missile motor with shipping container, and fins with shipping container.

An affordable modern large bulldozer with and without the armored cab in injection molded plastic.

An affordable dump truck in injection molded plastic.

To go along with the above dump truck, how about a decent front end loader/skip loader and the small engineer vehicle based on the UNIMOG that was acquired for use by the Airborne and Air-Mobile forces.

In the interest of not boring the reader and to elicit some intelligent feedback, I will halt my wish list at this point in time...

r,

Jeffry Fontaine
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