Stage 1 of the Cafferta modifications is complete. Here are a couple of shots of it in it's WIP state.

Here you can see how the wheel wells have been carved out to allow the wheels to be mounted further back on the chassis. I've made a form to help with the next step here of filling in the now unoccupied space. You can also wee how the pronounced protrusions near the middle of each side have been removed (in the original design I think they are intended to be lift ducts for it's hover mode, since this is going to be serving the USCMC I don't see that as being necessary).

I'll likely add some rivet/bolt heads to the edges of the blank areas from those removed ducts.

Here in the front view you can see more clearly the rebuilt starboard edge of the glacis and the cut out for the SAM/HIMAT launch bins.