1:35 British Water Cans 1942 (12 pcs)

British cans for water from the year 1942

An accessory for models of Allied equipment and for scenes from a field support area. The water form of the portable container as the dating in the name defines it; the quantity given in the same place is twelve pieces. Behind the offering stands GasPatch models.

Water as a supply of equal importance

In the North African campaign water was rationed per person per day and its transport occupied whole columns. The containers therefore traveled in the same baskets and frames as fuel, only they had to be unmistakably distinguished, so that nobody would pour gasoline into the tea. They served even once their contents were used up, when they became stools, props under a tarpaulin or improvised ballast. On a model they therefore need not lie only neatly lined up.

Distinguishing the containers by color and lettering

Choose a different shade for them than for the fuel pieces in the same scene, by all means a noticeably lighter one, and add a short inscription or a stripe. The contrast between two groups of load gives away at once that the builder thought about the contents, not only about the shape. Apply dust from the top down with a weakly thinned earth pigment, so that the sharp edge of the swages stays apparent; water stains around the neck, by contrast, make with a dark glaze shade without gloss. Leave a couple of pieces lying on their side, as if someone had just taken them down from the cargo bed and had not yet lined them up.

Intended for

• Desert dioramas and supply scenes
• Models of British and Allied vehicles
• Builders who enjoy the small narrative corners of a scene
• Completing a load that is to be plentiful on a vehicle