Some years ago I started using margarine instead of regular butter. In
Switzerland we had nice butter boxes which I always kept, as once cleaned, they
were perfect to store a lot of small stuff.
Here in the USA we use this light Butter too. So my wife asked me if I
would like to keep the empty box like I made it in Switzerland.
As the bottom and the corners are not flat like the one in Switzerland I
was thinking for what I could use it.
I just had ordered some tanks and other stuff from Wargames South in GB,
so I had this DUKW on my hand.
My new DUKW had to go swimming. With a piece of paper I tried to find
out the inside dimensions of the box to cut out the later water surface. For
the water surface I used a piece of soft foam.
Once this was done, the surface got a painting with a mixture of blue,
black and green.
After drying I had to cut out the dimensions for the DUKW. Here it is
very helpful to cut it first out on a piece of paper so that nothing can go
wrong with the foam.
The water itself was made with window colors. For small pieces of water
it works fine and gives a bit of wave structure too. As I do not removed the top
paper layer on the foam, the paper got wet again by the window color and waved
a bit too.
Parallel I started building the goods for the truck. I decided to make
one part of the loading out of small wood pieces which I just painted in light
brown. The second piece is something I found inside my spare parts box. I
believe it's something from the scale 1/87, a piece of coal or so.
Once painted in brown, it's now my second shipment of wooden boxes.
The driver lost his legs during the operation „painting", but there
was no space for his legs anyway. He is
from an old tank kit I bought some time ago on eBay. I gave him no life jacket
as I saw pictures from WWII were they had none. So this made the painting much
easier.
My final problem has been the white on the top of the waves. Here I
tried a lot, checked a lot of marine pages but nothing worked. So finally I
worked again with the window color which is, at the beginning white before it
turns into transparent.
The hit on the watersurface is simply made with cotton batting.
