1/72 Handley Page Halifax B.III 'Friday the 13th' No.158 Sqn RAF, Lissett, UK

[A4K]

Hopefully Terry or someone can help here then... strange no-one seems to make 1000-lbers...

 

[Wayne Little]

Doing good Daniel....keep plugging away mate!

 

[B-17engineer]

Sweet!

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice progress!

 

[Airframes]

To be honest, either of those types of bombs would do. The earlier type, as shown in the Stirling pic, couild go in the wing cells, as they wont be as visible. The 1,000lb bombs were more of a tactical load, against military targets such as the V1 sites for example. Main loads were incendiary and 500 pounders a lot of the time, especially against cities and large industrial complexes. The incendiaries started the fires, and the blast of the bombs not only caused destruction (mainly disruption too, due to time-delay fusing), but spread the fires.
I should have some pics of the various bomb types and capacities, alongside each other. I'll try to post them in the next couple of days. I want to try to finish my Lanc first, so that I have time free to catch up with all the scanning, CD making etc to send off to various people. I think my local Post Office must think I'm running a world wide video or porn service or something, the amount of packages I take for different countries!!
EDIT:- Forgot to mention - yes, the wing bays were individual cells, with the bulkhead between front and rear.

 

[109ROAMING]

@ Terry!

Cheers guys and thanks for the info Terry!

Pissing down rain here so any paintings off for the evening

 

[B-17engineer]

What time is it over there? It's 12:17 AM here.

 

[109ROAMING]

Its tea time H . Going on 20 past six on a rainy beak evening

ITS MEANT TO BE BLOODY SUMMER!!!!

 

[B-17engineer]

Huh. Opposite. It's warm for winter

Now I stop hijacking.

 

[Wayne Little]

Pissing down rain here so any paintings off for the evening

C'mon that's why umbrellas were invented...

 

[Airframes]

How the hell do you paint with an umbrella?!! A paint brush, or an airbrush, even a bit of string or a pallette knife - but an umbrella?!!!!

 

[Airframes]

Here's the pic showing the comparative size and shape of the bombs. I've got some better ones somewhere, I'm sure, but hopefully this will help. Note that the 4,000 pound and 2,000 pound 'ccokies' in the centre were not fitted with tails or fins - they were dropped ' as is'. The 500 pounder at bottom right is minus its' tail assembly. These would normally be fitted at the dispersal, although, depending on the airfield and the bomb-dump arrangements, they could be fitted to some bombs before delivery to the aircraft. Note that by the time 'Friday' was on 'ops', some units might use both British and American bombs, the latter having two sets of suspension lugs, the single ring-mount, fitted at a diferent angle from the US lugs, being designed to fit British bomb-carriers and systems.

 

[B-17engineer]

Sweet T

 

[109ROAMING]

Certainly an interesting shot T , Cheers!

Spose Il try and get a few of these knocked up in a few days

 

[Vic Balshaw]

That's a fine collection of hardware Terry, that must be some library you have being able to dig up so much info for so many of us

 

[Airframes]

Well, I do have around 100 - 150 books on the shelves, plus another 80 or so, maybe more, on the hardrive, and a shed-load of magazines, cuttings, photos, etc etc. The problem is, remembering where I've seen a particular photo/drawing/plan/profile/article!!!

 

[A4K]

Great shot Terry!

Right, we'll see what we can sort out for ya Daniel...

 

[109ROAMING]

Cheers mate! no rush though

Bloody slack on this bird I know , feeling pretty demotivated with it

 

[B-17engineer]

Demotivated with a Halifax? Wahhhhhhhhhh?

 

[Airframes]

Get her done a bit at a time Daniel - there's still over five weeks left. It's the only Halfax in the GB, so it should look good when done mate. I 'll be doing one at some time- wanted to make it 1/48th scale, but I ain't paying the price for the questionable Fondery Miniatures kit!!
Now Mr. Revell, how about........