I have vacation time that needs to be used before the end of the year, so I'm taking off from work for the rest of this week. This enables me to spend more time building for a few days.
Yesterday, I built the gas tank using Koloman's photos as reference.
Here it is in the frame. I also added the ammo bin & framework behind it for test fitting purposes.
Only a small portion of the Schwarzlose guns will be seen once the model is closed up, & my plans were to just add bits of plastic to represent them. But, as usual, I got a bit carried away. I worked on one last week, adding this & that, & ended up knowing that there was no way I was going to do all of this again on another one. So, I made a mold & cast some resin copies. Here are the copies with pieces of 0.011" wire inserted for the barrels. I took quite a few photos, but not many of looked too good because of the translucency of the resin on such small pieces.
Here they are after a wash of gray watercolor which made them show up in photos a bit more.
Ammo bin details & other interior details await that I hope to get to soon.
Steve
