It's more and more amazing with each 'installment'! Great work Gerry, and I'm really looking forward to seeing more!
Being able to see the step by step progress will make the finished model even more interesting and, I'm sure, even more amazing!
Fantastic stuff Gerry. Let me now if you need some pics in the wheel wells. I think I have some floating around and will likely be in Nanton again on Saturday so it will be easy to get any special requests done.
BTW, our museum's Lancaster now has all 4 Merlins running!
Thanks guys for your overwhelmingly encouraging comments. It's this reaction that's spurring me on to push this build to the limit of my abilities.
Andy, thank you for your offer of photos of the wheel wells. I have some references for these in a couple of published sources. However, if you are going to be there anyway, extra references would always be helpful. I certainly found the earlier photos you took of the bomb bay extremely useful.
Darryl Terry, gotta put my hands up, you got me bang to rights there. Below, for your perusal, is a photo of my workbench...
I had to re-do them George as they all came out of sequence, despite me putting hem in the sequence I wanted.
Gerry, note that this is not a complete restoration so you'll need to ad lib a bit. There's only one fire extinguisher bottle I see in the first pic on the port firewall and none at all on the starboard. These are actually made of copper!
Great pics Andy.
From what I remember, there's also a Graviner plumbed-in fire extinguisher on the engine side of each fire wall, outboard of each engine. These are the ones controlled by the four red buttons on the starboard side of the instrument panel. Got a pic somewhere if you need one Gerry.