Big BMP bodging

One of the joys - for me at least - of the Little Cold Wars project is the need hunt down, adapt and ultimately bodge many of the AFVs required.  One such is the BMP - without which no Cold War Commie army would be properly equipped.
A couple of months ago I happened to spot on the Castles of Tin blog a card model of a BMP in 1/48 scale.  I speculated the required $1.99 and received the pdf of BMPs in both sand and green finishes.  Card models, however, are not really my thing being much too fiddly to build and fragile when completed.  Following my recent outbreak of shipbuilding I had a flash of inspiration and chopped up more foam and balsa to make the basic BMP shape round which I then wrapped parts of the pdf printed onto white 100gsm card.  The turret was more of a challenge but I eventually resorted to the lid from on old pot of Humbrol acrylic with a gun barrel made from part of a bamboo skewer and Sagger from a cut down 1/144 aircraft missile.  The ensemble was finished off with a good blast of matt spray varnish.  I think they look OK.  The die cast T-55 is included for scale and to add tone...

Oh, and if you have a few spare lids from the original Humbrol acrylic pots I can probably find them some work....