Heller VBCI with some mods

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Thank you Vincent.
I must confess that I'm cheating and only building what will be visible through the hatches ;)
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You work beautifully on the interior of the model. Good scratchbuilding Olivier.

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Thank you Milan.
I have made new seats for the driver and the commander. I still need to add the foot-rest under the commander's seat and the most difficult i.e. the supports bolted to the hull side and the associated jack.

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Dramatic improvement.
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Thank you Bryan.
The both seats are over. The commander's one has a footrest.
Now I can add some details to the driver's station.

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Commander and driver stations done. I'll paint separately the sub-assemblies before gluing the engine wall.
The seats are fitted with blu-tac for the photos.

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Great work Olivier, it’s a high step up from what Heller offered!
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Thank you Adam.
I can live with a basic interior. However basic should not mean wrong which is the case in this model.

I sprayed the base coat of white on to the various parts. When they are dry I'll start painting the details.

I started another flaw of the kit i.e. the rear ramp inner face. The padding patches are wrong in their dimensions, one is missing and will be added later on. I fixed the wrong shape of the door inner face too.
I'll use putty to fill the various gaps and holes. Hopefully the result will be close enough to the actual ramp.

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Beginning of the paint job of the interior. The right side is not complete. I still have to add some racks.

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I have started to detail the rear panel. Here is the Heller panel.

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Here is the modified panel. The inner frame is larger and has rounded corners.

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The ramp inner face. It still misses the antislip coating.

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That's some impressive scratchbuilding Olivier! :D I hope it's still visible in the end...

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