1/72'' Revell Airbus A400M Grizzly C.1a EC-404

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Inne fuselage dry fitted to test the joins. 

Internal detail is just about done. 

Next is the tail and horizontal stabilizers. 

This is truly a massive massive model! 

Wow.... 

That's alot of pegs.... 

That's the internal engine exhausts painted and built 

To date my favourite wing section I've built. 

I decided the Cargo hold looked a little too bare so I searched photos online and I improvised. 

I used the Fire Extinguisher from the Airfix Supermarine Spitfire Mk.1. 

Now the decision was made to close up the inner fuselage.
 

Finally the cockpit is painted 

Finished 

And attached to the inner fuselage! 

The fuselage is now closed up, Wings are still still dry fitted. 

Cockpit windows are masked. 

One final test fit before thongs get big.
This thing is absolutely enormous!

Possibly the only kit I have that's bigger is the Monogram B-36 Peacemaker. 

Rotors all built, here's a quick test fit to see how she looks. 

I took 404 our for a day of sprey priming today, seems to have gone well.. 

Seems aren't as bad as they were around the cockpit now! 

I took the plunge with the 1 thing I was more worried about than the sheer size!
THE NOSE!!! 

Props painted. 

So I built and finishes the "refueling" probe but I noticed that it's just a blank almost like the broom handles they used in the B-25 Mitchell on the Doolottke Raid! 

I "borrowed" a probe end from one of my New Tool Airfix Harrier GR.9 

And I think it looks very much like the real thing! 

Close enough for me 🙂 

The final test fit. 

All that needs doing on the fuselage is to add the main Gear doors and door. 

Last painting done and decals to the upper wing surfaces. 

404 has been towed out of the paintshop atlast. 

Now to finish the rotor blades. 

Masking these Beasts is very tedious! 

Painting the propellers..... 

Final decals. 

And she's finished! 

The tail should have Orange on but Revell's decal is red so I decided HHrA painted it Red for...reasons.... 

I think 404 looks pretty nice! 

I'm still going to try and get some flags for the front of the fuselage. 

Another angle. 

She now officially joins HHrA's Transport fleet! 

Just a decent head on shot showing off the detailed propeller blades.