Recent content by rollie

...kept them so far but I'm looking for a new home for them as a set .I've done 6 or 7 different RCAF squadrons. I'll probably loan them to someone for 'hangar decoration"

2 new ones I finished.. a 416 squadron nose art and an RCAF sign I made up from pieces from an old advertisement...

any idea what this might be off ?? it's mounted up to an old washing machine motor , friend of mine bought it at a flea market .

..finished this one today, ...428 "Ghost" Squadron RCAF...H.A. Shewfelt was lost with his crew in 1944 on a return run

..I've been building a series of these, Canadian squadrons , I checked out 4 different Lancasters to get the rivet spacing , then I just riveted sheets of aluminum , they are all painted by hand, then I cut the edges with a torch . They each have a pilot's name from that sqadron that didn't...

....finished my 3rd in the series....431 Iroquois squadron RCAF...pilot's name is one from that sq. that never made it back

One is on loan to the Toronto Aerospace Museum , thats the Ruhr Express one, these 2 are on my website for sale, and theres another big one 4 ft. X 6 ft. in my garage waiting to be framed.

my 2 newest Lancaster nose arts...the McColl-Frontenac indian head one was my test piece...then the 419 Moose squadron is the first in a series I want to do. Its about 28 inches X 29...riveted aluminum then I framed them with rough lumber to resemble shipping crates....the pilots name is a pilot...

..hey Bernhart I'm in Guelph too !

I know what you guys mean , the wife asked me what I'm gonna do with it , and I said "I don't know !" It's going to be over 4' X 6' when framed , my first one I loaned to the Toronto Aerospace Museum......this one ?????

...here's my latest nose art...still have to cut the edge with a torch and frame it . The model is my mum.,from an old pic I had ..she's 90 now, and Aylmer is the little town I grew up in . The rivet spacing is copied from a Lancaster .

hope this isn't a stupid question but what is this panel {engine side cover} made of, aluminum, ? steel ?

I wish !!!...I'm just lucky enough to live only 40 minutes away, so I watch the schedule and get there to see it fly as often as I can. And I'm only 40 minutes from this one too !

a couple of pics i took this afternoon, doing the top 1/2 of 3, and a complete on the fourth . Expensive maintenance !!!

hi everyone, just signed up, myself and my 13 year old son are plane buffs. Ijust finished building this Lancaster full scale " nose art " replica and thought this may be a place where members might like to see it. It's 36" X 66", aluminum with 467 rivets. I built the frame to make it look like...