Dam Busters Group Build

[Hman]

Lots of great ideas gents.   How about attacking the dam from the dry side, low level lobbing, into the foundations of the dam?

[kitnut617]

How about a Victor B.2 carrying a T-12 Grand Slam (all 44,000lbs of it).  Think that could shake something down.     The one on the left is the T-12 with a regular Grand Slam in the middle and the Tallboy on the right

[Tuck]

How about something along the line of the Gamelon Drill missile from Star Blazers (aka Space Cruiser Yamato)

[Weaver]

Inspiration? Well maybe, maybe not, but it's bloody funny all the same.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYClSGINHyU

[nev]

One of the greatest ads of all time  

Shame about the beer.

[PR19_Kit]

How about a Victor B.2 carrying a T-12 Grand Slam (all 44,000lbs of it).  Think that could shake something down.     The one on the left is the T-12 with a regular Grand Slam in the middle and the Tallboy on the right

Robert,

That reminds me, where did you get the Tallboy and Grand Slam from? Or are they scratchbuilt?

[kitnut617]

How about a Victor B.2 carrying a T-12 Grand Slam (all 44,000lbs of it).  Think that could shake something down.     The one on the left is the T-12 with a regular Grand Slam in the middle and the Tallboy on the right

Robert,

That reminds me, where did you get the Tallboy and Grand Slam from? Or are they scratchbuilt?

Hi Kit,

The Grand Slam comes from the 1/72 Airfix Lancaster Special kit, the Tallboy comes from the 1/72 Paragon resin set, the T12 started off as a couple of pieces of 3/4" OD ABS pipe, then a large chunk of Milliput for the front and I developed a cone on paper for the tail which was then transfered to a bit of styrene card.  After carefully bending it into the shape I needed, I filled it with Milliput, you might recognize the green bit as you're quite familiar with the kit that it came from --

Cheers,
Robert

[PR19_Kit]

...... you might recognize the green bit as you're quite familiar with the kit that it came from --

Hehhe, that'd be a Matchbox Meteor NF11-14 then? 

Thanks for the gen on the Big Bombs, somehow I've managed to miss the Airfix Lancaster Special, never seen one ever. 

[kitnut617]

Hehhe, that'd be a Matchbox Meteor NF11-14 then? 

Funny, I used to see the Lancaster Special on just about every site I went on --- do you think I can find one now -----

[Joe C-P]

Lots of great ideas gents.   How about attacking the dam from the dry side, low level lobbing, into the foundations of the dam?

An explosion underwater is magnified by the pressure and imcompressability of water.

[Spey_Phantom]

ive been having an idea in my head to make a new low-flying, ekranoplan like missile, made espacially to take out dams 

its designed to be released from a centreline pylon of an F-14B or D, but i can build a version for use by other planes, maybe 1 for a Blackburn Buccaneer, Avro Vulcan or TSR.2 

[Hobbes]

How about a torpedo that isn't meant to go underwater? Put a hydrofoil under it so it'll skim right over those torpedo nets, and have it sink when ti reaches the dam.

[GTX]

Speaking of Dambusters, look here.

Regards,

Greg

[Mossie]

I was just thinking on those lines.  There was a lot of concern that Hollywood would run riot with the facts & come up with something completely different.  So how about Liberators carrying Upkeep instead???

Nitpicking fool mode ON!  First pic I've seen of the film & already a factual error, those rolling hills don't exactly recreate Scampton & Lincolnshire (it's flat as a f@rt, part of the reason so many bomber stations were located there IIRC)!  But if that's the worst they can throw at it I'll be a happy camper.  Nipicking Fool mode OFF!

At the risk of being stoned, I kind of like the soloution they've come up for the dog/code name.  They've kept the name of the dog, sort of, & managed to avoid the word that everyone was so worried about.

EDIT, Just read the article properly & noticed that they mentioned it was only rolled out for testing the techonolgy & not for filming, so disregard my middle paragraph!

[Mossie]

How would they go about dam busting in the modern era?  I guess guided bunker busters should take pretty good care of a dam, not the problem it once was?