Rounds for the 40 mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun in British service. An add-on for artillery positions, for tractors and for the vehicles that carried the weapon on the bed.
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This 40 mm automatic gun came out of a design office in the south of Sweden and in the 1930s it spread so quickly that in the end both warring sides used it. The British built it under license, mounted it on towed carriages, on truck beds and on a tank chassis, and used it to protect convoys and airfields. What is characteristic is above all the handling: the rounds were not fed into the weapon one by one but loaded from above in vertical clips of four, so around a position there were always both full clips and spent empty cases lying about.
A kit of this weapon usually holds one or two clips cast in one piece so that they sit in the feeder, and nothing more. Yet it is precisely the scattered ammunition that turns an artillery position into a scene: crates to one side, clips ready at the loader's feet, empty cases by the carriage. Loose pieces let you build each of those situations separately, and you do not have to sacrifice a part that is missing from the weapon for it. The round cross-section and the drawn base also stand up to a macro photograph, in which a half shape would give itself away at once.
An empty case is lighter and scuffed, while a full round usually has color markings on the head. Do not mix the two states at random; the arrangement should tell where the crew loaded from and where they threw the cases. A few pieces sunk into mud or grass help set the scene into the terrain better than the most carefully lined-up row on a crate.
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