tomcatrio Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Hi everyone, I'm here with a wip for the Dambusters 70th anniversary GB. I know I know, so many 70th anniversary Lancasters going around. So I've decided to make mine a little special. I am going to build all the squadrons planes from 1943 to 2013, mostly in 1/72. Starting with the Lancasters. I used an old mould revell, and a new mould revell. (These were in my stash at the time i started 3 months ago.) I also used an Airfix gift set for the dam diorama. the old mould is a sea of rivets, while the new features crisp panel lines.cockpits also tell the difference in terms of detail and accuracyusing a 1/32 GBU, i proceeded to make a 1/72 tallboy bomb.Double trouble! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcatrio Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 After sanding (A heck of a headache on the old tool revell kit), some priming and preshading, it was time to paint some old school RAF colours,green and black revell kits - noticed I've started on the tornadoes. WIP to come as well.Revell new mould..Revell old mould: check out the amount of epoxy and normal putty. This one is definitely not for the starters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcatrio Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) The pair ready to tow into the paint workshop for priming and painting.Masking off for the greenmasking removedsome new method i tried was to do my weathered fading for each individual colour. Followed by masking off for the black.. The easiest task..and finally the smoke stains for the exhausts, using a mix of black, grey and brown.. Edited June 30, 2013 by tomcatrio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcatrio Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 puttied up the prop hubs for the older kit and painteda tractor from the airfix stirling kit was assembledthe airfix dambusters gift set dam arrived from Ebay and i set to workcanopy masking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomcatrio Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 decalled the two kits, and weathered them 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sten Ekedahl Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 (edited) Looking good. Impressing use of the ancient Revell kit! Just one note; due to the dihedral of the outer wings, the exhausts gases from the outboard exhaust pipes on the outboard engines passed under the wings so there was only one streak of exhaust stains (on the side towards the fuselage) on the upper wing surface behind the outboard engines. A very common misstake seen on Lancaster models. Edited July 2, 2013 by Sten Ekedahl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 That is some mightily impressive paintwork going on there, great to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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