Ade's Lancaster Build

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Done a little digging and one chap suggests using Tamiya tape, place it as close as possible leaving a slight gap between two pieces and the use Mr Surfacer to fill the gap, when the tape is removed there should be a slight raised line,,,, or if my luck is anything to go by a huge mess

Adrian

[Gern]

How about using a hair or a very thin strand of wire?

Gern

[colin m]

Or really thin stretched sprue, to re-instate the panel line. You can then sand it down if it's to big.

Colin M...

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Well a nice relaxing evening applying the Eduard paint masks !!!!

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as for the raised lines, I noticed a lot will be hidden by parts that are added later in the build

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[mossiepilot]

Nice work on the masks Ade, are they shop bought or home made.

Tony.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Erm Eduard masks, lol

Adrian

[tr1ckey66]

Hi Adrian

Nice start to the Lanc, the cockpit detail, PE belts etc look great. With regards to the raised panel lines I think your masking tape/filler idea seems fine or buy some suitably fine plastic strip - superglue this in place then sand it back. If the missing line isn't too long I think you'll be fine.

There's some excellent Lancasters featured on this forum and, if the internals are anything to go by, yours is set to join them.

Superb worwork all the best

Paul

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Well, work is progressing slower than expected due to a back injury so finding it hard to sit at my desk for long periods, but I've now started the engines and as I am going to have one on show I could use a little advice from the Lancaster builders.

I have the resin exhausts from Paragon and as you can see from the picture there is a size difference, also the parts in the kit show each side as different where the resin ones are all identical so which do I do and will the larger resin ones cause me any issues when attaching to the rest of the engine cowls?

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[geegad]

love the masking i wouldn't have the patience for that

[Guest]

Nice to see a well detailed Lanc being built alongside Trey's B-17; great work Sir. Cheers Derek

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Progress is still slow due to my back but I've made a start on the bomb bay, as those who have built the Tamiya Lancaster will know the rack is basically just large plugs for the bombs to hang off, well I bought the PE bomb bay set an so have made a start on removing the plugs, they need sanding down now and a sharp knife to tidy them up into line with the rest of the inner detail but its relaxing work

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[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Wow these parts are small even for a 1:48th build, these are the PE bomb bay clips, have 18 of these to make as well !

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Adrian

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[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Latest update on my build, the bomb bay has really come on, once it's painted I'm sure it will look even better.[ATTACH]64607.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]64608.vB[/ATTACH]

As for my engines I decided they looked a little bland to be put on display so I had a little go at improving them, can you spot the difference

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and with my effort to improve them this is how they appear now [ATTACH]64612.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]64613.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]64614.vB[/ATTACH]

Comments welcomed as always

Adrian

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[Dave W]

Some great work going into this build.Ive got one of these in my stash.So far Ive only got the Eduard cockpit and seat belt sets for it. Thinking of getting the bomb bay set after seeing this.

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Latest update of my Lancaster build, Its my first time at pre-shading so hope it works out. The gun turrets look pretty good although I know some should be in the camo colours but completely forgot and did them all in black The bomb bay needs some weathering on it as its just pure black at the moment as well

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