Trumpeter 1/32 BAC Lightning build

Heinz · Feb 13, 2009

Looks brilliant Ian

Will you be building a hangar to house it? :lol:

Wayne Little · Feb 13, 2009

Jesus Ian

....thats friggin' great man! Well done mate.....

ian lanc · Feb 15, 2009

Thanks guys i'll be glad when its done, my back has been hurting me over the past day so i ain't done much.

Finished off the FOD guards and gun port covers, also been making a rear view mirror for the canopy as the canopy has no detail at all

I've also been altering the canopy frame as trumpeters one is wrong.

FOD guards are scratch made and are removable.

Gun port covers.

The rear view mirror made up of three parts.

Starting to fill parts of the canopy with paint, when its dry i'll sand it back smooth, i'll be hand painting the yellow lines which are on the canopy the kits decals won't fit anymore.

my back was hurting me so i had to put the thing down !!not be long now before its done.

thanks for looking.

Matt308 · Feb 15, 2009

Beautiful work!

Lucky13 · Feb 15, 2009

Phenomenal work Ian and I hope that your is better soon mate!

Airframes · Feb 15, 2009

Great work again Ian. Hope you're feeling better soon. Maybe building big models attracts pain, as I'm b****y sore too!

109ROAMING · Feb 15, 2009

Bloody awesome work!

Hope you get well soon mate

Heinz · Feb 16, 2009

Superb Ian!

Screaming Eagle · Feb 16, 2009

I love it!

ian lanc · Feb 17, 2009

You guys will be pleased to know that its finally finished.

One last thing i did was to add grab/pull down handles/bars what ever you call then on each side of the canopy.

Thankyou all for looking and watching

ian lanc · Feb 17, 2009

Well guys 'n' gals,

Here she is ! The kit only gave you two options of either F1a XM174 or F3 XR711, i went for a F1 as they are my all time fav', the kit only enabled you to make XM174 but after i got a second sheet of replacement decals it allowed me to cut and edit certain decals and i could make XM177

A little history of XM177 'G'..........

ENGLISH ELECTRIC LIGHTNING F1a,92 SQUADRON RAF.

Lightning F1a XM177 'G' first flew in December 1960 and joined 56 Squadron at RAF Wattisham in Suffolk in early 1961. Selected as Fighter Command's Lightning aerobatic team for the 1963 airshow season, the squadron, known as The Firebirds, displayed in the spectacular livery depicted here. XM177 went to 226 Operational Conversion Unit in 1965, serving with various Lightning training flights before being scrapped in 1974.

ian lanc · Feb 17, 2009

Sorry for this guys, but i think shes worth the extra pictures, don't you think ?

ian lanc · Feb 17, 2009

I nearly forgot to measure the baby ! heres how big she is.......

Length .. 18 inches.
Height .. 8 inches.
wing tip to wing tip... 13 inches.
Measuring both the wings and the fuselage is about 26 inches.

Also in the pictures is a 1/48th Kittyhawk and a 1/32nd Hunter to show the size.

This is the first time i've ever made the red FOD gaurds which are all removable and that includes the ''remove before flight'' tags, turned out quite well if don't mind saying, the white XM177 on the front on the FOD gaurd is hand painted on and not a decal.