Reg Gibson

Santa, apparently, is bringing me this. Great to see the build coming together. If you want any photos in the engine bay I will happily take some snaps from my 1:1 model

Andy, lots to look through. Thanks for the direction. The assumption has always been that they were all killed and one of the crew is commemorated at Runnymede. We've never assumed that the 7th man survived

Great build, great story , good luck with your search

Andy, yes Volker told me he had made contact and saw the link between my model, the Lanc and your research. He was quite excited! He has helped on numerous occasions despite being a long way from my search area. My next stage of the journey is to find the missing airman who was found hanging from a tree the night of the crash a couple of hundred yards from the crash site. He was taken away. The German love of record keeping should reveal the detail but it's the German archives i'm going to have to tackle. I'll have a look at your site, Good luck. Reg

Thank you very much for those words. It was a lot of work but worth it to do everything. I'm still receiving details. I'm unsure if I've added the link to a series of Youtube vids that I did as background and on the days that I visited the graves of the crew. I'll add it below On my return I received more information about the 7th crew member (we only have 6 graves in Hannover). Someone on that night, in the village where they crashed, was found hanging from a tree by his parachute. He was cut down and taken away. The journey continues ... My ramblings and videos from Hannover and the graves of the crew of JB141

Selwyn, no fear, they'll be a lovely shades of green or brown or maybe even with a bit of black! 😉

🤣She's under glass now, awaiting some vehicles and a proper airfield finish (A cheap facebook purchase)

Does this work? Link to Flickr album

Whizzing over to FAQs now, my apologies Everything OK now?

Lancaster JB141 UM-N2 of 626 Squadron Tamiya 1/48 This was my first attempt at modelling in decades to commemorate the crew of JB141 which I have researched over the past 2 years following the rediscovery of a poem my mother wrote to them but never delivered before their demise in 1944. https://juliaandrichard.wixsite.com/jb141 Things I have learned from the build: - Products such as photo etch - an incredible, fun, frustrating invention. Some parts were beyond my skills but I had fun with it. The same with the masking sets - Paints – what a bewildering array available now. Not just Humbrol any more and so many water based – and flesh wash – what a miracle product! - Air brushing – I overcame my fear and had a go. - Weathering – so many techniques out there. I overdid it then chickened out on the exhausts. I had FUN. I had forgotten the joys of creating something like this. It is not perfect but an enjoyable first attempt after a LOOONG break. Friendship – I received the decals and some of the parts from other modellers (shout out to @The Spadgent for his help and inspiration) and I'm overwhelmed at the generosity of them and those in these forums who have shared their builds. I still need to brush up on basic skills and techniques and not take short cuts. I was pretty patient (especially with the PE which seemed to take forever) but still didn't get rid of join lines etc which was lazy on my part.

Looking for glue recommendations (apologies to those without facebook) Facebook article on 'Just Jane'

Well, I've realised that my eyesight is much worse than I thought but the new glasses with the light recommended above are excellent. My first attempts highlight the limit of my skills and eyesight but I've got to say I'm really enjoying this. The kit available nowadays and the advice from forums like this is beyond what I imagined. I'm going to set up a thread to record my progress and leave pictures etc

That's really useful, thanks. Unfortunately it skips UM-N2 which is the aircraft I am researching I'll see if I can contact Air-Britain

Ian, really grateful you took the time to look. Thank you

That would be great, Ian, thank you