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Ok so winter is here, and starting something new, been on the shelf for a while now, think I'm now brave enough to attempt it. Avro Lancaster B Mk.I /III HK Models | No. 01F005 | 1:48 Scale With a few added extras from Eduard, cockpit and seatbelts A mere 362 parts, might take me a while... A quick tape up to get a sense of scale ... oh boy ...I will need a bigger display cabinet. Wish me luck! Peter

Battle of Britain Memorial Flight 1:72 Airfix (A50182) The BBMF is an RAF Flight dedicated to preserving the history of the RAF. The flight based at RAF Coningsby comprises one Avro Lancaster, six Supermarine Spitfires and two Hawker Hurricanes. As well as these aircraft they have a Douglas Dakota and two de Havilland Chipmunks for training. The flight take part in many airshows and flypasrts for different events each year. The Kits Here Airfix are re-boxing their excellent new tool Lancaster B.III (A08013A), Spitfire PR.XIX (A02017), and Spitfire Mk.I/Mk.IIa (A02010). Aslo included in the box is one of their black multi aircraft stand so the 3 models can be displayed together in flight. Lancaster. This is the new tool kit from 2012, the kit is a modern tooling with good detail and engraved panel lines. Spitfire PR.XIX This is the new tool kit from 2009, the kit is a modern tooling with good detail and engraved panel lines. Spitfire Mk.I/Mk.IIa This is the new tool kit from 2010, the kit is a modern tooling with good detail and engraved panel lines. Decals The sheet is a new one for this, this is produced by Cartograf so that guarantees all will be good. Markings provided are for; Lancaster - 2019 Season. Port Side AR-L Leader W505 No.460 Sqn RAAF. Stbd side finished as VN-T No.50 Sqn RAF Spitfire PR.XIX - PS915 No.81 Sqn RAF - RAF Kai Tak, Hong Kong 1951 Spitfire Mk.I/Mk.IIa - R6895 KL-B "KIWI III" F/O Deere. No.54 Sqn ARF. RAF Catterick Aug 1940 Conclusion Its great to see Airfix Airfix releasing these kits aa a set, this will make a great gift idea. Review sample courtesy of

Enjoyed visiting the forum for the last 2 years, but no bench time. Got enthusiasm back and purchased the Airfix BOBMF 3 model set. Results are a bit rough and ready with visible gaps and seams, but at least I'm back in the game. First time using AK Interactive paint pens for some items. 424 Squadron RCAF Lanc - RF128 QV-B "Victorious virgin". This Lanc survived the war, which is a nice thought when building one of these. The Airfix Lanc lacks the necessary starboard cabin vent and larger astrodome. I didn't scratch the necessary 3 spine-mounted whip aerials either, just to mention my presentation lacks strict accuracy. Paints included in the set used were for the upper camo, plus below went for Tamiya XF69 Nato black. QV-B decals are aftermarket. Exhausts: used 2 AK interactive paint pens Aluminium and then 'chipping colour' Quinta cockpit set. Cockpits are my favourite part of builds before final paint, so I like to add detail where possible. Cockpit mainly painted with AK Interactive paint pen colour set...RAF interior grey/green and rubber black, plus Japanese navy emerald green for the seats. Exhaust weathering was airbrushed Tamiya XF19 sky grey over a previous layer of XF69 nato black, both paints were diluted with two thirds thinner. AK Interactive paint pens used on the undercarriage legs (RLM76☺️, rubber black and aluminium) . Paint pens used on the tyres: rubber black, and flat black for the hub. Photo below.... Propellers, spinners and the front air intake assembly are Citadel black primer only (with Revell yellow tips). These 4 assemblies were only added after the rest of the model was painted and decalled. The bomb bay doors were tricky. First attempt saw daylight between the doors and fuselage. 3 later attempts to re-stick the doors with no gaps failed. In desperation I resorted to double-sided sticky tape. The bomb aimers window surround is the paint mask stuck on (the bit you are supposed to remove to add paint! Quite pleased with that idea. Likewise, the Z rings are 2 of the under fuselage ID light masks! Spine access hatch windows shown below are Spitfire wheel hub masks, stuck on. Port wing cabin heating intake blocked off. Due to my process errors, the paint masks didn't match up between the fuselage and wings at the front. A lesson for the next time. Spitfire Mk IIa from the box. This is Spitfire IIa, P7350. Built Castle Bromwich Aircraft Factory July 1940 Survived the war and is now flying with Battle of Britain Memorial Flight as KL-B Kiwi III I tried out the AK Interactive paint pens on the exhausts. 'Aluminium' first then 'chipping colour'. Happy with the result for a few seconds of effort on each stub. Finally, given a rub with pencil graphite. What do you think of the result? Spitfire S-31 (mk19) Swedish Air Force 1955 1 Division, Flottilj Didn't fancy the in-box option for this one, so did a quick trawl on Hannants for a PRU blue option from Model Alliance. Its ExtraColour PRU blue including the propeller backplate. This would look amazing in 1/32 scale. Thanks for looking at my stuff, as always

