Smer 1/72 LeO 451
Thanks everyone! I see quite a few others joined up so I'll have to check those out later!
Got a start on this yesterday!
As I said, the decals aren't great. They are yellowed, have some staining, the instructions were stuck to part of them, so I won't be using them. I might use the instrument decals though
The kits origins!
I am going to cut this door out and have it open
To make a pattern, I just oput a piece of paper against it and then rubbed a pencil over it
The kit gives you an option to have the gondola lowered by simply gluing it on the fuselage. I cut the opening out and put the whole thing in in the retracted position.
Got the tail and the engine nacelles together
and started some work on the gear bays
I had read that the germans mainly used these captured 451's for training and transport duties, so I am adding some detail to the fuselage just as an empty cabin. There was supposed to be a bomb rack against the port side of the fuselage and I believe O2 bottles on the starboard
Not going for accuracy here, just adding a little to improve the sparcity! STill have more to do here.
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