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1/32 HC.1 RAF Puma Northern Ireland


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So mainly this week - I’ve been scratchbuilding the gun mount. The support is the body of a 1/72 sidewinder and I used a 1/72 Canberra pylon covered in 10thou plasticard then drilled. All the brackets and and ejector chute are scratch. I’ve made the collection bag out of paper maché but may revisit this as it’s still wet. The whole thing is glued to a temporary base with one spot of glue so I can set and adjust everything. The crewman was originally a PJ production pilot. This has had a lot of cutting sand and filling as I could not get them hot enough to bend. Bar the bag all ready for a daylight inspection then slap some paint on. I’ll then added the ammo box n belt.

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thanks for staying with it.

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So crappy weather meant that I could spend quite a bit of time modelling this weekend, which is most unusual for me. So the crewman is now painted and the gun is painted also the ammo box and bullets. I added some generic yellow writing decal and an orange diamond on the ammo box. The gun was weathered with a grey pencil just to bring out the features. I made a harness for the crewman and secured it to one of the floor rings. Still plenty to do yet, but a couple of photo’s.

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That's a pretty impressive crewman and gun. Generally the crewmans 'Monkey Harness' was clipped to the underside of the main gearbox. IIRC!

But as I never saw the gun fitted, you could well be right that he's attached to the floor. 

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Very impressive work on the gun and its mount. Although I only saw the gun fitted whilst in the Gulf I am sure it was like @Pete in Lincssaid was still fitted to the underneath of the MRGB as it would not get in the way of troops and others moving about in the cabin. But as this was 30 yrs ago and I was only aorund them with it fitted for 6 mths or so I could be wrong as memory fades.

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Cheers PiL & Jabba, I asked on the aircrew forum about harness or a vest and in that thread I was informed that the crewman was encouraged to clip to the floor after an incident with a French Puma where the MRGB casing cracked and let go taking the load and the crewman with it. I assume it was down to the individual, so chose to hook to the floor. Although research shows both ways clipping on.

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This weeks update. My second choice of passenger. Initially in my mind I had the crewman on one side and a Santa Clause on the other, either standing or sitting. But the best candidate was a WW1 1/35 figure. So not having a tremendous amount of experience cutting and shutting figures I chose option #2. This is a 3D printed photographer in 1/32 that I found on the bay. I know zilch about cameras but for my purposes it’s suits quite nicely. He is painted in civvies again with a harness hooked to the floor. This is nearly done now so will start looking at a pole and some replacement antennas for the nose. I know already that I won’t do the washing line antenna down the port side as I’ve run out of EZ line, so will pick some up at Telford. I’ll add some more weathering after the handling I’ve had to to. So the next post will be in the RFI section in a few weeks, as a holiday looms.

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