Now that I've made the framework, and got it to fit into the fuselage, I can start adding the other details. Because I've opened up the gun troughs, I need to make Vickers guns to slot into them. And this is also a good time to build the ammo boxes.
The guns will hardly be seen, so I kept them simple. I cut pieces of plastic strip, 0.75x1.5mm, and drilled 0.8mm location holes at the front. Then I cut lengths of Albion Alloys 0.8mm tube for the barrels and glued them into the location holes. I added a tiny bit of 0.4mm square strip bent into shape for the loading handles, which I've decided are Hyland Type B in the absence of any other information. And that's pretty much it. You won't see the barrels,except for the muzzles, because they are hidden by a louvred cover, so there's no need to represent the perforations in the jackets.
I was in two minds about the ammo boxes. I thought of cutting them out of plastic card, and got as far as designing the outline in TurboCAD and printing it out. But then I thought better of that idea. It would be almost impossible to cut out the shape neatly. In the end, I just built up the shape from various thicknesses of 1.5mm plastic strip; and for the curved interior corners I just pasted on some Milliput and smoothed it to shape with the shank of a drill bit.
Here are the results:
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