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Of course, when you think said you’re done, you remember there’s more to add:
Aside from the firing mechanism, which I made by just gluing a piece of some or another leftover kit part to the underside of the mounting with more stretched sprue up to the trigger lever, I had forgotten I also needed to add electrical wiring. So that required a distributor-type thing (also on the real gun, but not in the location where I put mine) and copper wire for cables. The thick one running off to the bottom of the mount is supposed to represent the power supply cable, and is the same as the others except wrapped in very thin wire. It won’t go anywhere, just run out of sight Then there’s the rectangular funnel-like things at the bottoms of the chutes, which are just more plastic strip filed and scraped into shape.
This is both parts of the turret. To the lower part, I added a power cable too, running to behind where the upper part attaches so it also won’t actually go anywhere but look like it does. The struts are plastic strip, with a triangular frame at the bottom, and the ammo box glued straight to those. I’ll leave the parts separate until after painting, so I can just stick the lids onto the turret and spray it with the rest of the model. The upper mounting needs to be black while the turret is to be green (on the inside anyway). Only after all that will I add the ammo belt and the lower half of the spent casings chute.
Here is the lower part in the main turret:
Aside from the firing mechanism, which I made by just gluing a piece of some or another leftover kit part to the underside of the mounting with more stretched sprue up to the trigger lever, I had forgotten I also needed to add electrical wiring. So that required a distributor-type thing (also on the real gun, but not in the location where I put mine) and copper wire for cables. The thick one running off to the bottom of the mount is supposed to represent the power supply cable, and is the same as the others except wrapped in very thin wire. It won’t go anywhere, just run out of sight Then there’s the rectangular funnel-like things at the bottoms of the chutes, which are just more plastic strip filed and scraped into shape.
This is both parts of the turret. To the lower part, I added a power cable too, running to behind where the upper part attaches so it also won’t actually go anywhere but look like it does. The struts are plastic strip, with a triangular frame at the bottom, and the ammo box glued straight to those. I’ll leave the parts separate until after painting, so I can just stick the lids onto the turret and spray it with the rest of the model. The upper mounting needs to be black while the turret is to be green (on the inside anyway). Only after all that will I add the ammo belt and the lower half of the spent casings chute.
Here is the lower part in the main turret:
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