Lower nose after priming. MSN1 had a pyrotechnically armed hatch, through which the crew would have bailed out if needed, which I modeled with a raised piece of card.
This device was only present on MSN1 and thankfully was never used.
Propeller #3 had some thin black rings... which you can see in the pictures of the real thing and which I did not finally replicate. I tried but was not able to get a good result...so no rings for me.
Blades of propeller #3 were numbered. I think the markings on this propeller are somehow related to the simulated ice shapes test campaign, but that is just an assumption.
The A400M in 1:144 from Revell, done as MSN1 during the last part of its career.
Some artistic license has been used, as the configuration of the different appendages that comprised the Flight Test Instrumentation suite hugely varied depending on what was being tested at the moment. Lots of orange things, lots of speed tape...
References are the pictures found on the internet, mainly in Airliners.net.
Currently the aircraft is retired and looked after in the Aeroscopia museum, in Toulouse, France.
The model was done as a commision for one of the former Test Flight Engineers who operated the real thing.
