BBMF: Lancaster

The kit only comes with a pilot, so I've scrounged together the rest of the crew: Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grubb. 

As the kit comes with no bombs, I've got an after market (AIM Transport Wings) Blockbuster 12,000 lb bomb, and various spares from the stash. 

Navigator... and I've gone off piste from the instructions, it's getting an H2S radar (display unit on the left at the end of the table). 

"Bridge crew" assembled - the Pugh twins will appear in their gun turrets later. 

Also not in the instructions but vital... the Elsan loo that's by the back door (been referring to the Haynes Manual for the BBMF Lancaster 🙂 ) Note the "no step" stencil on the lid. 

Toilet fitted. Users will have to let their feet dangle. 

That's the fuselage buttoned up. 

Far, far off piste from the destructions now - fuselage painted... 

All painted, decalled, varnished... might actually put it together soon 😉
So much easier to mask, to fit the decals, etc., like this. Just got to hope I don't damage it all during assembly now.

(Why's it upside down, Scalemates??) 

Looking more like an aircraft now. 

Uh-oh, time to break out the wasabi... 

A few dodgy bits of fit, Milliput wasabi to the rescue. 

Formation lights coloured and H2S radar dish/antenna fitted 

Daleks: Invasion Earth 

Turrets all done, and chuffed with my canopy. 

Aftermarket 12000lb Blockbuster bomb (Amatol explosive, I decided, hence the green stripes), then smaller bomb load (granted, they're German as they came from the spares collection: didn't have any round-tailed ones to spare) that I christened Stooky Bill, Stooky Sue and the Three Stooky Babbies (Dr Who "The Giggle" reference!), striped up as Torpex rounds. 

Took advantage of this angle before I put the tail turret on: photo down the length of the fuselage 

Open the bomb-bay doors, Hal. Also, radome fitted over the radar dish. 

Bombs loaded 

Bomb doors on (just! They're warped as anything, so are held on at the two ends only). 

Loving my canopy there. Cleanest one I think I've done. 

Lancaster, with all my artistic licence (H2S radar, crew embarked, full and fictional bomb-load, .50 cal cannons aft rather than quad .303's...) 

Reunited with the two Spitfires 

Peek-a-boo Blockbuster et al. 

On the stand 

On the stand... 

With the rear box art