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[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No38

Hello everybody hope you had a nice Christmas and are looking forward to the new year
Here is the latest update on my build incidentally had anyone purchased the HK Lancaster yet as I would like to see the level of detail they go into compared to this build anyway half my time has been spent on the net researching things like hydraulic fluid tank stencils that sort of thing as I’m not one of those black paint scriggly white line this represents so called writing on the said object in this case the hydraulic fluid tank as you can see from the supplied photos
I have also done a montage of all the stages built in the last 2 months not much but it is very time consuming waiting for paint and glue to dry
We sre now at stage 71 out of 125 so I hope some major components will soon appear and it will start to resemble an aircraft instead of a crash
The next stage which you can see on the right in the plastic bags is the main connection board consisting of about 30 seperste wires to be attached will post photo when done

Regards
Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No39

As per previous entry here is the main panel the idea of just gluing on the wires to their terminals failed totally any sort of tension and they snapped off
My solution using the pins as a template redrill all the terminals into a piece of wood then file down the terminals flat stick the pieces of wood over them then glue the wires into the holes
Paint the ends of the wires silver where they join the panel to resemble the terminals result a virtualy unbreakable bond just got to persuade the said panel to fit into place and thread all those wires to their various terminating points oh and one more thing I glossed varnished the dials to resemble glass tops

Regards

Colin

[scottie3158]

Colin. Happy New Year it's good to see this on the go again the detail you are adding is excellent.

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 40

Fitted the panel last night no snapped wires this time all wires now with exception of 2 which require the roof to be installed are now attached or threaded through the formers ready to be attached where needed hope the photos show the detail 1st up is the view from the left or portside looking into the fuselage then the second shows the right or starboard side from the outside showing the wires going through the formers towards the front of the section and the attachment of the engineers panel wires and finally 3rd picture shows the wires going to the back of the section again through the formers right old fart and fiddly job was this took about an hour to accomplish

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update 41

After 2 months of trying to find a way of replicating minature aluminium basket weave for the oxygen bottles I believe I have and it can be repeated for the others as well
After trying fine cotton ,pins ,bits of plastic fly weave and a metal tea strainer mesh I came up with the framework shown in the picture using fine copper wire stretched over the framework the wire is the thickness of a human hair and came from the serial cable lead
Next came the R1155 receiver and T1154 transmitter after numerous attempts at creating a minature of these items I gave up as they looked nothing like they should so in the end all I did was use a block of wood painted black and a laminated minaturised photo of the transmitter and receiver not exactly how I envisioned it but it looks ok to me
Finally there is the morse key which is made from a scrap of plastic card bonded together with some cut off pin heads for the contacts and punched card circle with a whittled down toothpick to represent the main button used for transmitting these will all be mounted into the aircraft after I have made up some more bits and pieces namely accumlators / batteries and various leads to connect all the radio gear together

Regards

Colin

[scottie3158]

Colin,
Some great looking details.

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 42

Just a small one this time showing finished scratch built wire basket attached to pilots chair holding oxygen bottle and the T1154 & R1155 Transmitter & Receiver radio gear + the morse code key unit in its final configuration and fitted into the fuselage at the radio operators station
There are some more pieces to be added but its debatable that they would be visible I won’t know that till I have made up some of them and fitted them where they should go will be tackling them tonight if all goes well

Regards

Colin

[minitnkr]

Just amazing. PaulE

[scottie3158]

another great update.

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 43

Ok so the pilots seat is done along with his oxygen bottle and wire basket holder
Next is a revamp of the wirless station for which better known reasons to themselves Hattchet didn’t bother with other than a table and chair
1st off i ordered a belt hole punch from ebay with the arrival of that the wirless station version 5 could begin
So taking the hole punch and the smallest hole availabe on the rotating die i puched out 6 small discs which would become the knobs on the radio equipment
I then got a laminated picture of the said radio gear (Note the radio pictures are from ebay the eduard panel above is merely in the same shot and nothing to do wiith this build ) and cut it into small segments these were then glued to a piece of plastic of suitable thickness in this case a business card
This in turn was cut out so i had each part mounted on the plastic these were then mounted onto another laminated picture of the radio gear giving the 3d look
The buttons were sanded so all the rough edges were removed using a pair of tweezers to grip the button then rolling it across some fine sandpaper until smooth these were then painted the correct colours and left to dry
Next off was cutting out the radio frequency tuning band window by drilling small holes and joing them together and finally fileling the result to the correct shape then the large tuning knob was added and painted
Next the buttons now dry were added to the transmitter along with the switches on the right hand side and the one at the bottom
These completed items were then glued into place on previously constructed radio panels these in turn were then mounted into the radio station in the fuselage
Also at this time a morse code key was fashioned using scrap plastic shaped and painted and some buttons were made from the insulation of some copper cable of which 2 strands were twisted together to form the lead from the morse key to the radio equipment
A couple of long boxes were added along with bits of scrap to resemble the HT and LT PSU’s you can see one underneath the fishpond reciver display on the far left the other one is on the floor and not visible in these pictures well thar’s it for this section I might add some more detail depending on what’s visible when the whole thing is bolted up so to speak

