Hallo friends...
after a long time here is finally an update, I had gone forward but had no time and energy to upload the images and organize a post, well, now here I am...
I analyzed a couple of pictures:
and prepared the Gaspatch MG with personal modifications.
The shield under the gun's mouth is a brass PE provided along with the 2 Vickrs kit by Gaspatch, the lever with handle was made by me with electric copper wire and the white things are plasticard added by me.
The front supporting pieces are not even in length, they have already been modified to a more acceptable and even dimension.
I understood just after completion of the piece that the small tripod was buried in the cowling so it was not visible... but I like the way I have made it and will leave it there!!
I was also mislead by observing this picture:
where the MG seems not to touch the cowling, all the other Ni17 pics I found around showed the MG laying directly on the cowling.
In the above pictures you can see also the attempt to recreate the seaming thread fixing the top cowling to the sides of the fuselage, I know, it's not a good work, also the thickness of the wire is a bit excessive... OK
red mark on it but let's go ahead...
:-(
here you see the attempt to re-create the oil tank, the windshield was provisionally put in place to see the way it looked.
After I sprayed the fuselage with gray primer and painted glossy black the metal components to have a different shade of aluminum.
I will spray the model using a rattle-can of Tamiya TS 83 "Metallic Silver".
