What's halfway between Manchester and Lancaster?

Leyland.
Preston and Chorley aren't too far off either 

Quote from: Nick on February 20, 2023, 09:52:13 AMWhat's halfway between Manchester and Lancaster?

Leyland.
Preston and Chorley aren't too far off either 

Blackburn is close as well........ so the Avro Blackburn 

Avro will not be giving free advertising space to other companies, thank you very much!

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Quote from: zenrat on February 18, 2023, 04:43:30 AMI may have just had an epiphany regarding the Airfix Shack in my stash for which I had no ideas...

Oh please don't clash with my Shack idea!

What do you plan to do to one?  I was thinking of losing two engines, some wing, and some fuselage.

So, a Shackchester.

Yeah but nah.  Back story will have it evolving from the Avro Albany.
So maybe a Shackalbany?
Or an Avro Scott?

Just a quick update to let you know that things are still happening here but rather slowly - just some PSR happening on the nacelles, at the moment (the fuselage was almost perfect).

Once that's finished I'll have to look at restoring some of the detail lost to the "S" in PSR on both the nacelles & the fuselage.

Was looking at installing a full crew* & displaying it in flying mode but the 1/72 figures I have are all so differently scaled as to make the whole thing look ridiculous, so she'll be grounded but with the bomb bay doors inexplicably open.


[*: Full crew will be 6; pilot, navigator/RO, flight engineer, bomb aimer (bombardier), nose gunner & tail gunner.]

Quote from: Old Wombat on February 21, 2023, 07:25:32 PMWas looking at installing a full crew* & displaying it in flying mode but the 1/72 figures I have are all so differently scaled as to make the whole thing look ridiculous, so she'll be grounded but with the bomb bay doors inexplicably open.

It was bad enough with different wargames figures manufacturers having completely different ideas of what constituted 15mm or 25mm, but some crew figures you get in kits are ridiculous. You can't even say that the pilot was 6' and the tail gunner 5' 2" because the proportions are all out.

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Quote from: Old Wombat on February 21, 2023, 07:25:32 PMWas looking at installing a full crew* & displaying it in flying mode but the 1/72 figures I have are all so differently scaled as to make the whole thing look ridiculous, so she'll be grounded but with the bomb bay doors inexplicably open.

It was bad enough with different wargames figures manufacturers having completely different ideas of what constituted 15mm or 25mm, but some crew figures you get in kits are ridiculous. You can't even say that the pilot was 6' and the tail gunner 5' 2" because the proportions are all out.

Yep, two figures were about 25% "taller" but easily 50% wider & deeper than the next closest ... and they were all Airfix!

Then there were the two full & two half figures that looked like some kind of alien race, rather than Human ... again Airfix.

The closest to the same scale were three Airfix fighter pilots (from different kits but their poses were either unlikely for any position in the Mancaster or, shall we say, "unfortunate") & the crew of an Italeri Heinkel He.111H (but most of their stances were wrong & I don't feel like that level of 1/72 Frankenbashing to get them right).

Quote from: Old Wombat on February 22, 2023, 07:47:00 AM...their poses were...shall we say, "unfortunate...

Use them.  It'll solve the name dilemma.

Avro Wancaster...




...i'll get me coat.

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Quote from: Old Wombat on February 22, 2023, 07:47:00 AM...their poses were...shall we say, "unfortunate...

Use them.  It'll solve the name dilemma.

Avro Wancaster...




...i'll get me coat.

Lucky I've not got my red card on me 

But is there a Book for 2023 yet?

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 24, 2023, 03:52:55 AMBut is there a Book for 2023 yet?

Yup and it has several entries 

Laid down some colours for the inside of the fuselage this evening.

Custom mix interior green (all Tamiya colours: Deep Green [XF-26], Sky [XF-21] & Sky Grey [XF-19] in a 5:4:4 ratio, which isn't quite as green as the real thing but close enough for me) & NATO Black [XF-69].

Nacelles & wings have had their final PSR session & will get a final primer coat tomorrow, then I'll have to do the re-scribing of the lost panel lines (my least favourite thing), which often ends in remedial PS sessions to fix f___-ups.


Oh, well. Onwards & upwards!

This is getting more and more interesting by the minute..I do love hack and slash aircraft 

Quote from: Wardukw-NZ on February 24, 2023, 11:40:41 AMThis is getting more and more interesting by the minute..I do love hack and slash aircraft 

I admire people who have the ability to envisage it in their minds eye in the first place, let alone build the things 

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Quote from: Wardukw-NZ on February 24, 2023, 11:40:41 AMThis is getting more and more interesting by the minute..I do love hack and slash aircraft 

I admire people who have the ability to envisage it in their minds eye in the first place, let alone build the things 

There are mushrooms that helps ....