Hello all, I’ve hankered after building the famous “VeRA” (more formally known as ‘The Mynarski Memorial Lancaster’) flown by the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum out of Hamilton, Ontario, ever since it made the long trip across the Atlantic back in 2014. I was invited up to Biggin Hill where she was residing whilst displaying at the Eastbourne Airshow and seeing her sitting on the tarmac along with the BMMF’s Lancaster, I instantly fell in love! This love affair was exacerbated seeing her perform at numerous air shows during the time she was in the UK. Fast forward 11 years (how has it been that long?) and I’m finally getting around to it - using the Tamiya classic 1/48 kit as a base. Tamiya’s kit is very well known so there’s no need to go into any detail describing it, but as we all know it comes in BI/BIII guise with the classic Frazer Nash FN50 mid upper, which is not suitable for the Canadian Lanc, being a MkX and fitted with the later Martin Turret. There are also a few other subtle differences, such as the fuselage window arrangement (the centre section is actually a replacement from an earlier machine) as well as a modern aerial fit. The picture below, borrowed from the CWHM’s Facebook page and used for illustrative purposes only, shows her in all her glory: So… I began by building up the interior out of the box, the only change to the Tamiya instructions being to paint the seats in a deep red as seen in photographs of her in her warbird guise. I’ve used an Eduard set for the instrument panels and seat belts, and added the second control column from an old Lanc I built years ago and have since salvaged - VeRA is dual control and always flies with a copilot, as do the BBMF. I have carefully studied pictures of VeRA and blanked off and filled the appropriate windows, and the main mod has been blanking off the mid upper position and opening up a new one above the rear escape hatch. The Martin turret, being heavier, was moved forward to restore the correct CoG. I’ve also made the fairing for the turret and added the strengthening strips on the fuselage from plastic card. All raised panel lines lost in the filling/sanding process have been restored using a sharp scalpel and a dousing of TET and then a light sanding back. I’m in the process of converting a 1/48 Monogram B-24 to a Privateer, so fortunately have a spare Martin turret. The MkXs were fitted with a ‘high hat’ dome but the B-24 turret is earlier, lower version, but with no other option I’m aware of in 1/48 it’ll have to do. Today the fuselage has had a squirt of primer and, so far, so good: I’m really enjoying this so far - more when there’s more… Cheers, Tom

Hi all I just wanted to share some findings in my selection of Lancaster kits by Airfix not sure if this is the correct section so apologies. If it’s in the wrong section I have 4 kits of different livery and came across something. sprue C parts 3 to 6 bomb doors where there is a support spar. Out of 4 kits only one kit has all 4 parts intact. anybody seems like these parts need more protection. I tried to insert a picture but was unable to sorry

Finally uploading images of this project, which was completed mid 2023. The story behind this is much the same as my recent Mosquito topic. A family member acquired a wristwatch that contains a part of ED825, one of the Lancasters deployed on the Dambuster's raid. The aircraft survived the raid, but sadly crashed some time later. I created this model for my relative as a Christmas present. Sadly, they became incredibly unwell around the same period, and although they did receive the present, they passed away in early 2024. I was at least glad they got to see a depiction of the aircraft they were carrying around with them at the time. For this build I employed an Airfix 1/72 B.III special kit, along with a Zvezda aircraft stand (with some modification to mount the Lanc to it. I decided to depict the bouncing bomb having been dropped, and with a strange quirk of the water gel I applied retaining a bit of whiteness, made it look a little like moonlight. KitsWorld decals were used for the correct numbers and letters, although they required a hand overpainting in order to match the correct letter colouring (being too red orange). Two small disasters accompanied the build, one being the tearing away of decals on one side that nearly ended badly. The other right as the model was completed when a mysterious drop of a still unidentified fluid got onto the right wing and ate through every layer of paint, requiring some emergency surgery and repaint that thankfully paid off 😰 Anyway, here's the finished article Thanks for looking as always ^-^ Gaz

