Soooooo for this Boxing Day submission, here's that promised image of my walking path and a duplicate that I turned into a looping over, with a twist, ammo belt or feed chute.

The basic shape of that shallow flattened C is shared in both examples. The simulated ammo feed on the right, simply duplicates the nearest most segment along the curve that drives its final shape, while on the left, the C-shape is continuously extruded to match the bending curve to look like a single piece walking path.

For my planned ammo belt, I can manipulate both the curve driver AND the positioning and rotation of the segments to bend and flow around just like a real belt would. And in a further step, I found that you could parent the channel shape inside of an empty, the empty could deform and bend while the shape inside it would remain untouched. That way the visible stuff won't be warped or deformed in the process of following the curve to look moreso like an ammo belt.

Man... I never knew Blender was this capable! And now I understand why Google, yeah that Google... sold their SketchUp product to Trimble... Even with Ruby Scripting driving SketchUp's amazing powers, it just pales compared to Blender!... That and what's now Trimble's SketchUp... is a subscription service.. so yeah there's that too... and the plugins you need to have sketchup do the things like this which blender can do right upon installation without needing special plugins is FANTASTIC!