However, I recently produced two heavier weapons used by British soldiers during the Cold War years: the L16 81mm mortar and the 84mm Carl Gustav anti-tank weapon.
The mortar was built from a resin kit produced by a chap called Tommy Gough (not his real name). While accurate and properly scaled it needed a little tidying up and painting/weathering to give it a more realistic appearance.
It's missing a couple of adjustment wheels - the supplied ones were cast in uncured resin and no matter what I did the paint wouldn't dry, so I need to make new ones.
The Carl Gustav was backdated from an old Hot Toys M3 version, as used by US forces at present. I needed to backdate it to the M2 as used by the British Army from the 1960s to the 1980s.
It meant stripping the Hot Toys item back to the tube and then rebuilding, replacing and adding details as I went.
It turned out quite well.
Together with the mortar...