Hello! This is my recent project, an Airfix Avro Lancaster, 1/72. I usually build 1/48 aircraft, but this one would have a 60cm wingspan, too big for my space. Having built a few nice Airfix new tools, I have to say I was a little disappointed with this one. The fuselage halves and bomb bay doors were all warped. Not beyond repair, but it took quite some time to have them fit properly, even though not perfectly. I think that if I had tried to leave the bomb bay open, it would be a challenge. And almost all the clear parts came with some minor scratches. The canopy have you to glue 3 parts to build it, which was quite fidlly, since they are far from being precisely molded. Finally, the plastic is kind of rugged in general, which doesn’t add for the painting finishing, decaling and washing, IMHO. The decals were just fine, no issues at all. Eduard clear parts masking is really recommended! Hope you enjoy Cheers!

Hi everyone, I need some advice, other than referral to a psychiatrist. I am collecting parts for the 1/32nd scale Lancaster - Dam Buster. I am playing around with the idea of doing a conversion to a Shackleton. Does anyone know of suitable 3rd party kits for the Shackleton at this scale? Or is this more something to delve into the spares box and possibly look into the 3D printing option? Also does anyone see any major hurdles to cross with this conversion atttempt? Thanks Michael BTW... yes, I do know that the Shackleton was post war....but I figured starting with the Lanc.

Here is my latest project - The Revell Lancaster with a cut out to show the interior. I used the 1/72 Revell kit along with White Ensign’s interior PE, resin wheels and gun barrels. Further more i did some scratch building in the interior area and fixed the dihedral wing problem, as well as an attempt to replicate the stressed skin effect (almost invicible on the photos). The clear parts was a bit distorted especially the top turret, but @rs2man came to the rescue and peovided some new turret parts. Thanks a lot 🙂 Again it was one of those builds where i had to stop adding details as it is possible to go on forever. I should have done more work on the open engine, but i lost patience. So here it is. I hope you like the pictures. …thanks to a few comments here in this thread, i repainted the cut out edges red. I totally agree that it looks much better 🙂

Hi All, This is my build of the Lancaster Dambuster. I've used the 1/72 kit from Airfix. The open Merlin engine is from an Aires detail set and gun barrels and main wheels are from Quick Boost. For colouring I've used Gunze Acrylics and Alclad for aluminium finish. Weathering and exhaust streaks where done with oil washes and oil paint. The build was straight forward. A friend of mine a professional photographer took these photos, hope you enjoy it. (In the first picture there is a big gap between fuselage and canopy, the canopy is detachable and I didn't put it on properly, I only noticed after the photos where taken, the photo is more to show the engine) Cheers, Alex P.S. I got asked to show some close up pictures of the Merlin Engine, hence I am adding the 2 additional photos below.

Hi modellers. [Edited october 9th 2024] This post started in another section but was rightfully moved to WIP as the thread took a turn. So this has become my first WIP post. This is my build thread for the 1/72 Revell Lancaster, build with full interior and a cut out on the right side fuselage to show the interior. Model: Revell 1/72 Lancaster B.I/III Extras: White Ensign interior PE Resin wheels Resin guns Eduard masks Modifications: Fixing dihedral issue. PE and scratch building for the interior. Cutting out a portion of the right side fuselage to show of the interior. Creating stressed skin effect to the fuselage. Riveting fuselage and wings. [end of editing] ———————————————————— I’m about to start a 1/72 Revell Lancaster build. I can tell from multiple posts that the wing miss the dihedral. My kit has some dehidral (se photo). Did Revell fix the problem in later batches or is the dihedral not enough?

