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Sweet looking Manchester there. Very impressive, using a Airfix Lanc and modifying it to do a Manchester parts just with DB engines.
Sorry to hear the model was lost though.
David.
thanks l plan someday to build a new one with a newer kit of Lancaster. l plan to do the same aircraft for a reason. I built it as it was an aircraft of significant historical value. Here is why
Engine trouble in another aircraft of 50 Squadron that night resulted in the chain of events which led to F/O L. T. Manser being posthumously awarded the V.C-the only one won by a crew member of a Manchester. Manser was captain of Manchester L7301, and although the bomber had behaved satisfactorily on air-test, fully loaded its ceiling was no more than 7,000 ft. All attempts to gain more height overheated the engines. Manser was facing exactly the same hazards as Sgt Wilkie, He, too, decided against turning back. As the aircraft was approaching the target, an hour later, it was caught by searchlights and subjected to intense and accurate flak. Manser held the Manchester straight and level and bombed the target. Almost immediately. afterwards the aircraft received a direct hit from a flak shell and Manser took violent evasive action. He now ran into a hail of light 20-millimetre flak and the searchlights were shining through the cockpit roof. The bomber was down to 800 ft. before it finally escaped into the darkness. The rear-gunner had been wounded, the rear part of the bomb doors had been blown off, and the bomber was now dangerously low. Manser began to climb on extra boost but as he did so the port engine overheated, and by the time he had climbed to 2,000 ft. it burst into flames.
The engine was cut and the extinguisher put into action, but the blaze continued, and it seemed that the fuel-tanks would explode in a matter of seconds. Manser, however, decided to wait and see if the fire would go out, although the instinct of the crew was to get out immediately. Within a few minutes the fire did go out but the Manchester was still losing height, and after some equipment had been jettisoned, but to no avail, Manser ordered the crew to bale out. A sergeant brought him a parachute but he thrust him away, telling the N.C.O. to jump at once as he could only hold the aircraft steady for a few seconds more. As the others descended to safety they saw the Manchester, still carrying their gallant captain, plunge to earth and burst into flames.
l think it deserves a place of honor among someone's collection. Funny how both the real and the model are both lost somehow
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l dug up the two pics of my Manchester that l had. Sadly the plane no longer exists and has been lost. some day l will redo it but for now this is mine based as l had said earlier on the old Airfix model with DB vulture nacelles and cutting and modifying the outer wing. l used for the upper turret one from a Sterling bomber
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the name change caught me off guard. l have been looking for the rest of the articles on the spitfire against japanese article. l got part one but missed the other two plus the remaining articles on the Spitfire Mk XI. Is there any chance anyone of you could scan and email the rest of those articles?? As for being better or worst off l am going to give it a few more issues before l decide. l like seeing models being build but l also like the info to back up those builds and if MAM provides that l am ok with it.
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Many moons ago l got a hold of some DB Manchester vulture nacelles and used the Airfix kit as it was the only one at the time (1990) that was decent the only decent kit. Now according to what l read at the time the only difference between the Lanc and the Manchester was the wings and the tails. Turrets were different too. when the Rolls Royce Vultures ended up a failure ( they lost more bombers to engine failure then enemy action) they had to come up with a fix. All they basically did was make new outer wings to take an extra engine so they could use 4 Merlins and some changes to the tail to accommodate the now larger plane and replaced the upper turret. They were going to call the plane a Manchester Mk II but decided it was a whole new plane and decided to call it a Lancaster.
So cross kitting the two should work without to much hassle. You could go with using the whole wing from the Manchester kit or you can use just the outer portion and use the revell kit inter wings and nacelle and just added the Manchester vulture nacelles. If memory serves me correct the horizontal stabilizers were a bit smaller so using the revell ones should be ok if you cut them down a bit and use the Manchester tail.
Yes it could be done with ease.
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so what is the alternative to alumilite?? Here in Canada l been looking for stuff available here and all l come up with is alumilite. l know there are other companies but how to find them??
