Today I present you the ground
support equipment. There are 7 different "vehicles": the hangar
tractor, the hydraulic test stand H2987 Sun Electric Systems, the
starter 30 KVA, the component crane, the towbar, the outer load trailer and the
hoist. It takes a few hours for building and painting the model with
most details. We finally obtained good references of the real material,
except maybe for the towbar which seems too short and which the frame should
consist of two bars and not a single detail, according to the photos that I
observed in the Air Force Monthly magazine exclusively usual
to the Eurofighter Typhoon.
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I did little
scratchbuilding on the starter 30 KVA: I sanded the cable and its ties on the
right-hand side. Ties were made from brass thread and the cable in brass thread too
but a finer diameter. I put down a drop of maskol Humbrol on one of the
extremities to represent the connection on the plane. The cacle
is black and the connection grey.
Every
"vehicle" was deposited in a homogeneous way on the diorama by
avoiding a blocked aspect. You will see the result next time when the Typhoon
and the diorama are finished.
Bla’k Ja’k
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