Ade's Lancaster Build

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Well I bought the Tamiya kit nearly 2 years ago, spent a fortune on PE and resin bits and then built everything else always meaning to start this kit next. I've seen the builds on here and can say now it wont be anywhere near the quality but I will be using them as reference points, advice always welcomed as always so heres the little bit I've done so far, I did paint the figures a while back but having bought the seatbelts decided against placing them inside.

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Adrian

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[flyjoe180]

Look forward to this one Adrian. Your Lancaster will be great I am sure.

 

[geegad]

nice start ade looking forward to seeing more of your build.and i know it will be a cracker

 

[papa 695]

A very nice start Ade if i may say so

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Seen as you wont see most of the PE once shes buttoned up I thought I would show todays progress

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Once I snow plough the way to my shed I will paint the rear section of the fuselage interior green also.

Adrian

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[treyzx10r]

Looking awesome Adrian,will be watching this one!

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Bit more progress, spent all day doing the PE, I know, It will hardly be seen but its been fun and I know its there

Anyway taking pics to prove it

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[flyjoe180]

Fantastic stuff Adrian, great detail.

 

[mobear]

i`m in love with the PE stuff,and the job you`re doing its great

mobear

 

[geegad]

superb work buddy im in the same place as you pe everywhere put in then paint or the other way round

 

[stona]

Your additions certainly make the rather bland kit interior a lot more exciting. They look really good.Good luck with the rest of the build,it will be am impressive beast!

Cheers

Steve

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Well its been a while but I've got the big girl back out again, the two sections have gone together well but I'm concerned about rubbing it down and loosing the raised detail, so should I take on the massive challenge and re-scribe the whole plane?

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Also got the resin guns to go on, I think they improve the look 10 fold.

Adrian

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[tecdes]

Adrian doing well there.

But do you need to rub all the panel joints out. Certainly sand the joints but then you only need to scribe those bits of panel lost in rubbing down not the whole model. Am I missing something here ?

Laurie

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

The fuselage has all raised lines, if I rub a few down and then scribe em I will have a mix of both, don't think that would look any good?

Adrian

 

[tecdes]

Ah not taken in that they were raised Adrian. Had that problem on one & never more. Tried scribing on either side of the raised area in the hope of producing a raised panel line. Then filled in the crater bit left on each side. Not really very good & a lot of bother when you could be doing more constructive things.

Laurie

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Done a little digging and one chap suggests using Tamiya tape, place it as close as possible leaving a slight gap between two pieces and the use Mr Surfacer to fill the gap, when the tape is removed there should be a slight raised line,,,, or if my luck is anything to go by a huge mess

Adrian

 

[Gern]

How about using a hair or a very thin strand of wire?

Gern

 

[colin m]

Or really thin stretched sprue, to re-instate the panel line. You can then sand it down if it's to big.

Colin M...

 

[Adrian "Marvel" Reynolds]

Well a nice relaxing evening applying the Eduard paint masks !!!!

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as for the raised lines, I noticed a lot will be hidden by parts that are added later in the build

Adrian

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[mossiepilot]

Nice work on the masks Ade, are they shop bought or home made.

Tony.