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l found that milliput will dry out and take longer to cure now what l do to store it is l put it into the freezer and when l need it l pull it out and let it warm up. once l am done l put it back in. It extends the life. Also another bit of hard lesson is that you also put cyanoacrylate super glues into the frig. It keeps it fresh longer as well.
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I am currently looking for scale drawings and pictures of the Allison engine and the engine bearers for the early mark of mustangs and also the nose gun installation on them
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Now is this the original revell release of a flanker or is this a whole new cat? A hasegawa/revell kit??
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l want to know if the Eduard set #48-413 interior detail set for the Monogram 1/48 Mil 24 Hind was ever made. l seem to remember it being made but now its says canceled on the Eduard website. l want one but don't know if anyone has any in their stash
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l am no strategic expert nor do l have any degrees or military back ground but what l do have is common sense and common sense dictates like Murphy's law anything and everything could and will happen. The enemy can come in all sorts of varieties. Right now we are battling a foe who is intelligent but uses rather unsophicated means to wage war with terror. That may not always be so. Tomorrow, next year. a decade or even two decades from now things could be very different. We could be waging war against a very sophicated and well armed and trained foe. So the boy scouts motto of always be prepared should be well heeded. Hitler painfully proved to us that when you do not keep up with the current and you let someone get the edge like he did and you are not prepared you could lose which the free world almost did which historically we only won by the skin of our teeth. We got lucky that Hitler went nuts if he hadn't things could have been very different today.
Personally the JSF concept is sound but l think it will need time to grow if its possible. Remember the Harrier and the F-16 in the early days and now look at them. Some of you maybe right and the F-35 is a white elephant or it could be what was advertised only time will tell
my two cents
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couldnt be any dumber then our canadian government. we had chinooks and then the governmemt at the time decided we did not need them as there will be no war for us to fight in the near future and sold them to the dutch. fast forward almost twenty years later we are buying them back again from the US Army who in turns wants to buy the up to date version while though cheaper we have to have our new ones brought up to standards. So our twenty years beats your eight lol
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This is a sweet build l have to keep watching this one
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As for me l was thinking going back down to 1/48 helicopters and to 1/72 to start new collection (lost all mine two years ago ) we will see
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10 Jags have gone as fliers to USA
Just curious about this one. l have been trying to surf the net about this but cant find the story. is there a link to this bit of interesting news??
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the cockpit looks so shinny and new that you almost can smell that new car smell you get with a new car
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l had that kit and the academy kit as well (hmm both seem similar in layout on the sprues) one l did as half black and half bear metal (the rear portions) and l did the other as a rams horn version which l found interesting. For the age of the kit it does but into a nice likeness.
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nice but did they not fly the Gloster Gauntlet too? would not matter l seem to remember the paint scheme being the same as the gladiator. We could use alot more sheets like this for all well known squadrons from all countries. It would make an interesting collection build
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Thanks, nice set of pics and very useful!!
Now we need a 1/48th scale of this beast and l am off to the races
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http://homepage.eircom.net/~radub/Gallery/...20Hurricane.htm
If you want to see what can be done with this kit l suggest you go to Radub site and check out what he did a couple of years ago. It does produce a pretty nice Hurricane when done. l have build the kit my self many years ago and know of what you say about the it being a Mk II with Mk I gun bay access doors Doh! revell!!
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http://homepage.eircom.net/~radub/Gallery/...Avia%20S199.htm
Try looking here Radub did one a while ago and he has it posted on his website. It should be dam close to what the orginal looks like
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l wanted one of the early prototype version Revell put out years ago but could never get my hands on one but someone must have been looking out for me as l love the look of the new Revell kit. Now the question is who can do a Revell vs Trumpeter comparison so we all can get a idea what one offers the other does not in details and/or what are the pros and cons of both. l would be interested to know as like the rest of you l feel the Trumpeter kit is way too pricey for what you get compare to the Revell kit
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wow nice drawing of the gunbay do you have any of the nose guns and what are the measurements of the ammo boxes?
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A lot of us are interested here