BBMF: Lancaster
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The kit only comes with a pilot, so I've scrounged together the rest of the crew: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb.
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As 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.
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Navigator... 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).
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"Bridge crew" assembled - the Pugh twins will appear in their gun turrets later.
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Also 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.
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Toilet fitted. Users will have to let their feet dangle.
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That's the fuselage buttoned up.
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Far, far off piste from the destructions now - fuselage painted...
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All 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??)
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??)
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Looking more like an aircraft now.
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Uh-oh, time to break out the wasabi...
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A few dodgy bits of fit, Milliput wasabi to the rescue.
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Formation lights coloured and H2S radar dish/antenna fitted
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Daleks: Invasion Earth
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Turrets all done, and chuffed with my canopy.
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Aftermarket 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.
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Took advantage of this angle before I put the tail turret on: photo down the length of the fuselage
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Open the bomb-bay doors, Hal. Also, radome fitted over the radar dish.
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Bombs loaded
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Bomb doors on (just! They're warped as anything, so are held on at the two ends only).
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Loving my canopy there. Cleanest one I think I've done.
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Lancaster, with all my artistic licence (H2S radar, crew embarked, full and fictional bomb-load, .50 cal cannons aft rather than quad .303's...)
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Reunited with the two Spitfires
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Peek-a-boo Blockbuster et al.
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On the stand
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On the stand...
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With the rear box art
Komentarzy
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