What do you reckon, a good entry for the BA campaign or what

Mal

Looks great Mal and I bet the PE set is something else!
Only thing puzzling me is that the kits entitled a Dambuster/Grand Slam Lanc and the artwork is a Dambuster?
Can you build either version as they are quite different subjects?
Definately going to be 617 sqn though
Cant wait to see this one given the Holdfast treatment
Nige

Nice one Mal. Ideal for the Bombs Away campaign.
I have always wanted a 1/48 lanc (and somewhere to put it :-) ), so you will have to do a build thread on this beast, so i know of all the pitfalls in advance.
So which version are you doing ?
I have heard it has raised panel lines, so is this true and will you be rescribing it ?
Andy (++)

Well first of all it aint mine and the price tag on the box says £29.99. It was bought in 1993 by a work colleague who has several Dambuster souvenirs and he bought this as a sort of centre piece, I said I would build it for him. I do have a bomber version of this and I have always intended that I would re-scribe it but I won't when I build this. The panel lines are very fine and well done, a picture of Harri (Jetprovost), also a work colleage, in the cockpit of the Taxi Lanc, taken over the wing, at errr (Harri will jump in here with the location), shows raised (overlapping) joints. So the kit is actually pretty accurate in that respect, the problem will be the weathering, which is the reason I normally re-scribe panel lines. Building this kit will allow me to see if I really need to re-scribe them. The real problem will be if the bomb aimers blister should be the extended version, which is another reason mine hasn't been started, because only the short version is in the box.
I have told Trev, the owner, that it will take me sometime before I get around to this but I am getting itchy fingers just thinking about it and the only thing stopping me starting it is the fact that the Royal Fokker D.VII turned up today and that I have to start straight away. The D.VII is an awsome kit, look out for the build articles on the main site.
Mal

if ever a plane qualified for bombs away its this one. go for it, mal!

Hi Mal.
The Lanc your thinking about it NX611 and its at East Kirkby in the loving care of the Panton brothers.
If you havent been yet I would heartily recommend a visit.Seeing "Just Jane" taxi and rev those Merlins is an awesome sight.
My most unusual Dambusters "souvenier" is a limited edition cheese with a picture of Lincoln Cathedral and a Lanc on the label

Hey Nigel,

They're even more awesome from inside! I keep trying to get Mal to save his pennies so he can have a taxi-ride in 'Jane' but the old skinflint just keeps on spending his money on kits! Pah...some people!

Harri

What! I understood that you were going to pay for me to have a cabbie in the Lanc Harri
Mal

Hi Harri.
Last time I enquired there was about an 18 month waiting list for a taxi ride! I can never guarantee when Im going to be around,(not exactly working a 9-5 job),so had to pass.
I have,however,got a 30 minute flight in a Harvard all paid for,just got to arrange the date,so I guess that almost makes up for it.
I am trying to time a visit to East Kirkby in with when the BBMF is returning to Coningsby as their Lanc often does a low flypass and the thought of seeing and hearing 2 lancs in action at the same time is just awe inspiring.
Maybe we ought to drag Mal over one day,an IPMS Armorama day out? Bet hes saving his pennies for the big Spitfire 70 display at Duxford in Sept though

a day out with spitfires and lancasters?
now you're talking!
i would'nt mind a trip to the flying legends show at duxford, i was hoping to go last year, but it clashed with a holiday

Here's me on my way to the Ruhr! I tell you, that smile took about a week to disappear totally! I'd decided before-hand that I fancied the rear turret so when we all clambered on board I made a bee-line for it, sharpish.

I can't describe the feeling of sitting there as one by one, the four Merlins crackled into life. Wonderful!



Harri

exellent photo harri!
and the smile went after only a week? if it were me i'd be smiling for a year
p.s. like the sig line, douglas adams rules!

Thats a huge smile!
Nice vintage jacket as well Harri.
I have a framed photo of Just Jane looking down over my kitchen/model room and am a regular vistor to East Kirkby.

I think we should organise an Armorama away day to East Kirkby to watch Jane do her thing. When she's sat on that pan, Merlins roaring, straining at the brakes, man it's real goose-bump stuff! I'm sure Nigel will agree with me. There's even a Spitfire there, so that should get Mal interested! :-)

Harri

Not wanting to hijack Mals thread Ive started a seperate thread for all this picnic malarky