The rear ramp is now finished and added to the model.
The basic ramp is simple enough, though the pulleys for the cable are irritating: they’re really just too small to thread the cable through correctly, as it needs to turn a 90 degree corner around the pulley, but it’s very difficult to actually do that with the kit parts. Still, I managed reasonably well in the end.
One thing I did differently, was to cut the cable in two and add one length to each side of the ramp, instead of threading it through like AFV Club recommends. I doubt it will actually run through the pulleys, so it’s simpler to do it this way, if you ask me.
I also replaced the kit-provided plastic hooks with copper wire ones glued into holes drilled in the ramp, for durability.
Here’s the ramp down, with the cable tied in place:
I built a cleat in both of the rear storage compartments and tied the cable around them, as I’m not good at getting knots in ropes exactly where they should be, so this way gave me some ability to adjust the tension. Once I was happy with that, I superglued the rope together, so it will hopefully never come loose
I still need to scratchbuild one of the eight hinge brackets for the ramp, as I managed to lose one when it flew from my fingers
Despite searching for over a quarter of an hour, I didn’t manage to locate it.
On to the Polsten gun:
These are the basic gun and mounting from the Scale Line kit. I replaced the barrel by a length of 1.6 mm aluminium tube, rather than use the flimsy resin one provided. The mounting shown here is only three parts, and though one of the fore-and-aft strips is broken, it needs to be covered in a tarp so I’m not going to fix it.
What remains to be done is add the gun to the mounting, then add the sights and traverse handle, and somehow make a 60-round drum magazine. The kit only has a ten-round box, but the real vehicle had the drum. Luckily it will mostly be covered by the tarp too, so I can probably just add the basic shape from some scrap material instead of having to build a detailed magazine.
Here’s the base mounting it goes onto:
The kit provided the front strip too, but it was broken in two and not straight, so it was simpler to replace it by a bit of brass L-profile.
I had also added the boat hooks on the cab roof, but realised these interfered with the mounting, and then couldn’t see the hooks in photos of other Buffalos, so I removed them again.