Sorry about the poor pic. But knoked this up to demonstrate the gun port.
Cut a slot in a spray paint lid. Cut a tube to length and glued in lid. Tube was inserted at an angle so you could see all the hole at one and not at the other. Filed and sanded tube flush to surface.
Hope it helps.
Thanks for the idea and it helped me with the idea of the slot and then i came up with an idea with the un-used gun port covers.
Heres whats been done today..........
Well guys been hard at again today though i've spent most of the time neatly removing the plastic from the optional gun port covers, as trumpeters are totally wrong
I've noticed today that the side panels which go on either side of the cockpit are a really tight fit and you can't really close the two halves of the fusalage together fully, so i'm not putting them in ! you can't even tell they arn't even there.
Tried to fill the gap which is inbetween the nose ring and the air ducting and is near impossible, so i'm going to make FOD guards front/rear
F1 Lightnings and early Lightning have a BLACK cockpit, unlike a MK 6 which has a grey cockpit, don't make this mistake if you ever build one !.
Trumpeters very poor attempt at making gun ports, i'd like to see which Lightning they modeled them on
Removing the scrap plastic out of the middle of the ports, careful they nearly snap in two when they are nearly the correct shape.
A bit out of focus but you get the idea, flash not working
For the back of the port i searched high and low for a suitable sized round plastic part, then i spotted the spare missiles and measured them and would do the job nicely
i just 'feathered' one end to make it sit at an angle to the port cover.
Back of the cover
On the edges of the port look a bit too thick so a skimmed a bit off the inside edge to make it look more acceptable.
My gun ports ! NOW WHO'S THE DADDY 8)
Cheers bigZ
thanks for looking.