AEW Lancaster

[lancer]

This is looking pretty damm cool.

[The Wooksta!]

There's no real need for the saddle tank (which incidentally was hated by the test pilots and caused no end of problems), given that the nose and bomb bay area of the Lancastrian carries additional fuel.

Actually, I think you'd need additional fin area to compensate for the tank.  Certainly extra power would have been needed, given the weight of the addional fuel and the very bulky radar gear and associated black boxes.

[Captain Canada]

The saddle doesn't have to be all fuel.....more room for those black boxes and operator stations etc. Besides, it looks cool !

[kitnut617]

Having walked up and down inside a Lancaster a couple of times, I know you can't stand upright in it (mostly you have to stoop in a real uncomfortable position).  Instead of being a fuel tank, it could just be an extended fusealge just so you can walk upright.

[PR19_Kit]

Besides, it looks cool !

The Whiffer's mantra. 

[buzzbomb]

Well, noted engineering feedback aside, got this together as far as it is going to go for a Whiffer.
I think I will go for the Saddle tank having some fuel and some black box space, that works for me.

So in my version of a daylight scheme, for the crude MK1 version of the AEW Lancaster, perhaps used by Coastal Command.






Thanks for the nice words folks

[rickshaw]

Interesting aircraft.  Never going to win a beauty contest but well executed.  Nice detail with the aerials. 

[TallEng]

Good job that saddle tank sure makes a difference to the look of a Lancaster.
I've been puzzling the nose, and I've finally worked it out it reminds me of the nose
On the Canberra T.17

Regards
Keith

[NARSES2]

Interesting aircraft.  Never going to win a beauty contest but well executed.  Nice detail with the aerials. 

Very much so. Really good build and I do like the colour scheme 

[aston]

Oooh! Oooh! Oooh!

Love the astrodome on the  bulge-front and imo has a big-Beaufort and Albermarle look. That nose has got just Attitude!

Gorgeous colours ..... work of art.

The tanktop would make nipping over the main spar a lot easier ....

[The Wooksta!]

It's a nice model, certainly a good build, but it doesn't really work for me.  It just doesn't look right.  The radomes don't fit in with the time frame - the ventral one would have some serious problems with reflections from the props.

The Village Inn radome doesn't look right either - the Hasegawa Lancs all have this as a standard part on the sprues.  It's not a fixed radome as it swivels with the turret. More info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Gun-Laying_Turret  http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aviation/village-inn-3372-2.html#post877563

Harsh?  No. If I wanted to be really picky there's a few things I'd single out.  I'm not criticising the concept or the modelling.  Just a difference of opinion.  I've been thinking about AEW Lancasters and whiffed Lancaster variants for so long that I seem to have a fixed view of how the company would have progressed.