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Hi, The Saro Lerwick was not a fortunate machine, however it has nice look of a carp-like fish with wings... Close to an archetype of a flying boat. Surely it is more than 50 years since I learnt on it, This was a small, pocket size booklet with photos and drawings of airplanes, maybe a WW2 tutorial for British AA soldiers... All this time I was thinking on doing her one day, but mostly I was hoping that a injection model will appear and sometimes I was looking for a possibility of buying the Contrail vacu. But the latest became terrible costly, moreover, from what I 've seen in net it was only partially looking like a Lerwick... Recently, maybe within last two years, a Blackbird resin kit appeared and I was almost decided to buy one when on BM Rumormonger section in comments I've read that the problem of both Blackbird and Contrails models is the wrong idea of he cockpit arrangement: in real Lerwick pilot and second pilot/observer were sitting one behind another whereas on both models they sit one next to other, side by side what makes the fuselage much wider on top. Then I realized that it is what I dislike in internet photos of Contrail models... So I decided that I have to scratch it. This January I had and sudden thought looking at a Sunderland fuselage lying on side of my desk - why not to scratch the Lerwick just now? Here is a build story: If you do not have to to through this hole build thread as a resume I can tell what I used (besides a whole tube of Milliput and Humbrol and Tamiya putty ). Fuselage is glued from pieces cut out from Airfix Sunderland (which left with me as spare after build of Short Empire). In construction of wings I have used two ZTS Plastyk Il-2 kits, spare tail from Farman 223, a plastic sheet 1.5 mm thick. Nacelles from Frog Wellington and Airfix Halifax. Engines from MPM Wellington Mk X (shorted), props from Valom Harrow (resin copies of them), nose and rear turrets made from Airfix Sunderland, the dorsal from Airfic Lancaster, main canopy from mini-sushi dish (curved side windows) plus Gillette packing (front windscreen) and a purposely made top part (8 pieces all together) .... Beach gear wheels from ZTS Il-2 (main) and rear from some toy (I think a Husky broken car), stabilizer from wings of Frog P47D, rudder and tail mostly from spare SH DC2.... I have chosen the scheme for summer 1940, with large fin flash and I took the possibility of shadow shading applied ther, what I think I see on some photos. This particular machine has a bit strange A and A1 roundels with enlarged central red. Here is the results: Two more photos from another camera (with different color balance) Comments welcome Regards J-W ,

So BOB was a quick fun scratch mecha build, I had in my head that he would be a fighting mecha like those at the start of the Big hero six film. I hope you like him all comments welcome. Cheers Brian.