turbo
Staff Sergeant
Nice work Gerry and good to see you back in action!
1:32 scale Lancaster Mk.1 Hachette Partworks
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Lucky13
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Great to see you again mate....looking good! 
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Time consuming and fiddly, but great work Gerry.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Always a treat to see these updates. Hurry back Gerry.
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Talking about women again old boy?
Great work so far Gerry!
SANCER
Senior Master Sergeant
It's great to see you again in action Gerry !!
The wonders continue with your great bird.
Saludos y excelente semana
The wonders continue with your great bird.
Saludos y excelente semana
fubar57
General
With all
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Gerry
Staff Sergeant
Hi everyone,
I've been working on the bomb bay since my last post. I had thought that I would have finished this section by now but it's taken longer than I thought – not helped by taking one step forward and two steps back in some cases. I was going to hold off on posting until I had finished but feel that an interim update is required at this point.
I wanted to start by detailing the sidewalls of the bomb bay with the many pipes and cables apparent from this reference.
A further great reference was the comprehensive series of photos in the Nanton Lancaster's bomb bay, taken by Andy (Crimea_River), posted to this thread on page 8, post no 157. This gave me a great idea of the pipe runs and the amount of them.
I started with various lengths of painted brass rod and plastic rod.
I simulated the joints with white painted chrome tape. In retrospect, this needs to be toned down by weathering, as it looks very stark against the black pipes. My original intention was to pre-assemble all the pipes of the run on brackets and then introduce them into the bay. After a few failed attempts I abandoned this idea and mounted them individually, pipe by pipe, directly into the sidewall. This was time consuming and fiddly but successful in the end. Below is the completed portside wall.
The next step was to work on the payload. Here are the pre-assembled, painted, bomb load. These are too pristine and need dirtying down. I am experimenting with the hair spray painting method and have already exposed some rusting on some of the tail fins. Most bomb loads, that I have seen references for, were really scuffed and dirty.
To complete the payload I felt that it would be more accurate to have some incendiary SBCs (Small Bomb Containers) 4lb sticks as in the ref below.
These were scratch-built from five strips of angled plastic strip on a plastic card base. The containers are strips of spare skinning metal shaped into boxes and detailed with plastic strip.
The idea was to simulate the coloured sections of the incendiary sticks with home printed decals but this wasn't particularly successful, so I think they'll need painting.
The final part of the bomb load is the 4000lb cookie. The one supplied needed work to eliminate the gaps between the sections – more correct for an 8000lb bomb but the wrong shape. The masking for the coded strips has been started. Here also you can just see the failed attempt at decaling the incendiary sticks. The decal film was just too thick to follow the contours of the angles and despite many coats of Decal Soft the decals broke up.
The bomb bay doors have both been finished and painted. The one on top is the outside of the starboard door. Here I have exposed the structure of the interior with some scratch-building, using shaped plastic card and strip. The metallic finish needs to be toned down a tad. The bottom door is showing the interior of the port door. The exterior is fully skinned. These doors won't be mounted until the rest of the bomb bay is completed.
Finally, here are some shots of my intended position for the bomb load (this could change between now and the final fit). The plumbing on the sidewall is now less obvious with the payload in position.
I now need to take another short break from this build but will follow through on completing the bomb bay when I return.
Gerry
I've been working on the bomb bay since my last post. I had thought that I would have finished this section by now but it's taken longer than I thought – not helped by taking one step forward and two steps back in some cases. I was going to hold off on posting until I had finished but feel that an interim update is required at this point.
I wanted to start by detailing the sidewalls of the bomb bay with the many pipes and cables apparent from this reference.
A further great reference was the comprehensive series of photos in the Nanton Lancaster's bomb bay, taken by Andy (Crimea_River), posted to this thread on page 8, post no 157. This gave me a great idea of the pipe runs and the amount of them.
I started with various lengths of painted brass rod and plastic rod.
I simulated the joints with white painted chrome tape. In retrospect, this needs to be toned down by weathering, as it looks very stark against the black pipes. My original intention was to pre-assemble all the pipes of the run on brackets and then introduce them into the bay. After a few failed attempts I abandoned this idea and mounted them individually, pipe by pipe, directly into the sidewall. This was time consuming and fiddly but successful in the end. Below is the completed portside wall.
The next step was to work on the payload. Here are the pre-assembled, painted, bomb load. These are too pristine and need dirtying down. I am experimenting with the hair spray painting method and have already exposed some rusting on some of the tail fins. Most bomb loads, that I have seen references for, were really scuffed and dirty.
To complete the payload I felt that it would be more accurate to have some incendiary SBCs (Small Bomb Containers) 4lb sticks as in the ref below.
These were scratch-built from five strips of angled plastic strip on a plastic card base. The containers are strips of spare skinning metal shaped into boxes and detailed with plastic strip.
The idea was to simulate the coloured sections of the incendiary sticks with home printed decals but this wasn't particularly successful, so I think they'll need painting.
The final part of the bomb load is the 4000lb cookie. The one supplied needed work to eliminate the gaps between the sections – more correct for an 8000lb bomb but the wrong shape. The masking for the coded strips has been started. Here also you can just see the failed attempt at decaling the incendiary sticks. The decal film was just too thick to follow the contours of the angles and despite many coats of Decal Soft the decals broke up.
The bomb bay doors have both been finished and painted. The one on top is the outside of the starboard door. Here I have exposed the structure of the interior with some scratch-building, using shaped plastic card and strip. The metallic finish needs to be toned down a tad. The bottom door is showing the interior of the port door. The exterior is fully skinned. These doors won't be mounted until the rest of the bomb bay is completed.
Finally, here are some shots of my intended position for the bomb load (this could change between now and the final fit). The plumbing on the sidewall is now less obvious with the payload in position.
I now need to take another short break from this build but will follow through on completing the bomb bay when I return.
Gerry
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Looks great so far Gerry!
fubar57
General
Agreed
Crimea_River
Marshal
Looking good as always Gerry. Thanks for the update.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Marvellous - it's really coming to lif with that bomb load.
SANCER
Senior Master Sergeant
I agree with everybody. 
Gerry, does not cease to be an awesome job, wow !, we will pay attention to the following surprises.
Saludos con cariño hasta Dublin
Gerry, does not cease to be an awesome job, wow !, we will pay attention to the following surprises.
Saludos con cariño hasta Dublin
T Bolt
Colonel
Wonderful work Gerry. It will be a masterpiece when finished.
turbo
Staff Sergeant
Great work Gerry. I find the sponge chipping method very effective for dinging up bombs and drop tanks, etc.
N4521U
Colonel
4 years later I am back, and You are still at it.
Wonderful work. Amazing what can be done with 1/32 scale....
Wonderful work. Amazing what can be done with 1/32 scale....
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Gerry
Staff Sergeant
Thanks Guys for your continuing support. I hope to be able to get stuck back in after the weekend.
Gerry
Gerry
