Avro Lancaster AEW.III

[The Wooksta!]

Finished in time for Huddersfield, so it could be handed to Martin for unveiling at Cosford.






This started out as a collection of bits gathered from various places.  A gash Lancaster from one of the guys on Britmodeller (Avro683 I think) which had the engines attached very firmly to the wings was the basis, but I used the Paragon mid upper turret blank and a lot of sanding to sort out the resulting hole.  The nose was a resin Lancastrian nose, fins are the A2Z Lincoln tail fins fitted to most late Lancasters.  The tail turret is one spare from a Hasegawa Lancaster kit and is the late/post war FN82 turret toting a pair of .50 cal machine guns.  I also fitted the Village Inn AGL which is spare in all the Hasegawa Lancs.  Props and aerials were nicked from a Revell Lanc, as was the fuel dump pipe but the wheels - Lincoln ones - are home cast copies of the Paragon ones.  Again, late Lancasters had Lincoln mainwheels.  I went for the post war scheme because this is what Lancasters would have worn had the war gone on another year or so - I have another two Lancasters in a similar scheme but as yet unfinished as The Plan aka The Alternate Spitfire have higher priority.

Idea came from a mate who mentioned an AEW Lancaster.  I saw the potential and saw it as a way to use up some of the Lancasters spares kicking about.  If and when I get round to writing a backstory, it'll tie in with The Plan.  And going with my own radio naming convention, this one is D-Dougal.

Pics courtesy Jim Bricknell aka JayBee.

[Devilfish]

AWESOME!!!!

[Pellson]

Impressive an oh so close to reality.. Five out of five! 

[PR19_Kit]

Excellent Lee, it looked SERIOUSLY impressive looming over all the other stuff in our virtual hangar 3. 

I loved the twin 0.5 tail turret, you don't often see them on Lanc models. Where did the radome come from though?

[The Wooksta!]

It's the Aeroclub one from the Shackleton AEW conversion.  I had a spare one that was donated some time back.

I'd like to do another one or two, certainly one in a Navy scheme with BPF markings.

[Mossie]

Very nice Lee, good to see it in the flesh at Cosford.

[The Rat]

Certainly looks a winner to me! 

[NARSES2]

Very nice Lee, good to see it in the flesh at Cosford.

Certainly is and was 

[The Wooksta!]

I loved the twin 0.5 tail turret, you don't often see them on Lanc models.

Mainly because you can't get the FN82 tail turret, except in certain of the Hasegawa limited edition lancasters (Post war, Canadian Rescue and ASR boxings all have it though, and Lincoln tailfins).  It's on a Falcon set too, but not many modellers are happy using vacform bits.  I know I'm not...

I've an Airfix Lancaster tail turret I've modded to take a pair of spare Hasegawa .50s from one their Lancasters but the Lanc it'll eventually go on isn't finished.

Paragon did the Rose-Rice turret to go on the Lancaster, I've one or two of those sitting about somewhere.

[sequoiaranger]

Good to see something multi-engined from you.

[McColm]

Well done

[TallEng]

Now that is Nice and I guess a "would have been" if the War had gone on much longer.
Regards
Keith

[pyro-manic]

That looks really good, I must say.

[Modelling_Mushi]

Gorgeous!

[kitnut617]

I loved the twin 0.5 tail turret, you don't often see them on Lanc models.

Flightpath's Lincoln converson has it Kit but in vacuform, and I've found they will sell it separately too.