UPDATE: The original Wingnut Wings project (2018) is now the hands of Border Model (2021) Three new Wingnut Wings kits in development to be announced at the All Japan Model & Hobby Show in Tokyo - 28-30 September 2018. Source: http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/ - ref. 32043 - Avro Lancaster B.Mk.I/III : 1/32 - http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/product?productid=3193 - ref. 32044 - Avro Lancaster B.Mk.III "Dambusters" : 1/32 - http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/product?productid=3194 - ref. 32062 - Halberstadt Cl.II (late) - see Britmodeller thread here: link - Scale: 1/32 - http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/product?productid=3195 V.P.

hello, I'm in the process of building a Lancaster that took part at the operation Catechism. Having an old Hasegawa kit (1:72) and the conversion kit from Alley Cat I found that there is also the special bomb sight included with the conversion kit. Searching for more information about this bomb sight (Special Automatic Bomb Sight, SABS) I could only find a few photos and a Wiki article about it. Aren't there drawings and other detailled plans of this interesting object around?

I was given a Dambuster book as a present, which had sleeves containing flight plans, logbooks etc. On looking at Guy Gibson's logbook, I made an interesting discovery. The last entry before the raid was regarding the dress rehearsal, that included flying over 'Colchester Reservoir'. Strange I thought, posted here with 3 PARA in 2000, retired from the Regiment in 2011 and stayed in Coly - I do not know of 'Colchester Reservoir'. I know Abberton Reservoir, which is 3Km away where I often take the kids, has a small nature reserve. http://www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/abberton-reservoir So I bought the book , 'The Dambusters Raid', by John Sweetman. This described how the area was used to train the crews whilst the 'revolving depth charge' was developed and tested. The road 'dam' crossing the reservoir from Layer de le Haye was indeed the simulated target over those weeks. I now can imagine the noise of those Merlin engines at 60ft in the night, as waves of Lancaster MkIII (type 464) bombers practiced for what was to become the most audacious bombing raid of WWII. On looking further, I found that much of the testing for the 'Upkeep' device was carried out at Reculver, in Kent. Prior to our move to Coly, 3 PARA were based at Dover for 5 years, and I spent some time up on the North Kent coast carrying out various training activities. With a natural interest in all things aviation and military, (I was bought up in Lakenheath and school was in Mildenhall and then 25 years in the Army!) I knew the basics about the Dams Raid and 617 Sqn. But this grabbed my interest and I have some good reference material. I am normally a 'Jet' builder, but have decided to trace 617Sqns history with models. I have bought 3 x 1/72 Lancs, 1 x new Revell, 1 x old Airfix and 1 x new Airfix tools. The plan is to build them side by side, in flight to hang in my den (double garage!). I have also managed to get a Tamiya 1/72 Mosquito Mk VI, 1/72 Academy Mustang III, as flown post Dams raid for target marking. Looking forwards, I have then got a 1/72 Vulcan (I know, a fight!) which will be a B2 but in anti flash white, a Revell Tornado GR1, possibly converted to GR4 with the special 70 years markings. I am looking for a 1./72 Canberra B2 (difficult to find with the correct canopy) or a B6 - references for these in 617 Sqn markings seem rare, even on 617 websites etc. Now there have been various BI/BIII mods, also the BVII. My logic says the 3 BII (464s) cover it! Then there's the Lincoln - hmm, I take the only option is a conversion from a Lanc? Not original I know, plenty have done it, but with local connections and something different, I thought, 'why not'! Another project in the same vain: https://modelbrouwers.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=40310 Clearly a long term project, but something different for me until the GBs that interest me kick in next year. So I have started, will post some pics. Any advice, direction, references, spare Canberra's etc welcome!

Hi Everyone, I've only just got into modelling and this I would call my first real build. I did a Euro fighter from Airfix first but it was more just to see if I enjoyed it, which I did, so I'm going to try and do justice to this historic plane. Here's my progress so far... Any help or advice is gratefully received!

Does anybody out there know, which type of Sutton harness was used on the Lancaster bomber's pilot seat? Are there also any aftermarket belts for the other crew stations available? I'd like to use paper ones (HGW, RB) in my future 1/32 project.

