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December 9, 2023
Getting the parts ready for the machine gun construction. The carburetor was completed at the same time I did the Oberursel UR-2 rotary engine. Need to spend sometime looking over my books, photos and other resource material on Spandau machine guns to see how much detail I will add to them. The bullets look to be begging for some improvement, not sure how to tackle this yet, should be fun to figure out.
February 11, 2024
Finally spend sometime on the machine guns, haven't worked on the model in a couple of months except a little here and there. Starting to get interested once again to make some progress. The first image shows the original construction of the machine gun handles setup, this appears not be correct. If you look at the second picture, this shows actual machine gun at a museum. The large handle was an invention the mechanics came up with to help the pilots clear gun jams and they apparently were all a little different in design. Since I have an actual picture of one, this is what all try and mimic on the model. I also spent sometime improving the gun site to look more authentic then a molded piece of plastic.
Finally spend sometime on the machine guns, haven't worked on the model in a couple of months except a little here and there. Starting to get interested once again to make some progress. The first image shows the original construction of the machine gun handles setup, this appears not be correct. If you look at the second picture, this shows actual machine gun at a museum. The large handle was an invention the mechanics came up with to help the pilots clear gun jams and they apparently were all a little different in design. Since I have an actual picture of one, this is what all try and mimic on the model. I also spent sometime improving the gun site to look more authentic then a molded piece of plastic.
February 13, 2024
I finished all the detail on one of the machine guns tonight,
now onto the second machine gun. Total parts created to add the detail was 33 pieces per machine gun. Once these are done I will paint and weather them, then its onto the fuselage.
March 30, 2024
Finally finished up the machine guns. I created decals in photoshop for the guns that will show the writing like in these pictures of the real gun. Overall I'm pretty happy with the results and now I can move on to the fuselage.
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