HQ 1st (British) Corps in the field c.1971 - 1:300 scale

A brief update as I tackle the latrines!

I had to rebuild the one I’d tried earlier, it just didn’t quite work. Then, as is the way with personal builds - or at least with me - I started remembering even more.

Out side the karzi was a 6’ table replete with aluminium washing bowls, a jerrican of water and Army-issue soap - or at least there was for the officers’ one. Manufacturing a 6’ table in this scale nearly finished me off. Several attempts using stretched sprue for the legs just didn’t work, so in the end I decided on lengths of fuse wire, and plastic card. The bowls were from lengths of plastic rod. The whole just about discernible in the pics below:

For the historically minded:

and some Army-issue soap:

And now I either need a lie-down, or a trip to the opticians - or possibly both!

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Around that time - the 70’s - in the NZ Army, same thing was done with M1 steel pots instead of bowls, sitting in holes cut out between 2 6’‘or 8’’ wide boards, sitting on a trestle, about 6 pots long. With the change over to Kevlar pots, that’s a sight which has disappeared.

Mal

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Well, at least back then we did not suffer from D & V, which was a scourge decades later when I was in Iraq. Basic hygiene I suppose.

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