I recently bought some plastic sheets and experimented a little. As I need a lot of ammo and supply crates in my current D-Day Diorama project, I thought it might be a much cheaper solution to build them myself. I am pretty happy with the results plus it was a lot of fun to build them, not to mention that i learned a lot of new techniques building these crates myself. Anyhow the crates were airbrushed with Tamiya olive drab paint. Then I applied a "washing" with heavily thinned brown oil paint. The final touches were added with highlights done with olive drab and natural wood (valejjo) using a dry brush technique. The wood grain was done with an old cutter blade.
Here some pictures.
This is the crate prior to painting.
Here a finished one.
Here I took the crate that came with the Italerie kit 105mm howitzer, I cut the cross bars on top of the lid and the rods on the sides to size, and scratched the wood grain in the main box and the add ons.
I am more than happy to answer any questions! Comments are always welcome!
Cheers
Heli
