As I remember I've promised (again) an update with some work progress for 'tommorow' about four days ago sooo here it is:
After an old paintwork has been almost completely removed, some saw vs plastic work was done
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Then, after cutting of the original engine nacelle there was an issue with wing flexibility. To solve the problem some plastic profiles were added to strengthen the construction and for further preparation of the base for Tigercat engine...
Few shots of 60% of model (the rest is in Artoor's hands
) after putting together wings with new engine nacelles:
- one of the engines (glued & painted by Artoor):
- bomb bay inside the wing:
Main armament (another 2 Browning's are in the way), let's pretend that those German 'Bordkanone' barrels for Ju-87 are, as a matter of fact, two 40 mm Bofors guns (just for the sake of plausibility
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Probable localization of 'Bofors' gun (the bulk of weapon mechanism is going to use one of bomb bays areas inside the wing):
- first variant:
- second variant (barrel of gun is partially hidden inside the wing structure):
@ Tophe:
Thank's for that twin boom versions :) To be honest, together with Artoor, we have been thinking about making similar fuselage to P-61 Black Widow or P-38 Lightning at the beginning, but It's just too much of transformation for that model and the original features of construction could be lost in the process.
But who knows what will hapend in future
I still have about 3 to 4 poorly made 1/72 kits in stash so maybe one of them will be remade in that fashion