Shawn M Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 thank you for sharing your journey on this great build! Looks amazing, congrats on a very nice build. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chukw Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Beautiful, Chuck that thing looks huge! Congrats on a real winner, and on such a marvelous thread- cheers! chuk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 (edited) "May 11, 1945. While delivering 24 more POW’s from Brussels to Dunsfold, I recognized pilot F/L Cooke in the group. He showed me snapshots he had taken of one of the Stalag prison camps he was in. This was the final trip of our operations tour." Thanks guys! I really should have waited until I had all the pics ready, but I couldn't stand to wait any longer to post them! After almost 6 months of work (250 hours?), I think it was worth it. Here's a few pics below before I post them to the "Display Case". I really enjoyed this build with all of your support. First, here's a pic of my uncle's flight crew. I can't imagine how terrifying it was to climb into that Lanc on 25 bombing missions with an overall 45% survival rate in Bomber Command.... This build deserves a little tribute plaque.... Now some of the pics in detail. You can see more of them here: http://s253.photobucket.com/albums/hh66/ch...20Pics/?start=0 Edited August 28, 2010 by chuck540z3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 (edited) A few more.... Note the "Window Chute" just forward of the bomb bay doors. Aluminum foil was dispersed by the bomb aimer as the first "chaff" to foil German radar. Since my uncle remembers throwing this stuff out of his bombing position, I had to add one.... Those sliders out of pop cans turned out OK.... Edited August 28, 2010 by chuck540z3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
infideon Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 awesome! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
elger Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 wonderful! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jgrease Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Superb build, and a pleasure to follow! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Koen L Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 What a fantastic build! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vvwse4 Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Brilliant!!!!!! Rick Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian lanc Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 Chuck love how this has turned out And love how you have made the spent bullet chutes. The little pieces of alloy you have made and placed on the inside of the chutes might have not been on this Lanc' ! as these black sections where brackets for the AGLT Village Inn automatic gun laying system, this was fitted on a few very late Lancasters and the idea was dropped because it couldn't tell what was friend or foe ! http://www.spitfirespares.com/SpitfireSpar...n_AGLT_FN15.jpg Cheers. ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted August 25, 2010 Author Share Posted August 25, 2010 Thanks a lot guys! I really appreciate it! The little pieces of alloy you have made and placed on the inside of the chutes might have not been on this Lanc' !as these black sections where brackets for the AGLT Village Inn automatic gun laying system, this was fitted on a few very late Lancasters and the idea was dropped because it couldn't tell what was friend or foe ! Cheers. ian. Who knows?- but I copied them directly from the Mynarski Lanc as close as possible. Ian, thanks for all your help along the way. I thought you were going to give me crap for not putting those thin aerials on the roof, but I'm certain they would break off anyway, so I deleted them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
D_IcarUS_ Posted August 25, 2010 Share Posted August 25, 2010 A great build of a great aircraft!!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Blackcollar Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 OUTSTANTING!!! What a tribute. Well Done! -Al Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted August 26, 2010 Author Share Posted August 26, 2010 Thanks a lot guys! At the risk of being an attention seeker (OK, maybe a little), here's a couple of cool bomb bay pics.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Prop Duster Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 You deserve the attention; very fine craftsmanship. The display base & placard is a great choice to present this fine work Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Kostucha Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Absolutely beautiful. Through and through. I just don't know where to start, so I'm going to just sit back and enjoy your photos. Job VERY well done good Sir! Mark. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jgrease Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Great work - that bomb bay looks awesome! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Azza from Oz Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Beautiful work on the plane. Great to see your Uncle then and now too! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jamie Cheslo Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 Simply outstanding, Chuck. I enjoyed following your build all along the way. Enjoyed the history as well. As it has been said many times before in this thread, this is a fabulous tribute to your uncle. I am sure he is going to be very proud to display the model. Well done! :P J.C. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
foxtwo Posted August 26, 2010 Share Posted August 26, 2010 very nice build of this dark beauty ! Pat Quote Link to post Share on other sites
John Wolstenholme Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 (edited) Chuck, a magnificent model and a fitting and wonderful tribute to your Uncle. One can forget just how young they were. I agree this is special, in more ways than one. Best wishes to you and your Uncle. John Edited August 28, 2010 by John Wolstenholme Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THX1138 Posted August 28, 2010 Share Posted August 28, 2010 Holy mother, I can't believe I only noticed this now. The amount of work and the result is staggering. Truely awesome. And many thanks for sharing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chuck540z3 Posted August 28, 2010 Author Share Posted August 28, 2010 Thank you guys very much. I wasn't quite sure how my uncle's log book entries would be received at the beginning of every update, but I found it fun- and inspiring. My best builds always have something emotional about them, whether it be a favorite aircraft (F-14 for me) or a tribute to a relative like this one. How else do you spend about 250 hours on something if it isn't extra special? After I finish my much delayed 1/32 CF-18B, I'll be building the Spitfire as a tribute to my father (since past) who worked as an airframe mechanic on them while my uncle Will was flying missions in the Lanc. Thankfully, Tamiya has released a great 1/32 version of this aircraft recently, so I'm looking forward to the challenge. Chuck, a magnificent model and a fitting and wonderful tribute to your Uncle. One can forget just how young they were. I agree this is special, in more ways than one.Best wishes to you and your Uncle. John Thank you John and I am also still shocked by how old most of the aircrew where. Average age, it seems, was about 22, same age as my son. I'd be just sick if he was in a war somewhere, no matter how honorable. It seems only weeks ago I PM'd you about whether you knew of a good Lancaster website, since you lived in the UK. As a "fighter jet guy", like me, you didn't know of one, but I did find an excellent source of info here for anyone who might be interested: http://lancaster-archive.com/ The Lanc guys in their forums helped me immensely with serial numbers and many fine details of the Lancaster you'll never find in a book. Special thanks to "ianlanc", a Moderator in their forums and a frequent poster here, for all his advice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
EV2UK Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 Hello Chuck. I have to say what a truly brilliant job you have done. I have finnaly got my stash pile down to a level where I was happy to purchace the Tamiya 1/48 lancaster, I bought most of the Eduard bits quite a while ago and over the past couple of weeks have made a start on my own. I would like to ask of you, if you wouldn't mind letting me know exactly which colours/paint codes and band of paint you used for your lanc, I have had a few builds of WW2 aircraft and have never had an end result quite as go as yours looks. Also, if you wouldn't mind, same question again for your bombs.. Thank You.. Tony.. P.S I'm off to an airshow here in the Uk this coming weekend and will be luck enough to see the BBMF Lancaster fly and thay also have a static one in the museum (RAF DUXFORD) Thanks agian. Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ian lanc Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 http://lancaster-archive.com/The Lanc guys in their forums helped me immensely with serial numbers and many fine details of the Lancaster you'll never find in a book. Special thanks to "ianlanc", a Moderator in their forums and a frequent poster here, for all his advice. :) Thanks for the little 'thankyou' Chuck its very much appreciated and glad our forum and I could help a little But you deserve all the credit in making such a fine model and after seeing how you have made the spent bullet shutes for the rear turret out of an ally can you've got me modding all my rear turrets now ! Cheers. ian. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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