It is a long time since I have not been posting here, so I will show you what I currently have on my workbench.
It is a huge scratch conversion I started, needing two kits of Matchbox / Revell SA330 Puma in 1/32nd.
Here we go :
The dashboard
First fuselage surgery step
Cockpit arrangement (no glued parts yet)
Armor protected cockpit seats
Windows and doors are different on the Caracal so they need to be opened…
New approximate future profile in red.
The blue writing says "cuttin doors and opening windows"
Metal (aluminium) cab floor progress
Fuel tanks stoppers
Here we go with da cab ceiling
Fuslage foot holes
At last, a family pic…
And I could not stop this w/o showing you I have still worked on the ceiling
Ceiling details
Left fuselage console
Side armor plates for gunners. Masked ceiling neon lights
Right cab console, still missing some instruments to be added
Armor plate is positioned for the picture
Pearls are "pushed" a little more in the ceiling than before
The floor AWA the roof are now attached to the left fuselage half :
Then here you are with a mandatory device in the EC725 cab while on duty …
Then you got the mech seat, moving forward and rear on rails. It came from the Revell 1/32 EC-145 kit, barely identical to the one I needed. It was a spare in the box per the EC145 cab version I plan :
Then an electronics board where are gathered all the necessary controls, screens, to service the ECM/flares devices :
Front
Side
Then come the side MG stands. The machine guns on the pic is an infantry MG, will have to undergo lotsa changes to depict a FN MAG 58, but the base is sound. The plasticard hamburger is the basic beginning for the MG casings tray
Then do come the work on the ammo boxes racks…
0.25 and 0.5 mm plasticard as a raw mat :
Assembly
After glueing them I had to test fit the ammo boxes themselves.
Blend "skull white" and "chaos black" from Citadel colors to paint the racks grey and boxes black :
Hereunder is the result
Place trial…
Seems to be Ok, huh ?
That is a lot of pics, hope you enjoy it
Just feel free to leave your comments,
Best regards,
Richard