Hello everyone, I live about a 10 minute car ride from the Möhne dam, so naturally I had to build a dambuster. I did, about 15 years ago, the Revell one (others hard to get here). Not the newer version that happened to turn up in stores a few months after, but the decade-old animal with no interior (just like with my B-17). I did some upgrading, without any AM parts but strickly selfmade. Well, almost, I got a spare pilot seat from my pal who had a new "normal" Lanc, and I peeked into his instructions for building an interior. The crew was on board, although the only visible thing of the radioman was a piece of yellow lifvest through the window. After that, I moved several times, and the model disappeared in a box. About 2 weeks ago, I got to, well, upgrade my show-cupboard, suddenly had lots of empty room, and while looking for things to place there stumbeled upon the Lancaster. By accident I got the idea for a display... and here it is. A plank with half a plastic chopstick. Horribly silvered decals. So be it. No time to upgrade, didn't want to wait half a year for the full anniversary. ) No, you haven't had a pint too many... one focus on the pilot and flight engineer, the other on the maps of the navigator. The cockpit hood (is that correct with such a big thing?) had come loose during storage, and in an unfortunate accident the radioman went AWOL. I got him of course, but there's no way to get him sit at his post again. I decided to do Gibson's plane. Starting with the wooden stand, I wasn't sure if I had a good idea or if it'd turn out absolutely hideous. Actually, I'm rather pleased with it. What do you think? RRRROOOAAAAARRRRing across the water towards the dam... That's all (for now, might redo some things, like the prop discs), Johnny Tip out. (No mention of the codeword for success? ... No.)

AVRO Manchester in RAF Service Photo Archive Number 23 ISBN: 9781908757364 Wingleader Publications AVRO designed the two-engined Manchester as their response to an Air Ministry requirement that was issued in answer to the clouds of war that were gathering over Europe, and the prototype first flew just a few scant months before War was declared following Germany’s failure to withdrawn their invading army from Poland. The first Manchesters entered service after the “phony war” was over, and hostilities had been ongoing for a year, and while it wasn’t everything that it had been hoped to be, its crew did their best with what they had available, putting up with the powerful but unreliable Rolls-Royce Vulture engine that had to be de-tuned in an attempt to improve its reliability, although with little benefit. The Manchester laid the groundwork for the Lancaster however, as it was designed with ease of manufacture, maintenance and repair in mind, which made the upcoming four-engined Manchester B.III a less daunting task. The more operations that the Manchester undertook, the more the type’s shortcomings came to the fore, although some of these were resolved. The first grounding of the entire fleet was due to engine bearing failure, with the second due to control anomalies and flutter, plus other problems too numerous to mention. Production was halted at just over 200 airframes toward the end of 1941, as the Manchester B.III, which was now called Lancaster, was showing promise, and re-engined with the trusty Merlin engine in place of the troublesome Vulture, it wasn’t particularly missed, although the prototype Lanc showed its origins in its fuselage design and tail, the central fin lingering only as far as the prototype, thankfully. The AVRO Lancaster became the mainstay of Britain’s Bomber Command once it reached service, pushing out the inferior Stirling and mediocre Halifax, burying the memory of the disappointing Manchester to become the workhorse that was the Lancaster, which seemed able to transport any bomb load offered to it from sea mines to specialist bouncing bombs and the Grand Slam earthquake bombs that were used to great effect toward the end of the war. The Book Printed in landscape format to match the rest of the Photo Archive volumes, this twenty-third book in the series is written by Peter Allam, whose name may be familiar if you have read their Lancaster series, as knowing about all things Lancaster requires the aircraft’s heritage to be understood first. Consisting of a genuine 72 numbered pages and more photos and information printed on the insides of the covers, it is printed on a satin stock in colour, although the colour is only see on the annotation and the profile pages that are spread amongst the book with copious notes to assist the modeller in building their next model. Covering the Manchester from start to finish, it illustrates the raft of the amendments and upgrades that the type went through to improve its performance, some of which would be important due to their reuse in the Lancaster later. In some ways, the Manchester was a first attempt at creating a truly versatile heavy bomber, even though it was never intended to be a “heavy” at outset, and its development headaches helped short-circuit the development of the Lancaster, shortening the gestation and bug-hunting that was inevitable with any major aviation project of its time, and still is to a great extent. Some of the photos are staged of course, but there are also a large number of candid shots, some interesting in-flight shots, and a few of battle-damaged aircraft that are doing a creditable impression of a colander. A few more aircraft are shown lying flopped in a field or runway after issues during take-off or landing, and one of a Manchester that was forced to crash-land at the sea’s edge on the way back from a mission, although the full crew survived that one to end the war as POWs. The photos of the crew or pilots who were later lost in other raids are saddening, seeing the smiling faces of these brave young men that were understandably unaware of their impending fate. Conclusion A visually impressive book with plenty of reading material into the bargain that will have you coming back to it again and again, although finding a kit of the Manchester in almost any scale is an achievement in itself, a fact that isn’t lost on the editor Mark Postlethwaite in his introduction on the inside front cover. Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of