After adding the photos they appear in a random fashion not how they are supposed to run this was the reason for deleting the previous entry oh well start with the belt punch and try to follow accordingly

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 44

Hello again I have just finished construction of the portable oxygen cylinders and wire baskets and I thought I take you through the process in case anyone else has a similar problem the photos are more less self explanatory providing they come out in sequence
So 1st off we take our wire this was stripped from a usb cable and the individual wire strands were separated
I then made a frame / loom to wrap the wire around lengthwise and across securing the ends with super glue
Where the 2 strands cross forms the mesh this was then coated in super glue and the excess blown off so all the mesh became unclogged just leaving the glue on the strands
After it had dried it was painted then cut away from the frame loom
I then wrapped it around the oxygen bottle on its mounting as shown glued into place on one side measured off the correct amount cut off the excess and then glued that into place finally took a piece of the offcut and glued this to the bottom of the now formed wire cage
I then used the belt punch to punch out a circular piece of plastic which I stuck onto the top of the cage to represent the gauge this was then painted and when dry I added the gauge detail again using the belt punch but this time using a printed image of a gauge correctly scaled to fit
That is how these were made and will be repeated as required the final stage for this section was to modify the wirless operators chair by cutting off the wooden legs supplied and making my own as shown using rounded wood and some more plastic discs cut using the belt punch again these were painted as the 2 already done are shown
Ok that’s it for this update next one is scratch building seatbelts I hope

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 45

Hello again this time is chair modification scratchbuilt seatbelts the start of the main port wing underside and construction of the starboard rear tailplane
So 1st off the wooden sides on the original seat were removed and substituted for round 2mm wooden legs and pads made from plastic card using the belt punch as in previous items these were then painted black and left to dry
Next the oxygen baskets were finished with the application of thin wire insulation to represent the aluminium banding
Next came the seat belts after several practices using masking tape I settled on some images of a set of 1/48th scale and enlarged them to 1/32 scale then cut them out painted them to resemble fabric and embleshed them with metal buckles made from 5 amp fuse wire wrapped around a plastic former a piece of foil was added to the side of the chair to represent the anchoring point and 2 strips of metal were also added to represent the fastenings and finally 2 more strips were added to the belt to represent the adjustment buckle
The seats were then glued into place in the cabin the navigators seat was also modified with it’s wooden sides removed and a single pivot point was fashioned using another 2 mm wooden piece and a slighty larger plastic disc fashioned in the same way as before
Next on the agenda was the main wing underside port outer skin basicly all you had to do was align the 2 pieces to the bottom panels mask tape them together turn them over and mark the positions of the wing structs and ribs then using the rivet tool mark along those lines after which you painted the innerward side of these panels green to match the rest of the aircraft structure
Finally a second tailplane piece was constructed as per the photo’s and set aside to dry it still needs the wood glue added to it as it was initially stuck with super glue
Lastly I have included a couple of photo’s showing all the components constructed so far

Regards

Colin

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 46

Hello again this time its the ammo chutes and supports along with the start of the 1st auxiliary fuel tank in the starboard wing

So 1st off collect all the parts needed and sand off all the rough edges then paint the bullets brass colour after they are dry then paint the edges and the sides of the the ammo chutes gunmetal whilst that it is drying I constructed an ammo box and painted it the green colour used throughout

Next came assembling the said ammo chutes into the fuselage this was the biggest pia I have had to deal with the brackets weren't wide enough the glue wouldn’t stick and most of the parts broke being made of staybrite which is brittle and has no allowence for flexing then the ammo chutes then had to located onto those said brackets another disaster with more breakages nessecating replcement with plastic card in several of the brackets
9 hours after starting this section I finally had the ammo chutes and the supporting structures were in place see the attached pictures

Next came the starting of the installing of aulixary fuel tank in the RH wing with the 2 halves of the tank glued together and the thin aluminium strips wrapped around for sizing and painting and finally the tank cover was constructed along with painting the tank caps this completed this section next will be another engine build

Regards

Colin

[scottie3158]

Colin,
The great work continues.

[Bigfoot57]

Lancaster 1/32 Update No 47

Ok this time is another engine propeller build along with no 2 & 3 fuel tanks and finally the engine management board is installed into the inner starboard engine housing assembly completing to stage 90 out of 125 next will be more starboard main wing construction

Regards

Colin