 | 100% scratchbuild 1/48 lancaster| Modeling Discuss 100% scratchbuild 1/48 lancaster in the Current forums; >besides
Thanks. The pic was, I think, taken last fall.
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09-22-2007, 09:40 AM
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Thanks. The pic was, I think, taken last fall.
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09-23-2007, 07:29 AM
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Love your work plus the backdrop of the 'dambusters' 
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09-25-2007, 10:58 AM
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Country: | Fortunately there are a host of photos and information of the aircraft available on the internet and I have been without much difficulties in detailing the model, in 1/48 scale. But at the same time I found the information about the Dam Buster Lancasters are very scarce.
The engine which I made and duplicated by using resin and scillicone rubber molding shall be added with more details such as the engine mountings. | |
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09-25-2007, 03:14 PM
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Country:  | I think you have made a superb job on the aircraft. Having tryed scratchbuilding
i know how hard it is .Best of luck and keep up the hard work | |
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Country: | To me, this is like restoring a real Lancaster. If there is such a restration taking place at an airport hangar or an air museum nearby, I would've give up all the modeling and join it. Unfortunately my house is not sufficiently large enough to hold an airplane like the Lanc.
I got a DIY etching kit to make various instrument panels in the aircraft.
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Originally Posted by ppopsie  This is 100% handmade, no, 99.9% because I copied two radio sets T1154-R1155 from Tamiya Mosquito as you can see on the previous cockpit photo. The fuselage and the wings were of heat pressed stylene sheets supplied by Tamiya-san, on wooden molds which had been made by me. Wing ribs are in the same material. | It looks great!! very nice work! In the photo that accompanied this quote I see three fuselages and various wing components. Can you go into more detail about how you made these parts? How is the "Heat pressed stylene sheets" formed?
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Country: | I started it by having the DVD "The Dam Busters" first, in early 2005. Then I got some wood pieces from a DIY shop nearby. The grain-less wood material is reasonably soft (not as soft as balsa), has uniform density and is suited for hand-carving.
Information about the Lancaster gathered included the plans scanned from the Lancaster Manual book. I found that THESE are very accurate by comparing them with various photographs, and I could use them by simply resizing into 1/48 scale on the PC and print them on the paper.
Shaping the wood blocks were not very complicated job thanks to the simplicity of the aircraft's shape. I mainly used a middle sized plane and coarse grained sand paper and no magics. | |
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It looks like a tough thing to think out. How did you make the inner struts of the wing so well? And how about all the bolts, screws, and fine lines? Exo knife? 
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Country: | I used 0.2mm thick PET plastic films to reproduce the mushroom rivet heads. Rivet head tool is made with 25 hand sewing needles.
Each wing sectiones were drawn on the PC and printed onto an adhesive paper. The sheet then was to put on a stylene sheet which can be cut easily. | |
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11-14-2007, 07:49 PM
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Country: | Just a little progress. Plane shape of the X like part fitted between the bomb sling arms is from my guess, as deduced from German documents.
Note: not superbly painted markings.
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