All,
My lovely wife got me this great WNW kit for Christmas. It's incredible...as have all of the WNW been...and I started on some sub assemblies. First, here is the box and contents!
I decided to start on the rear gunner's position. The detail is fine, but you do need to carefully remove mold seams along the parts to make them sparkle. The drum is three parts: front and back and the ammo belt. Looks cool. I only drilled out the telescopic site ends.
The magazine was kind of hard to put on as the belt feed didn't fit too well into the gun port and there is no real positive attachment for the actual mag to the gun body. But, it fiddled in the end and after some careful painting, washing and dry brushing with sanded-off bits of a silver pencil, here is the result complete with the gunner's cockpit ring. It all rotates and moves beautifully, by the way!
Great start and it's one I've wanted for a long time. Hard to believe a state of the art plastic kit of this cool machine is here. It will look great next to the Bristfit! I also just found a plan source for the old stick and tissue Halberstadt from the ol' Guillow's line. I think I'll make it in tandem with this plastic version.
Cheers and thanks for looking,
Dan
