All the boxes were cut and filed out of lumps of scrap aluminum.
Originally I was going to use 10 ba screws to resemble the lid retainers but they came out a bit big. So I went back to the little screws and nuts for glasses repairs to make up bolt looking retainers, M1.4 Bolt looking pins I used on the wheel hubs. These screws will come in handy to make studs too, to hold down the P clips and interconnecting cabling or trunking.
Making the towing electrical socket and convoy lamp box from same scrap, some round brass solid, chain from an cheap bracelet off the car boot. and sticky backed aluminum for the center of the tow box cap. The cap is not accurate but I found in the past too much detail is often wasted, especially when I'vepainted them. The convoy lamp will work with a miniature 12v warm white LED. (All lighting on the model will be 12v it reduces the problems when too many voltages are used).
When I checked positioning on the rear plate. The boxes appeared cramped in against the exhaust box. I guessed the exhaust box is about 10mm to wide. A reliable source tells me that I am pretty close, another little change will have to be made to the exhaust tail pipes as they are retained by three bolts not six. This is a blessing in disguise as I was going to replace the huge M3's with M2's anyway. So this weekend I'll chomping at the exhaust box and re-drilling the exhaust tail pipe mount.
I don't get out much at the moment
