OK so decided to start with the hard stuff, that being the turret. Here as you can see, I am using my surgery pointing dee-vice to mark the area to be removed:
At first I was SUPER concerned about scratch building the hatch and decking, and then by chance I found these parts from Legend, designed for the Academy kit, and they looked like they’d do:
So with the patient prepped and readied for surgery, the area to be cut was marked, and the prosthetic was tested for fit
Next it was time for good ol’ Mr. Dremel, along with some micro drill bits
The surgery was a bit too graphic for this site, but as you can see, the finished prosthetic fit really well, and will require a very minimum of styrene (plastic card, as I hear you blokes on the other side of the pond call it) to make the final bits required
More in a bit!