A few months agoo I started with the 88 FLAk 18 selbstfahrlafette from Trumpeter. After reading some reviews I though it should be a peace of cake, right out the box, but when I did some research and compared it with photo's of the real thing I found that there was a lot to change.
first of all, Trumpeter made curved side plates of the drivers housing while they should be straight.
They also forgot the triangle reinforcements on the front of them.
Further, all the plates they used are to thick and when you make them thinner they are to small, so the side plates of the motor compartment where made larger and the hood was made of copper
The main gun in the box is a beauty but with to much detail; The 88 on the real thing was actually a PAK that means that all the devices of the FLAK gun were removed and only the direct visor was kept, also instead of 1 hand wheel there were 2 on the same station. The main adaption was on the recuperator on top of the gun tube, this was reinforced and a bullet splash guard was added
The ammo cannister attached on the gun shield is to big and in a wrong angle so I made a new one
There was a choice for the gun shield, one in plastic and a beauty in photo etch, but in comparison with the rest of the plating this one is to thin in my opinion, so I used the plastic one but thinned down the main shield and made new ones for the side
Before putting it all together The inside of the drivers housing was painted
That's it for now, later the painting stage on which I am busy.
Eddy
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