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Thanks for the comments.
I’m considering some poetic licenses 
in this building.
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It’s all your model. Enjoy! 
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This guy will be drinking a hot beverage, holding the thermos in one hand and the mug in the other. Both coming from IDF Accessories by AK Interaktive
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This other one will hold some fish in one hand and the fishing rod in the other.
Since the original figure had his hand in his pocket, I put one from the ET Model P35-320 Hands for Figures Type 1 set.
I’m still making some adjustments to get the arm to the correct size.
The only thing that would justify the biger left arm would be that he spent his adolescence as a left-hander. 
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In the meantime, I managed to make progress in creating silicone molds to copy resin pieces.
I was happy with the result of this reproduction:
Original piece
Finished mold
First copy
This weekend I have to re-mold the tires.
Since imports are virtually at a standstill due to the tax inspectors’ strike, buying the excellent set of DEF Model wheels is out of the question. 
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While it may be too late for this build, (interesting by the way) a little over three decades ago there was an article in one of the model railroad mags about making your own corrugated gondola cars, as there were non available back then. I tried it and it was reasonably successful. I took pieces of plastic currugated material, cut them to shape, and attached them between the vertical supports.
Obviously the interior should have had it as well but it would have been way too thick. A simple load of rusty junk hid the interior side of the panels.
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Agreed @18bravo I think it’s achievable to do the corrugated sides. There’s a range of materials that may suit, depending on scale. The interior of the sides of some cardboard boxes may work but I’ve also seen the interior of ‘core flute’ posters may be ok too. We’ve just had an election here and posters of that type of material were widely used but I noticed two sizes of core flute interior, the smaller of which looked good for this scale. Maybe Rafael can consider that for a future version.
Rafael the figures are looking really nice! Good start to getting realistic postures!
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