Today I focused on the interior of the elevator cap, for which I had only a few pictures. This are two of these:
There is a tablet bed for fused shells elevated up from the interior magazine down in the flak tower. From what I could figure out in Michael Fedorowicz' book, the elevator was based on a chain, lifting the 128mm shells up in standing position. They were turned horizontally automatically just before they were placed on the tablet bed for pick-up by the flak crew. You can see this in the last picture. Below the tablet bed on the top, there is a spent shell container too, it is open in this picture.
I had to build everything from scratch. I use a transparent acrylate box into which I install the tablet bed and the spent shell container. What I did is by no means accurate because I did not have accurate plans or drawings. I just condemned myself doing this guesswork the moment I decided to make the main door of the elevator cap workable... This is the curse of a scratch builder I guess...
Here is the result, I placed it next to the cap and to both a readied and empty shell from Schatton Modellbau. I hope you can make something of it that looks like in the pictures. I fixed the tablet bed and casing with PVA glue to dry fit before I install them inside the elevator cap tomorrow. To beef the detail up a bit, I used resin nuts and bolts as in the picture (grey)
I hope you like it so far. Happy modeling!
