Once again as I’ve been cleaning up around my hobby room I came across another gem hidden amongst all the old sprues was the shelter from the old Italeri M 925 kit that I built years ago. I built the truck as a standard cargo truck and stuck the sprue for the shelter in the spares box where it has sat forgot about for years. And having found pictures before of comms shelters being used in Vietnam as ground shelters, I decided to build this up real quick.
Then I added a tarp made from tissue and white glue with a couple of toothpicks as tent poles to make a makeshift bivouac off the side. And a couple of pieces from some old resin kits to make hold downs for the ropes and a little paint and weathering and it’s all set.
And now the tedious part of sandbagging it 3/4 of the way up and then adding a layer to on the roof with some scale plywood to protect the roof from caving in due to weight but those things were not left on sheltered you know you had a either sandbags leaning up against it the whole way around or you had a like a bit of a trench set around it with sandbags on the outside allowing a room to maneuver around the building.
