Shaun, Yes the chisel like hammer marks, when I made my gunners front plate i devised a method of applying those marks, get a fairly large size quality new hardedend allen key, hold the short bent over end in your hand and lay the other end against the plate with one of the allen key ridges touching the plate, hold it at angle and hit the opposite allen key ridge with a good size lump hammer once only. What you get then on the plate is a triangle indent mark, do the same thing 180 degrees round from your first mark, carefully aligning the allen key to the first mark. What you end up with is a almost exact replication of those marks, practice first on a piece of metal to perfect it, where gloves when doing it, the allen key will be no use after making say 20 marks but you can then use the remaining ridges on it until all the allen key points are peaned over and then it's no use for anything.
Go to a car boat sale and get aload of allen keys for next to nothing.
A little time consuming but it is the detail in a restoration that matters.
Kevin.
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