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Stowage, baskets, bedrolls and tarps

Recently, people have asked about making bedrolls and tarpaulins, stowage and turret bustles. This all came together when Brigade produced some stowage pieces and Ainsty have produced prototypes of their stowage baskets in etched brass So a tutorial seemed to be in order. Baskets Basket in many materials can be made, including resin, white metal or even from scratch, but the open ‘mesh’ of etched brass is hard to beat. The Ainsty ones come on a sheet with one small basket, two medium sized ones and a large one with a curved rear to fit the Blower tanks curves turret, although there are trim lines to show where it may be cut to fit other shapes. The sheet also has some panels and dish aerials to fill in wasted spaces on the fret. The two sides of the main basket fold up and the rear folds and has two small tabs at either end which fold over and grip the basket edges slightly. Then, just dip the corner very lightly in a small puddle of cyano glue to fix them together. The best way to stick them is with the thin etch just ender the bottom of the turret (it doesn’t affect the rotation at all) and just touch the edges of the side panels with some more cyano glue to fix them to the turret’s edge. The baskets can be cut slightly to fit them to the Blower Command tank plus other vehicles. The medium and small baskets can find homes on many vehicles - I put some on some Brigade British vehicles, as can be seen here. Being thin brass, they can be quite easily customised to whatever is needed.

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