Shawn M Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 nice clean work thus far! keep rollin' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroenpeters Posted March 7, 2011 Share Posted March 7, 2011 It's alive! It's alive! Great work Cees! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted March 13, 2011 Author Share Posted March 13, 2011 Still sanding, sanding, sanding, does it ever end....... Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 (edited) Well, Progress is good, the nose section has been glued to the airframe and the engine nacelles are nearing completion. A lot of parts have been recycled from the donor kit (Grand Slam). The flame dampers were cut to size and glued to the nacelles sides and the surplus bits were sliced to get the small inlet and outlet that sit between the exchaust dampers used on the Manchester and the Lancaster carburettor intakes fit very nicely futher aft on the nacelle fairings. I am very pleased how the nacelles have turned out and other than some more cleaning up and filling holes, I only need to make the radiator shutters and from that it's plane sailing. The undercarriage is Lancaster using FM Halifax wheels which are a bit smaller in diameter than the Tamiya Lancaster or the Paragon wheels I had. One problem left to solve is the propeller blades, the Lancaster ones are too short. So I have to lose some sleep over that one. Perhaps 1/48 Hurricane or Spitfire but I don't know if they are long enough. The Manchester had some huge propellers. Any ideas? Hope you like it Cheers Cees Edited March 15, 2011 by Cees Broere Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancman Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Cees the kit prop blades are paddle blades the Manchester would have had the needle one's, in the newer release of the Tamiya Lanc MkI it comes with both sets of blades so maybe someone won't use the needle one's? Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted March 15, 2011 Author Share Posted March 15, 2011 Graham, True, but they are too short in diameter. Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancman Posted March 15, 2011 Share Posted March 15, 2011 Ahh yes very true, I don't know if this helps but I think I read somewhere that the Manchester props were 15' 6" in diameter Graham. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted March 22, 2011 Author Share Posted March 22, 2011 Time for an update. Construction work has now finished, all seams have been sanded and given a coat or two of grey paint to check. The undercarriage is fully assembled and is the standard Lancaster from the kit. As far as I know these were identical but for the size of the mainwheel, that has been tackled as well. The tailwheel has been reworked from the Marstrand anti-shimmy type as used on the Lanc into the Manchester (balloon) type by filling the groove and filing and shaping the squarish tyre into the rounded version. Again it is surprising houw many Lancaster parts were modified to suit it's elder brother I also experimented with the fabric elevators by gluing plastic strips to similate the ribs and coating it in glue. after this is fully dry rub it down with sandpaper and it looks much better than Tamiya's rendering, the ailerons were dealt with in a similar fashion. The quality control department (me) has now cleared everything for the next stage, slapping paint all over it. Still no solution found for the propeller blades, any ideas (Fairey Battle?) Cheers Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroenpeters Posted March 22, 2011 Share Posted March 22, 2011 You're the Man(chester)! Great work so far! Cheers, Jeroen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted April 3, 2011 Author Share Posted April 3, 2011 Some great progress has been made. In a marathon session spread over saturday and today I managed to get some camouflage on her as well as the black (which turned into a bit of a situation when halfway the black paint ran out and after some panic mixing the airbrush began splattering drops all over the surface)fortunately it was on the undersurface of the outer wings and it has dried up quite nicely, Yey Revell Aqua. A first for me too was laying the camouflage pattern, but having read enough about this subject it was actually quite simple but the masking off takes a lot of time (not to mention a lot of masking tape). With this progress the decals might be applied later this coming week after some touching up has been done. Hope you like it. Cheers Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeroenpeters Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Hope you like it. Cheers Cees SWEEEET! And I'm not talking about the chocolate that seems to be on sale! You know that I've got 8 hot resin barrels right here for this monster! Just give me a shout and I'll drop them by! Cheers, Jeroen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 that says it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fam43 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Hi Cees, love conversionwork too. There is much fun building an airplane which doesen't excist in kit form. I envy your abbility to do two engine nacelles with miliput. One I could build my self I hope but two indentical? My twins would look like Jekill and Hide. Very nice work so far. Will trace your progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cees Broere Posted April 4, 2011 Author Share Posted April 4, 2011 Danke Mchael, You think making two identical nacelles difficult? You are a master at making impossible kits into great prototypes that no manufacturer has ever thought of of kitting. It's very simple, just remove the bits that don't belong on a Manchester nacelle. Cheers Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
automaton Posted April 10, 2011 Share Posted April 10, 2011 Danke Mchael, You think making two identical nacelles difficult? You are a master at making impossible kits into great prototypes that no manufacturer has ever thought of of kitting. It's very simple, just remove the bits that don't belong on a Manchester nacelle. Cheers Cees You know Cees, this does remind me of something Michael would do. And you've pulled it off-it's looking great, so all the sanding was worthwhile. Congrats on a unique model. Regards; Automaton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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