It?s sweltering today.
I was actually planning to remove the upside-down fork from my Ducati 996, take it apart, and reinstall it with new slide bushings, new dust caps, oil seals, and fresh oil, but I'm not going to put myself through that right now.
I'd rather keep tinkering with the Roland.
The front windshield and the front machine gun are now in place.
The machine gun, however, isn't the one from the kit - it's a 3D-printed version from Gaspatch.
That said, I carved the triangular mounts between the machine gun base and the fuselage from the kit machine gun, adapted them to the 3D-printed version, and added a good deal more detail to the whole thing.
It won't have an ammunition belt, because I think the empty ammunition feed looks more interesting to the viewer's eye.
I completely reworked this ammunition feed from the kit, added a small backing plate made of plastic card, painted it accordingly, and then attached it to the model with white glue.
I crafted the spent casing ejection tube from a small brass tube that I bent to the correct shape and then chemically blackened.
This time, the Observer has to do without his machine gun (not because I?m too lazy to build it - it was practically finished right in front of me) - no, here, too, I find that the representation of the mount parts is quite sufficient.
I could, however, add the weapon at any time, because I built the mount fork in such a way that I could still fold it up and down even after it's been glued in place.
Servus
Bertl
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