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Hi Chaps, My first trundly for a while. I've had this in the stash for a few years and it looks like a neat kit. Im surprised that none have appeared in the build list yet. My plan is to build it in a local Flash Mod in late November and finish it here if necessary. If all goes well nothing will happen for a month and then it will be built in 1 day. Lets see. It's a Tamiya kit so how hard can it be........

This has almost burnt me out. I seem to have fought it all the way. Im not very good with p.e. so the machine gun and tub are still the spectre of failure sitting on the back of my work space. Im taking a break and building something different for and hopefully will finish this. If I still cant face it I have a few pics of Kingfishers without the gun mounted.

After finishing Revell's B-17 "In Der Fuehrer's Face" my next subject is Airfix' Lancaster b.II as DS824 JI-K of 514 Squadron, which was lost in action on January 22nd, 1944. On their way from their home base of Waterbeach (near Cambridge) to their target Magdenburg, the aircraft was intercepted by a night fighter. It was 01:12 on January 22nd, 1944: the aircraft was never seen again and crew were lost. Most likely, the aircraft crashed somewhere into the IJsselmeer (formerly Zuiderzee), in The Netherlands. The remains of 4 of the 7 crew members were recovered from the IJsselmeer. 3 are still Missing in Action. Those who were recovered are buried in Makkum, Hindeloopen and Stavoren. The missing crew members, Sergeant D. F. Henshaw; Sergeant James Richard Keenen; Sergeant Arthur Pratt are commemorated at the Runnymede memorial. Two of the crew are buried in Makkum. Their remains were recovered by a fisherman in the days after the loss of the aicraft. The navigator, Leslie Noel Millis, (22) from Teddington, Middlesex. One of the gunners, Ernest Allan Lane, from Winnipeg, Manitoba (Can). Another gunner was found near Hindeloopen and is buried there. Wilbur Henry Chapman (26), from Dawson, South Australia The pilot was found near Stavoren. Pilot John Kenneth Williams Although the aircraft was never found, some aircraft parts have been recovered in recent years by a local fisherman. These parts come from an uknown Lancaster wreck, and factory stamps in the metal indicate that the aircraft was built by Armstrong-Whitworth - the same plant that built DS824. Only a couple of Armstrong-Whitworth-built Lancasters went missing in the area where the parts were found, and it correlates with the area where the remains of the crew were found, so there is a fair chance that the parts are from DS824. For the model I'm using the "new-ish" Airfix kit. I'm not going as crazy with the details for the Lancaster as with the B-17, since I am actually learning that little can be seen. I've added some photo-etch from Eduard, and I added some electrical wiring and oxygen hoses from copper electrical wire and very thin solder. The hand-rail was made with some stretched sprue. The Eduard pilot seat. Inspired by some other recent Lancaster builds on this forum, I added rivets. Not perfect, but I feel that I'm getting better at this. plodding along... some more interior stuff to be done, but then I can start painting and assembling the interior. Thanks for looking and as always comments and suggestions are welcome!