Really loving all the crates guys
Any chance of some dimensions?
Fancy having a bash myself
Cheers
Cad
Impressions:
U.S. 35th Inf Tech Sargeant
British Royal Artillery Gunner
Generic SS Mann
Weapons:
Cyma M1A1
ASG Sten MK2
ASG MP40
TM M1911A1
WE Browning High Power
HFC Mauser C96
Mine is 40" long, 12" high and 12" wide externally, so minus 1 or 2 inches internally. It can fit an MP44 (with about 3" to spare) and a PPSh, with plenty of room for ammo, masks etc. It could even probably fit another gun, as long as the gun was thin (perhaps an mp40?)
I made my boxes as long as the longest guns, as deep as the deepest guns and as wide as looked proportionate. 
Mine is 40" long, 12" high and 12" wide externally, so minus 1 or 2 inches internally. It can fit an MP44 (with about 3" to spare) and a PPSh, with plenty of room for ammo, masks etc. It could even probably fit another gun, as long as the gun was thin (perhaps an mp40?)
Yep, mine were made of similar sizes, built to take MP44 length / height and the other to fit MG42 with the butt removed.
To accommodate all you who have posted pics of their fantastic looking crates / boxes / chests, I have changed the title of this thread to 'The Weapons Chest Thread'.
To accommodate all you who have posted pics of their fantastic looking crates / boxes / chests, I have changed the title of this thread to 'The Weapons Chest Thread'.
Impressions:
U.S. 35th Inf Tech Sargeant
British Royal Artillery Gunner
Generic SS Mann
Weapons:
Cyma M1A1
ASG Sten MK2
ASG MP40
TM M1911A1
WE Browning High Power
HFC Mauser C96
Does anywhere sell Field Grey paint? spray or otherwise?
I have some modern british army ammo boxes i want to make more "period"
WW2 Weapons AGM Sten, AGM MP40
Does anywhere sell Field Grey paint? spray or otherwise?
I have some modern british army ammo boxes i want to make more "period"
SoF have some
Field grey Paint Code: TR852
£9.99 a can so not cheap
Cad
Impressions:
U.S. 35th Inf Tech Sargeant
British Royal Artillery Gunner
Generic SS Mann
Weapons:
Cyma M1A1
ASG Sten MK2
ASG MP40
TM M1911A1
WE Browning High Power
HFC Mauser C96
I bough mine from B&Q - 2.5 litres of eggshell will last for ever, I've painted helmet, gas mask tin, modern ammo boxes etc. Their machine will mix RAL colours even if they don't know it! Bizarrely not BS colours though 
Edit: It is RAL 6006 in eggshell oil based paint you need to ask for, not matt emulsion!
To accommodate all you who have posted pics of their fantastic looking crates / boxes / chests, I have changed the title of this thread to 'The Weapons Chest Thread'.
My contribution a fantastic weapon/chest...
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
General James M. Gavin
CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
(although strictly speaking not home-made out of wood nor even WW2-ish but at least she looks well put together)
To accommodate all you who have posted pics of their fantastic looking crates / boxes / chests, I have changed the title of this thread to 'The Weapons Chest Thread'.
My contribution a fantastic weapon/chest...
I would love to borrow a spare mag off her, only if I could personally get it out of her box 
Well not as visually appealing as the last entry and not 'weapons chests' but for transportation of other equipment to the game, 2 new chests bodged out of some fencing material being thrown out from a nursing home The rest of the wood went to my girlfriend for her woodburner.
Hopefully though should make any ingame camping look a bit more period, even though I have gone for the 'Indiana Jones' look 
I should point out that the bread crate in the foreground was not made by myself but commercially available 
Lookin good
Heh. some more to add to the thread....
Three same-shaped boxes stacked - made from purchased unplanned timber. The markings are fairly authentic for 303 ammo, Nobel explosive and field dressings. (Brit players at Operation Ariel might recognise them as we humped 'em about as part of the game. I think we started off with 10 rounds each until we found an ammo stash!)
A-top them is a box Kermit gave me that I use for personal items - shaving, smoking, camera/film, playing cards, reading matter etc.
On the left a Brit ration crate (made from a blown-down fence and some bits of ply) that I use for tableware, cleaning materials and the potty!
On the right a crate made from an old pallet that holds six paraffin lamps along with spare paraffin etc.
Excellant, you can never have enough chests! 
Very nice
Got a few boxes for different things but this is the most practical
thats lovely Gordon,the partitioning looks really good,we may have to do some horse tradeing
armoury
m1a1 Thompson,sten mk2,mp40,stg44,sterling,mk2 bren gun,lee Enfield no4 mk1,Mauser Kar98, Walther ppk,smith and Weston m10 and Mauser m712
Give me a big enough hammer and a place to stand and I could fix the world.
i'll kill a man in a fair fight or if i think he's going to start a fair fight or over a woman or.......
a problem shared is a problem halved ,but an advantage shared is no advantage at all
if a job's not worth doing then its certainly not worth doing well
There are some really smart chests/boxes being put on this thread
