Revell 1/72 Lancaster B.III " Dambusters "

[Twokidsnosleep]

Awesome
Home stretch and diorama underway, great stuff

[alextheblue]

Ooooh, very nice!! Bouncing bomb actually bouncing perchance??? Really looking forward to seeing this come on!

[gaz45]

Thanks guys

[Stokesy44]

Love the diorama idea and the Lanc is looking beautiful under the primer

[gaz45]

Cheers mate

[Kevthemodeller]

Looking forward to the dam mate

[gaz45]

Right on to the camo
All masked up ready for the first colour which i will use Akah dark earth bs450









That was left to dry over night has i will be masking over this
Time for the second colour firstly i defined the lines with some thin tape



Then masked off the infills with some standard masking tape



I will carry on this way untill it is all masked



Masking complete and painted with Akah dark green bs641





Once it has dried i'll take off the masking apart from on the canopy and the side windows untill it has been clear coated and decaled

The masking is off and some of the brown paint came away in some small places but i'll call it chipping lol.











This was then clear coated in a 50/50 mix of tamiya x22 and mr leveling thinner and once that had cured i added the decals.
Some of them did crumple a little but i'll call it battle damage from the bombing run















Once the decals were dry it was given another clear coat has before.

While that was drying i added a thin coat of vajello air russian green over the base water area for a little tonal variation when that is dry i'll move on to the dam.





So the finish line is in sight i need to work out how i'm going to mount the bomb and plane over the base I have some clear plastic rod i will probably use for this.
In the meantime thanks for taking a look and for commenting.

[Kevthemodeller]

Nice cammo shame about the decals

I wonder if it's the Revell quality again mate

[Tomcat64]

Lovely work mate - very tidy with the camo pattern and really looking forward to how you pull the dio together.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Elegant camo masking, I am going to try that method

You can overcome the decals....paint if you have to
Too close to finishing to panic, you got this!!!

[gaz45]

Thanks guys

[gaz45]

So here we are the home straight
I have added the rear gunners canopy along with the front bubble





Also given it a Ultimate dark dirt wash but i'm mot sure it shows up too well in the pics





While that was drying i repainted the dam walls in Ultimate grey primer and then defined the stonework joints using a.mig blue black panel line wash









A small hole was drilled in the bomb and in the base then some fine wire was glued into the bomb and then positioned on the base





After that the same was done to the plane except with a larger hole to fit the clear plastic ro



This was then glued to the base and i'm calling it finished.







There we are i will post some pics in the reveal section
Thanks for taking a look and for all your comments.

[digger303]

''Pull up Captain pull up damn you or we'll all be swimming''

[gaz45]

Thatls what i thought mate i guess i should of put the rod further down the fuselage to get the balance or appear ti be going up lool.

[gaz45]

On the other hand if the bomb missed the plsne wouldn't