This is the Airfix WW2 DUKW

I started the model last year, but got bored with it and shelved it for a few months. I went back to it during the Christmas holidays and completed it in January.

I used the original Airfix decals so it represents a vehicle at Arromanches during Operation Overlord in June 1944.

The only original kit parts not used were the tilt, windscreen and machine gun.

Added details: I scratch-built from brass rod, plastic card, rod & strip

• The dipped headlight
• Headlamp guards
• Windscreen, frame and wipers
• The wing mirror
• Those things for rubbing up against the side of ships (or avoidance thereof)
• Those things that the things for rubbing up against the side of ships are tied to, which I suspect might actually be there to lift it out of the water, but maybe not
• Mooring eye and D-ring
  
  

I then sourced some after-market parts:

• Milicast - .50cal machine gun, rifle, Bren gun, rolled-up tarp, sack, day-sacks, helmets
• CMK – “US Cargo for GMC 353” (The large single block of oil drums, boxes, etc.)
• Wespe - crates, sacks, gerry can
• Wee Friends – Ammo boxes
• Crew figures are from Milicast (except the driver - original Airfix) and have been slightly modified, e.g. removal of headphones, replacement of heads, etc.

By: Iain Murray
e-mail: Iain.Murray@ailina.co.uk