Anyone have any ideas on how to create something that looks like
Marston mat . Gonna need a lot !!!
Unless you want to drill a LOT of holes in a LOT of pieces of styrene strip, I’d go for aftermarket stuff unless price is an object. Each piece of Marsden Mat, or Pierced Steel Planking, has 87 holes in it. I’ve pondered that myself as I get into building my Aleutian Theater airplanes. All of the US fields were Marsden Mat until they got paved with asphalt, and later concrete, near the end of the campaign.
Not sure how many pieces the FlightPath photoetch set has in it:
http://www.djparkins.clara.net/fltpath/fp72_psp.htm
The Verlinden set at Squadron has 10 pieces:
http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=VE0865
These are both for the WW II version, which survives to this day in several new and lighter models.
BACK IN THE OLD DAYS, I USE TO USE 4" X 4" GRILL SCREENS
USED FOR CLEANING GGRILLS, OF COURSE. ANY DECENT
RESTAURANT SUPPLY HOUSE, OR HAVE A BUDDY FROM
McDONALD’S GET YOU SOME. YOU CAN CUT THESE INTO
SCALE STRIPS. OR, COLOR PHOTOCOPY THE ONES THAT
ARE OUT IN THE MARKETPLACE, I’VE SEEN THEM USED FOR
VIETNAM HELO PADS. GOOD LUCK. A.V.G. GUY