This looks great! What did you use for the missile nosecones? Looks like trimmed plastic knitting needles.
Are you going to have reloads on the tank as well?
The nose cones are from the Airfix 1/72 Buccaneer Martel missiles, you have the choice of Radar or visual guidance nose options
Yes, it will have reloads, albeit 1950's manual reload type.
Bench time finally.
With the Easter break coming up and what appears to be pretty awful weather, there is a very good chance this will get finished in the next few days.
So.. here we go af few progress pix
Completed the hull and most of the turret and missile mounts. The boxes below the missile are onboard reload/s, but like the Malkara Hornet, reloading included a bit of kit building as all the fins and bits had to be fitted as part of the reload process.
Turret bits and pieces. The guidance optical gizmo is retractable.. 1950's gimmickry.
Fitted between the reload stowage box and the turret side is a rack for the reloads main fins. My CES says the rear fins are in the box
My thought bubble creature is now saying that I need some missile handling rails/gubbins to ease moving these huge missiles (somewhere between 70-90KG depending on which source you prefer to believe) from the boxes to the launch pylons. We shall see
If the other Commander hatch leaf appears in any of your carpets due to the space/time and/or black hole anomalies that devour small model parts, please let me know.
