The wooksta V2.0 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Finally, after being in my mind since 2009 and in build since mid 2013, The Hybrid is *finally* done. I'll try to get some better photos taken soon. Photo by Rob Sullivan IPMS Tyneside. Thread named after a track by Welsh Nu skool Breaks band Hybrid. Finished Symphony was released in 1999 after several years in development.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuWAO9QSG2Y 32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturmovik Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 What version of the Lancaster am I looking at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeaton01 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 That's yer basic LIncoln, and nicely done, to boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Great looking Lincoln, ... Call me weird but ive always liked the looks of the Lincoln. Im still a huge Lancaster fan, however the lincoln and even the Shackleton look good to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Love it - a Lincoln is on my ‘to-do’ list (one day!). Resin or vacform conversion, and from which basic kit? Nice to see the grey/black scheme. Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Ramsden Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Lovely model of a, er . . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ham Hands Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Beautiful Lincoln. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Smith Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 6 hours ago, Sturmovik said: What version of the Lancaster am I looking at? 4 hours ago, jeaton01 said: That's yer basic LIncoln, and nicely done, to boot. 18 minutes ago, Ivor Ramsden said: Lovely model of a, er . . . . @The Wooksta! is a 'what if' specialist, the above looks to be a basic late war Lancaster airframe, with a Lincoln nose and Merlin 85s, plus the contra props off a Shackleton, and tailwheel? with the later 0.50 tail and top turrets. Post war scheme, in 617 markings, maybe a "Lancaster VIII" ? Lee, what the back story of this beastie? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) Cool, a Lincaster, I've always wondered what they looked like. I did have to look twice before I twigged, it looks magic. Have you dome something different to the nos? It looks better on that than any Lincoln I ever saw, but maybe its the overall proportion that gives the effect. Steve. Edited March 10, 2019 by stevehnz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) Time to 'fess up, I guess! It caught out quite a few when it was unveiled at my club on Monday gone. The idea was for a developed 'Special' capable of carrying the larger bombs - particularly 'Grand Slam' - over longer distances with more power and with better armament. So has the deeper bomb doors as standard, it's up engined with Griffons complete with contraprops, the RAE designed nose used by the Lincoln (a similar nose is on one of the wind tunnel models for the Windsor and the drawings for the Vickers 1000 tone Scheme C on the front of the first edition of Tony Buttler's BSP: Vol 3), and the rest of the late Lancaster mods - Lincoln rudders and wheels, Martin mid upper, Village Inn and the FN82 tail turret. It's a real mish mash of a model bits wise. Base Revell B.I/III, Paragon Lincoln nose, Martin turret from an Airfix B26, Village Inn from the Hasegawa Lancaster (all of them have that part as a standard piece on the sprues), nacelles, props and engines from the Frog/Novo Shackleton (probably a Revell boxing as I got a load of them really cheap years ago) and the FN82 tail turret from the current Airfix Lancaster. That really needs some frame lines. The bomb doors are from the old Matchbox Lancaster - none of the bulged ones I had at the time fitted but I can explain that away - along with the anomalous H2S radome - when I write up the back story properly. The scheme is post war but was to have been used operationally had the war continued. 617 Sqn is an ideal choice for a user, but I tend not to go for the more obvious squadrons these days - I prefer subtlety over the more obvious front line users - so if it was being done now, I'd go for something like 44 (Rhodesia) Sqn just to be awkward. There was another two started at the same time. One was to be a post war test drop ship with a shape of a Blue Danube underneath, possibly with Centaurus engines and the mid upper from an Airfix Shackleton. Not sure about the other, possibly 9 Sqn in the far east dropping Grand Slams on hydro electric plants in Korea against the Japanese. Edited March 10, 2019 by The Wooksta! Grammar Nazism 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Very nice. The nose desigh always makes me think of pre-war Soviet bombers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Nice to see it finished Lee,..... and I just know that you liked sowing your usual confusion,....... ya little tinker!!! I thought that you were going to do it in a Tiger Force scheme complete with BPF style markings? It looks superb mate and as usual it has the look back again and scratch your head effect,....... because it is so credible,.....yet weird,...... and that is meant as a massive compliment. I love your WHIF stuff and this one is well up there with your best,..... good luck with the Beau! Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Booty003 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 A very smart looking piece. I really like the contrast between the two colours. Lovely stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 5 hours ago, tonyot said: Nice to see it finished Lee,..... and I just know that you liked sowing your usual confusion,....... ya little tinker!!! I thought that you were going to do it in a Tiger Force scheme complete with BPF style markings? It looks superb mate and as usual it has the look back again and scratch your head effect,....... because it is so credible,.....yet weird,...... and that is meant as a massive compliment. I love your WHIF stuff and this one is well up there with your best,..... good luck with the Beau! Cheers Tony I've a trio of unfinished Lancs that are going in Tiger Force, certainly SEAC markings, at some stage in the near future. The B.VI 'Special' is the first to be done - I'll need some Freightdog wheels for the others and he's out of stock... Just want to get a Shackleton or two finished first. The Beau? Oh yes, after an interminable wait of nigh on two months, Alleycat finally sent out the bits, so I can get on with the Griffon Beaufighter. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMSCHLOM Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 This is pretty cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonners Posted March 20, 2019 Share Posted March 20, 2019 (edited) Well, it definitely caught me out! I really should have looked more closely...Nicely done! Edited March 20, 2019 by Jonners Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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