I am working on a second Tamiya M1025 HMMWV. This time I am converting it to an M1043 used by the USMC in Iraq, 2004. I am scratch building the tea cup turret and half moon doors from plastic card.
A few examples of the doors and turret that I will be building.
Here are the doors cut from plastic card. The other doors are the Tamiya M1046 armored doors. The M1043 also used the armored doors but I wanted something different so I went with the half moon doors. Those armored doors will be going on a different Tamiya M1025 also being converted to another USMC M1043.
I added some bolts from an Academy M1A2 that someone gave me as a parts kit so I cut the bolts off the Academy M1A2 and used them on the half moon doors.
I used staples for the door handles. The door on the left is from the Italeri M998 IED. The M998 IED HMMWV used the same half moon doors. Mine are close enough.
Here is the tea cup turret. I cut it to shape then heated it in hot water then placed in an old Model Master paint jar to curve it to shape.
Here it is dry fitted to the weapons ring.
Here are the scratch built half moon doors and tea cup turret dry fitted to a different Tamiya M1025 to check the fit. The tea cup turret is a bit too high so needs cutting down to the proper height.