Avro Lincoln - Python testbed RF403

[zebra]

Here's my Lincoln, just finished in the Lancaster STGB - build thread is here.

 

This is the Airfix 1/72 Lancaster II converted to a Lincoln using the Blackbird Models resin conversion and converted to the Armstrong-Siddeley Python testbed RF403 using a combination of 3D-printed nacelles and bits from a couple of Trumpeter Wyverns. I say 'testbed' but I don't think it really was - this was the third (I think) Python Lincoln, built for use at Woomera in high-altitude trials of the Blue Danube bomb. 

 

It was a fun build - the Blackbird conversion is excellent - just marred by a small SNAFU when a big drop of paint somehow got inside the canopy - hence I've only photographed it from angles where it's barely visible!

 

 

 

 

thanks for looking

Julian

 

[SAT69]

Very nice build. Like the engine exhaust stains over the top of the wing. Well done.

[gazza l]

Amazing conversion, something a little different.

 

gazza the 

[RMCS]

Outstanding 

[Spitfire31]

Pro quality build of an interesting subject.

 

Kind regards,

 

Joachim

[stevehnz]

A great build of a rather different subject. 👍

Steve.

[kapam]

Amazing work.

I have never seen that "testbed" version before; very interesting!

The RAAF flew Lincolns in the post-WW2 years, though I have never taken the plunge for a conversion.

Your build turned out beautifully.

👍👍 

[zebra]

Thanks everyone

 

@Spitfire31 thanks for the kind comment but I don’t think you’d say it was “pro quality” if you got up close to the canopy!

[SafetyDad]

Lovely work. Excellent job on the Python engines. Was this one of the prototypes that could fly on the Pythons alone?

 

SD

[F-32]

Superb work

[zebra]

On 5/18/2020 at 8:39 PM, SafetyDad said:

Lovely work. Excellent job on the Python engines. Was this one of the prototypes that could fly on the Pythons alone?

 

SD

No idea but given the Python had more than twice the power output of the standard Lincoln's Merlin 85, it wouldn't surprise me.