Been working some more on the ball turret mount. First off, I realised that the mount itself was far too big - the late model turret I am making had much shorter legs...so I hacked them off & attached the mount, then bedded the legs in with squadron white stuff. (All photos of real aircraft are freely available on the net. I have reproduced them for illustrative purposes only)
The front has a spare parts box, the rear is where the gunner's oxygen hose attaches to the frame:
Early ball turrets had an internal ammo supply - late turrets like this one had side mounted ammo cans. I made these from plastic sheet, strip and rod:
I made the pole mount from appropriate diameter plastic rod - there's a couple of plugs with wires which run up to the ceiling of the aircraft. I deliberately left the pole too long - I'll work out exactly how long it needs to be once I mount it to the aircraft.
