#44 Lancaster late for take off

[RossiM1]

Sorry for the late start, but have been busy with a few other things but today was a free day so no excuses, chocks away.
This is the Revell 1/72 Lancaster MKI/III a late war machine I will be doing the MKIII one of the Lancs that performed one of the last operations odf the war.
The kit is showing it's age there is plenty of spare plastic , that is supplied in the form of flash, it's on pretty well every part, it's more like a resin kit.
I have had this kit for quiet a while just sitting in the stash, and I had purchased the Eduard self adhesive cockpit detail set, and the seat harness's, some Master gun barrels, and a set of resin wheels.
With the flash sorted made a start by prepping the fuselage and the cockpit ready to receive the etch sets, primed with Ultimate black primer, then airbrushed with Tamiya XF69 NATO Black to give a greyish black appearance,etch parts added then details painted as per call outs in RAF interior Green, & flat Brown.
fairly productive day and hopefully can crack on with a bit more tomorrow.

















Cheers

[Garion77]

Late but pretty nice start !! Good work already !

[Twokidsnosleep]

Well I expected most guys would wait to start out on the weekend so I don’t think you are late at all
Wonderful to see a Lancaster project....such and important plane historically
I welcome you to,the sig and hope you have good luck with the kit and a bit of fun along the way

Scott

[digger303]

I like the pe

[aur0ra145]

Great looking PE, I love how it brings the interior to life!

[RossiM1]

Thank you for the comments guys, the build rumbles on primered and painted the engines and the nacelles and the upper turret, used Tamiya cockpit green for these parts, got the wings assembled, and the rear stabilisers, and got the fuselage buttoned up, progress is quiet quick at this stage, next up will be getting the nacelles mounted to the wings, and start on the undercarriage.



Here are todays photos
Thanks again guys and good luck to everyone in the group

[Twokidsnosleep]

Jeepers, you are all ready to button ups the fuselage!!!
I have only fondled my kit parts once or twice this weekend with no intent to build

[RossiM1]

Lol Scott this is just one of those kits that despite a lot of the criticism that Revell get builds really well, only a slight swipe of filler along the wing roots required everything else has gone together beautifully. Still a way to go and plenty of time to screw it up but so far so good

[gaz45]

Nice choice and good progress there mate

[pourquoi61]

Fast builder, I like it.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Keep up the good work
I can't even get my cockpit done yet

Door prize draw coming up this weekend

[RossiM1]

Back to the Lancaster, progress fairly swift as the assembly process is pretty straight forward, as you can see in the photos I have removed the kits machine gun barrels and drilled out with a .5mm drill ready to install the brass barrels from Master, they really do make a big difference, the fuselage is buttoned up and the seams taken care of the canopy and the gun turret glazing has been added and masked using Vallejo masking fluid then I have primed with Ultimate Black primer. Next step will be to spray with Tamiya XF69 Nato Black then a very thinned Tamiya XF1 Matt Black to try and get some tonal variation on the Black.











Thanks for looking

[gaz45]

Looking good mate

[Twokidsnosleep]

OOooo Drooling over those gun barrels, those look COOL!!!
She is coming along very nicely mate

[alextheblue]

Looking really nice. That NATO black should add a nice touch to the black.

[RossiM1]

Thanks guys enjoying this so far pretty straight forward build no dramas have acquired some of the Airfix RAF vehicle sets so maybe an attempt at a diorama will be in order.

[pourquoi61]

Yes those gun barrels are magic.
Magic building and nice watching this Lanc come to life.

[RossiM1]

The Lanc rumbles on primed and painted the matt black masked and started on the Dark Earth using Mr Hobby for this noticed some seams that suddenly reared their heads so have had to go over with sprue goo need to sand this back and reapply the Dark earth again.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Really taking shape now
She looks to be taking up a fair bit of your desk there
I still have machine gun envy what colour do the Brownings get painted ??? black? gun metal? green?
My Airfix gives no colour call outs

[Stokesy44]

Loving seeing the Lanc come to life.

I’m losing track of how many of them are in the Sig. We may not have a whole squadron but we’re close to having a flight of the beauties.

[RossiM1]

Really taking shape now
She looks to be taking up a fair bit of your desk there
I still have machine gun envy what colour do the Brownings get painted ??? black? gun metal? green?
My Airfix gives no colour call outs

Thanks Scott yes the bench is a little cluttered temporary accomadation while new extension going up
the guns will be painted H28 gunze gun metal

[Twokidsnosleep]

Really taking shape now
She looks to be taking up a fair bit of your desk there
I still have machine gun envy what colour do the Brownings get painted ??? black? gun metal? green?
My Airfix gives no colour call outs

Thanks Scott yes the bench is a little cluttered temporary accomadation while new extension going up
the guns will be painted H28 gunze gun metal

Righto, thanks for that colour call out

[pourquoi61]

Gun metal?
Painting stage is like a baby bird getting it's feathers.

[demarcation]

Great build so far mate!! Keep up the good work

[Twokidsnosleep]

One month left in the sig
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