Spanner's brush painted Revell 1/72 Lancaster BI/III.

[spanner570]

Hi Ron. Didn't want to do this without checking with you first but do you mind if I send your Lanc pictures taken in dusk light to my brother, He would be very interested to see them.

Steve, of course you can, and I'm chuffed you think them good enough to share with others.

Ron

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Steve, of course you can, and I'm chuffed you think them good enough to share with others.

Ron

Thanks Ron.

[Ian M]

Cracking good paint job Ron.

[Alun Wells]

Well Ron, did not get soaked catching up on this! Hope you are well. Cracking build, one on my wish list.
Coming back very soon, Tamiya 1:32 Spitfire IXc just arrived, so getting mojo back in action.
Cheers
A

[spanner570]

Thanks for the posts Ian and Alun.

Alun, great to see you back and posting again.

I look forward to looking in on your Spitfire build.

Ron

[rtfoe]

Well painted Lanc Ron, painting with a brush is an artform which the Japanese still do to their lacquered containers like Bento boxes and bowls. It's a thumbs up for brush painters for me here. :thumb2: The mis-aligned decal isn't that obvious unless you're purposely looking out for errors and comments from rivet counters shouldn't stop us from having fun building. You do need to weight your tyres though...I can't help but see a helium filled Lanc. :tears-of-joy:...getting my coat.....taxi!!!

Cheers,
Richard

[spanner570]

........you do need to weight your tyres though...I can't help but see a helium filled Lanc. :tears-of-joy:...getting my coat.....taxi!!!

Cheers,
Richard

...ah, but Richard, all is not what it seems to the casual viewer, and your writings are absolutely spot on....Quite uncanny really, so top marks, as no one else spotted the aircraft for what it is!

What you see is indeed a helium filled prototype being tested by the British Air Ministry in early '43. If accepted, they were to be manufactured en-mass, then placed in groups around rural Lincolnshire, giving the impression of the RAF having far more operational Heavy Bombers than they actually had.

Unfortunately, the plan was a failure. The 'Blow ups' did just that and blew up! This was put down to an excess of a rather aggressive strain of bees, which hatched during the very warm summer of 1943, all trying to make new homes, and not as was first thought, the very hot weather expanding the gas .

Thank you for your post.

Your Servants.
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier.

Balloon Makers Extraordinaire (any shape, any size)

[Gern]

...ah, but Richard, all is not what it seems to the casual viewer, and your writings are absolutely spot on....Quite uncanny really, so top marks, as no one else spotted the aircraft for what it is!

What you see is indeed a helium filled prototype being tested by the British Air Ministry in early '43. If accepted, they were to be manufactured en-mass, then placed in groups around rural Lincolnshire, giving the impression of the RAF having far more operational Heavy Bombers than they actually had.

Unfortunately, the plan was a failure. The 'Blow ups' did just that and blew up! This was put down to an excess of a rather aggressive strain of bees, which hatched during the very warm summer of 1943, all trying to make new homes, and not as was first thought, the very hot weather expanding the gas .

Thank you for your post.

Your Servants.
Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier.

Balloon Makers Extraordinaire (any shape, any size)

Matron! Come quick! Ron's off his meds again and floating off to cloud cuckoo land!:anguished::anguished: Do something - we don't want to lose him!

[papa 695]

Sorry Ron I thought I’d posted on this one ages ago. Cracking work pal.