Hi Brian,
Unfortunately some of my additional duties included being the supply sergeant for my small Military Intelligence detachment in Germany and in my early years as a member of the Specialist-Four Mafia I was among other things, the unit supply clerk, motor maintenance parts clerk, drug testing clerk, company clerk, mail clerk, messenger, laundry clerk, truck driver, MUTT driver/RTO, and radio-teletype operator in a truck mounted message center. As far as logistics go, if it was not nailed down and under hand receipt control it was fair game
I was up until 0300 this morning sanding all of the 75mm ammunition box bits plus some POW cans that I decided would become demolition block charges. The were in two sizes, the small 1-gallon (~4 litre) containers and the larger 5-gallon (20 litre) containers that were in the Academy accessory kit and a few of the smaller 1-gallon containers from a couple of the Tamiya WW2 German Tank Mechanics kit.
I assembled two container types end to end so that the filler holes were opposed at each end of the former container now what-if demolition charge. When the glue dried I went back and sanded the seams smooth on each of the pieces. The end results are some rather long rectangular containers in two different sizes that feature fuze wells at each end. The containers/demolition charges look quite nice in this semi-finished appearance. Converting the container/demolition charge volumes to metric gives me a litre/kilogram weight approximation of 7.6 Kg (17 pounds) for the small tan and grey charges while the larger tan charges would be around 38 Kg (84 pounds) which are both quite substantial charges.
tho
Always remember "P" for "Plenty as part of your demolition formula for achieving spectacular results.
I was up until 0300 this morning sanding on all of those boxes and container shapes, you would think I could get a decent amount of sleep but that was not to be and I was up again at 0900 and out the door around 0930 to go have breakfast in town. From there I was thinking about giving my truck a wash at the local do it yourself car wash but did not have any small change or small bills to effect that without having $20.00 in quarters as the end result. I opted to go to the local sporting goods franchise called the
Sportsman's Warehouse to look for some items that might apply to model building and get some smaller bills or change to wash the truck.
I bought some fishing lure tools that are called an "English Clamp" which are small and easy to use plus a lot cheaper than some of the brand name hobby tools for the same purpose. Plenty of change to cover washing the truck but decided to head home instead and share the images attached instead.
Image 1 - All of the items I worked on until 0300 this morning. A lot of tedious and time consuming sanding. So grateful for the women's cosmetic sections in the local stores that have so many different grit grade foam backed double sided sanding sticks :)
Image 2 - 88mm and 75mm ammunition boxes, plus the 5-gallon containers.
Image 3 - 1-gallon containers from Academy and Tamiya.