BBMF: Lancaster
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April 21, 2024The kit only comes with a pilot, so I've scrounged together the rest of the crew: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.2
April 21, 2024As the kit comes with no bombs, I've got an after market (AIM Transport Wings) Blockbuster 12,000 lb bomb, and various spares from the stash.3
April 21, 2024Navigator... and I've gone off piste from the instructions, it's getting an H2S radar (display unit on the left at the end of the table).4
April 21, 2024"Bridge crew" assembled - the Pugh twins will appear in their gun turrets later.5
April 21, 2024Also not in the instructions but vital... the Elsan loo that's by the back door (been referring to the Haynes Manual for the BBMF Lancaster 🙂 ) Note the "no step" stencil on the lid.6
April 21, 2024Toilet fitted. Users will have to let their feet dangle.7
April 21, 2024That's the fuselage buttoned up.8
April 21, 2024Far, far off piste from the destructions now - fuselage painted...9
April 21, 2024All painted, decalled, varnished... might actually put it together soon 😉
So much easier to mask, to fit the decals, etc., like this. Just got to hope I don't damage it all during assembly now.
(Why's it upside down, Scalemates??)10
April 21, 2024Looking more like an aircraft now.11
May 1, 2024Uh-oh, time to break out the wasabi...12
May 1, 2024A few dodgy bits of fit, Milliput wasabi to the rescue.13
May 1, 2024Formation lights coloured and H2S radar dish/antenna fitted14
May 1, 2024Daleks: Invasion Earth15
May 1, 2024Turrets all done, and chuffed with my canopy.16
May 1, 2024Aftermarket 12000lb Blockbuster bomb (Amatol explosive, I decided, hence the green stripes), then smaller bomb load (granted, they're German as they came from the spares collection: didn't have any round-tailed ones to spare) that I christened Stooky Bill, Stooky Sue and the Three Stooky Babbies (Dr Who "The Giggle" reference!), striped up as Torpex rounds.17
May 1, 2024Took advantage of this angle before I put the tail turret on: photo down the length of the fuselage18
May 1, 2024Open the bomb-bay doors, Hal. Also, radome fitted over the radar dish.19
May 1, 2024Bombs loaded20
May 1, 2024Bomb doors on (just! They're warped as anything, so are held on at the two ends only).21
May 1, 2024Loving my canopy there. Cleanest one I think I've done.22
May 1, 2024Lancaster, with all my artistic licence (H2S radar, crew embarked, full and fictional bomb-load, .50 cal cannons aft rather than quad .303's...)23
May 1, 2024Reunited with the two Spitfires24
May 1, 2024Peek-a-boo Blockbuster et al.25
May 1, 2024On the stand26
May 1, 2024On the stand...27
May 1, 2024With the rear box art
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12 21 April, 15:14
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Ooh, I feel better about my makeshift bombload now, just seen some 1940s footage where they were loading square tailed bombs (and a cookie cutter) like my effort above.
About 2'30" through Youtube Video
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5 June, 17:42
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Building the B.III Lancaster from the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight gift set
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