I had some excess nose parts from a couple of the 1/48th scale Revell Bf-110 kits and kept wondering what I could do with them and before I forget, thank you to Ron Fulce (sotoolslinger) for sending me that Bf-110 kit which got me to looking for another one just to pull this off.
I finally found my Muse this morning and went about turning the nose pieces into a pair of gun pods. The nose on the standard Bf-110 has a pair of machine gun barrels mounted at the top and a pair 20mm cannon blast ports on the bottom. The night fighter version does away with the two machine guns so the common denominator between them is the 20mm cannons blast ports which are large enough to pass for a rocket launcher tube if you let your imagination get away from you.
Mating the two nose pieces together resulted in an odd looking shape that has a rather pronounced hump in the center. I did some serious sanding to get rid of most of the raised surface features on the pods and the end result as seen in the attached images taken with the camera feature on my Droid-X will give you an idea of what they look like. Not sure if these will qualify as a model but hey, I have picked up plastic, used some glue and sanded the bejeesus out of the things and I am pleased with how they turned out.
As to scale of these gun-n-rocket pods? 48th works for me but they could also be used on a 1/32nd or 1/35th scale helicopter if you can figure out how to hang them to point in the right direction
:)
***the thumbnail images look better than the full size image
***Image number four was taken with my Nikon Digital SLR on a short tripod.