Westland/Fairey War Hammer AT-AT (Armed Tactical Assault Transport)
Had to get me one of those. Bit of a mess right now but, progress being made. Kit was the moderately ancient Revell Rotodyne. Laziness has prevented me from conjuring up a back story for now .
Apart from badly warped fuselage halves, assembly has been relatively easy. The greatest amount of effort has involved my ham fisted modifications!!
I believe the original prototype was a bit underpowered due to the Napier Eland turbo props failing to deliver their promised 2900 shp? Any how, I've installed a pair of Allison T-56 engines from an old C-130 kit. With nearly 8500 hp between them, I reckon it ought to be enough. The Allison nacelle fronts were just about spot on depth wise ( at the wing leading edge) but, they were considerably wider than the kits engines!. I didn't want to reduce the width as, that would have made the props too wide so, I went the other way & widened the kit nacelles. You can see the extent of the damage in the photo! Actually, it was quite simples!!
I didn't feel that a row of big windows was necessary either so, I've used filler to cover most of them before sanding them flush. Most of the surface detail has of course been sacrificed.
The extended wing tips also came from the C-130. Tip tanks are from a 1/72 Jaguar. I want this thing to have SERIOUS firepower. So, I'm installing 4 hardpoints for rockets/gun pods etc. The wings are not a great fit - bit of a gap top and bottom. Tail assembly fitted well together - it will be installed later.
As this thing would be going into harms way, I reckoned the lower nose windows would have made it too vulnerable to small arms /machine gun fire around the nose/cockpit. On the assumption that these windows would be plated over & some form of light armour plating installed, I've puttied over & sanded them flush .I'll be using the kit u/c legs but, have replaced the wheels. The kit ones look a bit undernourished for what will be quite a large machine.
I have yet to decide on colour scheme/markings. I've considered the following ;
RAF / RN
USAF/ US Army Vietnam
Israeli Air Force desert camouflage