PM-M Built a couple of years ago. Made it so that Engines #1 & #2 had removable cowlings by making the Merlin exhaust stacks removable. Now that I am using Imgur with some success Links BCC. Thought i'd share these images:

This build has been on and off for the last two and a half years. Appropriately enough I finished it now, exactly 80 years after the famous dams raid the night between 16th and 17th of May 1943. The build was relatively trouble free, just a lot of filling and sanding to blend everything together as well as a quite labour intensive masking job for all the clear parts. A masking set would have been a clever investment. Feel free to comment and critique Isak

all the bits plus crew

The bench is cleared for a commission build of a 1/32 HK Avro Lancaster Type 464 in Operation Chastise mode. Have to be honest, the box picture is more exciting than the opening of the box. The well documented poor HK packing was evident but everything was thankfully in one piece. Two nice instruction books, one for the standard MkI/III build and another with the special bits for the Dambuster build. Also a nice little extra a little book called "Rad Shutters Auto" by Stuart Reid, a former BBMF pilot. Nice little touch. The failings of this kit are well documented but, I love a challenge and it was the only option really. My client wanted a Dambuster aircraft and, of course, the Border model is a ferrari against a ford in their base state but there are no Border Lancs about at the moment and God knows when or if a 617 squadron one will come along. With lots of work, reshaping, scratch building, tons of research, ( I'm about 30 hours of research in already and still only sorting out cockpit layout, there's a brilliant kit to be built. The floor for the pilot's seat has to go, it's way too high and misshapen. Pilots seat is very poor but a resin one from Resin 2 Detail is in the post and the IP is frankly, disgusting for a £300+ kit. Thank the Lord for Peter and Airscale. Their IP arrived today and, as ever, it's superb. Also got one of his new branch out of seatbelts for the pilot's seat, they look more RB than HGW. I'll get that made up tomorrow. The eyes will suffer for that one! Spot the deliberate mistake BTW? I've gone and ordered the Sutton harness in 1/24 instead of 1/32 Still, it'll be fine for the new spitfire in the autumn So today, the horrid box construction that the pilots seat sits on has gone, I'll reuse some of it for height but it needs a total reshaping before that. The engineers panel has been filed smooth ready for the Airscale PE plate. I've removed the two little star shaped knobs first though for further use. Go in through the back with a ball cutter and they just pop out. Thanks to Nigel at Nigel's modelling bench for that one. Used it on the Hellcat too. I've made up the pilot's seat too just to get a feel for the fit and hardness of the plastic although I won't be using it. That's about it for now, got a trip to Lincoln at the weekend and maybe a detour to look at a Lancaster.........

Built this over a period of just over 2 months, a 1/72 Airfix Lancaster Dambuster. My first impression of this plane when I cut out the wings and fuselage was the wings have big surface area relative to the narrow fuselage. It didn’t help that the recess lines are only a few on the wing top, and deep and wide for 1/72 scale. Some work done on this plane includes; - filled and scribed rivets on the wings and fuselage. It was worth the time and effort to do this. Those who build this Airfix Lancaster can see what the visual difference between a scribed rivets and kit recessed lines wings. - hollowed out the front of the 8 air scoops by the side of the engines. - wanted to put in 2 transparent rod for the lights as well as act as support. Didn’t make it because the acrylic rods are not strong enough to support the flying plane. Instead, I have to put a single tube at the back of the fuselage to receive a 6mm acrylic rod. - tried some painting and weathering techniques. - first use of elastic rigging lines for the comms line on the plane. Highly recommended. Flying low into Germany This is the link to the in progress post Operation Chastise

If you fancy a rummage through Wingleader's Lancaster Volume 3 (Photo Archive 18), then Model Nerd on Youtube has done a super detailed half hour review. No detail ignored! Check it out at:

Hi all, The latest Dambuster boxing from Airfix… Cheers Guy