1/48 Tamiya Avro Lancaster...ENDE!

Wow Alex, you have certainly been busy on the lancaster. what brilliant workmanship. It is a pity that some of that excellent interior detial will be lost. You are doing such a magnificent job. It looks positively real when painted. i love the seats and the inteior as a whole. Looks fantastic. Don;t give up!!

Wow, man!...... that is some crazy model building! It's even unbelievable!!!

The PE seat is beautiful! The detail you are putting in is incredible!

Excellent craftsmanship!

Regards
Noel

Alex, i shall have to see this at home. I have to tell you that your pics don;t show up on my office computer.

Nice detail and very fine scratch building. Scale modelling to the very true word

J

Impressive work my friend ... would be nice to admire this gem in Malta one day mate!

Keep them coming!

Ivan

Alex are you sure you were not an SSM member in the other life ???

Sorry I'm so late to peek but I just froze stiff infront of this true scale modelling experience/lesson and could not move my fingers to type

Keep her coming and keep us thrilled

Ray

TNX Noel, I appreciate it.

I'm glad you like it. BUT...

I do not use any PE or other aftermarket goodies. The Seat and all the rest work is Handmade and its workable. The pillows are made by milliput.

The ONE and ONLY aftermarket item used so far were the Seatbelts. Nothing else.
I'm very bored in making seatbelts.

Wow! Even more crazy!

Total respect to you! The build is magnificent!

THe control panel is out-of-this-world!

Look forward to see more

Regards
Noel

Noel, Brian, Joseph, Ray.

Thank you for your good words.

Ray..
Yes. I dont Know, how it happened really, but I do believe the same thing. I always wanted to meet Brian Cauchi in past. At the moment I met him and few months later met Ivan, Louis and some other guys in Malta, I fall in love with your ROCK! You are Gentlemen, truly Knights.

As i have mentioned before, you are Few. But Giants, and i'm very proud to join your club.

PS...Hey Ivan? I need a SSM t-shirt!!! (Medium size)

AREA -A- RIGHT SIDE FINISHED

Let's start with the railing holder for bombardier’s entry area… That does not belong to this update but we made it in dead time. I used copper wire. I gave the accurate shape (correct slopes and configuration as the real). All PE provide this in a flat type and inaccurate shape…



Looking at the right side of main pilot’s cabin we will meet the Stool of co-pilot, engineer’s control panel, the distribution panel and several ACCESSORIES...

STOOL
The Co-pilot’s stool is quite small as you see ... I built it by thin aluminum sheet, copper wires and pins. The hinge at the base ... is very small. (2mm)





ENGINEER’S CONTROL PANEL / DISTRIBUTION PANEL
Under the classic way of sandwich, I printed all the instruments in Laser printer The colored bezels which are in a square shape, I used aluminum stripes (cake can), making holes with Punch n Die set. I cut it in square and I placed them on the Panel. Many switches are made my evergreen and pin heads.
The Distribution panel was made by the same way.



That's the final result.











In the following update we will see the area (AREA-B-) pilots and radio operator section…Unfortunately I’m out of air compressor...I have to send it to Athens to be repaired…So I will be a little bit late, my Habibs…Since then I will start making all the electronic devises of this section in order to be ready for painting only. Lancaster has more devices than the modern E-2 HawkEye!!!

Thank U for your attention.
Alex.

Alex, i cannot see any of these pics at the office. I shall check it out at home tonight (time permitting!).

bcauchi wrote:Alex, i cannot see any of these pics at the office. I shall check it out at home tonight (time permitting!).

I dont Know what happens...I cam see all of them...I post them by the same way i did on my first post into this topic.
Is that issue for everybody here? or a cookie plays with you PC...????

We have a filter which will not allow certain photos to show up especially if you post through photobucket or a similar site since those are banned. So when you post through them, automatically we cannot see the pics. Not to worry, i shall check them out at home.

Alex, your work is truly impressive!

It's like looking at the real thing!

It's a pleasure to watch!

Regards
Noel

Lovely updates!!!

Ray

Alex, i have no words to describe this work. It is your best ever work and it is going to be very, very hard to beat, this is simply awesome. Keep up this excellent work and those pics coming. By the way your pics are really good too. Way to go my friend!!

Very nice details Alex

Noel, Ray, Luke: Thank U my friends. I will do my best. I appreciate your good words.

Brian..I think that except with your good words...I will agree that I'm trying to achieve a nice result for the scale by being accurate on my improvements...It is a very boring subject... Thank U anyway!

impressive work and amazing detail work, keep posting updates

TNX J.! Lovely comment!

Great detailing, seems to be a promising build.

Great work and also great pics



Wil

Hi super Guys!
I’m late, I know that, but my air compressor was out of work. I had to order a new one…so I couldn’t continue working area by area according to my schedule. So I decided to work on making all the items for the rest of interior section.

Lest go then.
IMPROVEMENTS GOODIES
Harness : by Eduard
All the rest: by Kontex prod.

My work starts by making all the devices of the Lancaster. Too many for a WWII aircraft. For a moment I thought that I was building E-2 Hawkeye.!!!! First was navigator’s and radio operator’s most important devices and tools ... Information in case you build the Lancaster H2S (external is the "egg" that appears at the bottom of the rear fuselage near the door below) should make the H2S devices that are attached on column beside navigator’s table and behind the pilot's seat.







Next comes Bomb aimer’s area which also has its difficulties…
CAUTION ... If you are gonna make a Lancaster you have to document its type for a F.24 camera in the left section of the fuselage in front of the windows cluster.



There is no aftermarket improvement for Aimer’s bombsight MkXIV. You have to build it by your own.



Finishing the major components of Navigator’s, Radio operators and Bomb aimers areas we step forward to main fuselage items. A large number of necessary additions must be done.











After all I had to visit my bathroom!!!!



truly…



Here you can see the electric circuit for the Merlins operation.



And two more for the interior lights



BOMBARDIER





NAVIGATOR / RADIO OPERATOR





MAIN FUSELAGE







WARNING….:
The British wartime HAND fire EXTINGUISHERS were not painted red but left unpainted in Bronze ... Red color fire extinguisher exists on restored aircraft…not wartime’s. Here is the original label for them in case you want to make a decal placard.



According to my sources…The lamps of Lancaster’s interior were white to light Yellow…So I decided to place Yellow LEDS…



But…I couldn’t leave my Lanc without a functional radar

(Home sweet Home///H2S)



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That’s all for today, next we are gonna see the turrets.
Thankk U.

Simply awesome no words can describe this level of detail.

Well done!

J

Magnificent Alex!

Your a master modeller and scratchbuilder!

Love the toilet detail it looks like the current situation in all EU!

Ivan

My dear feelos....I am absolutely speechless.....awesome work throughout Alex.....what a pity we cannot see it here ...what can I say

There' so much detail......well done Alex...u r a fantastic modeller in your own right man !!
Keep them coming buddy
In nannu pec

Joseph wrote:Simply awesome no words can describe this level of detail.

Well done!

J

TNX Jo. I appreciate it.