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GRAND SLAM LANCASTER

Jeeves

Jeeves

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This is a video on the Grand Slam...there isn't a whole lot for research on this baby...hoping the new Squadron walk around book that is due out soon will help...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-Mm-zFW_nA&sns=em
 
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Yeah I figured I'd get in the game as well Laura... ;-)

Oogled the box a bit while taking it out of the stash today...looking forward to get cracking!
 
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I was trying to change the title of this topic but there is no edit function... here is "Target for Tonight"...

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Now I just need my wife and daughter to go horseback riding so I can have some uninterrupted model time ;)
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Wallis

http://www.war44.com/allied-bomber-planes/487-lancaster-b-1-special-gran-slam-bomb.html

http://www.ww2talk.com/forum/weapons-technology-equipment/5807-barnes-wallace-2.html

http://www.ww2incolor.com/britain/British_Grand_Slam_bomb.html

http://www.lancaster.partworkmodels.co.uk/detailframe.htm

http://www.lancasterfm159.freeservers.com/

Maybe of some help.
James
 
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Here comes the dambuster!!!! Going to be cool watch.

Terry B)
 
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Thanks James!!

This is more like the U-Boat Pen and aqueduct buster Terry-- although I wish I had the Dambuster version as well...and maybe a Tallboy version too!! Who am I kidding-- this thing is HUGE and I have no idea where I'll put it!
 
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Well if you want to do something smaller then you could do a Mosquito Mk IV ship buster. It had the Dam buster trapeze setup with a ball instead of a barrel. Developed by Wallace the ball spun up and they bounced it over the torpedo nets where it hit the ship and spun underneath before exploding which broke her back.
James
 
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I'd forgotten that these things went supersonic in the air after being dropped. Must have been something to feel one of the earthquakes from these things being dropped. I am hoping that Walk Around book that is coming out on the Kanc comes out soon...
 
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Sorry James ...we cross posted!

Yeah I would like to get around to trying my hand at a Cookie Mossie as well as the Highball version you mention...but I have none in the stash. I am perfectly happy to build this baby...plenty of ceiling space to hang it from ;). Hey!! Maybe I ought to pick up that 1/24 Mossie that Airfix has out!

Ooooo...that next to the last link you posted is a gold mine James...between that and the awesome interior PE set, I'll be pretty busy detailing...
 
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Jeeves said:
Sorry James ...we cross posted!

Yeah I would like to get around to trying my hand at a Cookie Mossie as well as the Highball version you mention...but I have none in the stash. I am perfectly happy to build this baby...plenty of ceiling space to hang it from ;). Hey!! Maybe I ought to pick up that 1/24 Mossie that Airfix has out!

Ooooo...that next to the last link you posted is a gold mine James...between that and the awesome interior PE set, I'll be pretty busy detailing...
Click to expand...

Rule number 1: Always leave the best for last :laugh:

James
 
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We have my sister-in-law here for the day to celebrate the holidays before she heads back to LA so nothing yet :(

Hopefully when everyone is in bed...
 
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Well...started folding some PE last night after a day of feeling like crud and then realized before I could add any of it, I had to spray the Lanc's interior walls so I could continue...nothing worthy of pics really yet...but this Eduard PE is a treat with my new bending tool!
 
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Every one is bending PE. I really see the advantage of building buttoned up...Shoot, I may have time for a second.

Get some pictures up Jeeves..
 
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OK...stayed up late to work on this and get some pics for you kids! First up-- for Saul-- is a few pics of my new Fender Bender (Thanks Ken!)
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Now let's see how to work this thing... lucky for me since I don't have any fender sized pieces, the great men at Ausfwerks have a side with smaller fingers for the small stuff-- I still had to use a razor blade and steel rule here and there-- but mainly due to poor planning on my part. So-- here is the case for the radar set I believe...before-
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And after bending...this makes me actually like PE!!
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And where I am at so far in the fuselage...slow and steady wins the race...I tend to rush things, so I am trying to do just a bit here and there...
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Will need to repaint here and there, but I figured I'd wait until everything was in so I could touch up and wash all at once!
 
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Man... I hope the quiet is a good thing ;)

Funny how a pic brings out things to notice-- like that gargantuan ejector pin markings...I am loking to see which of them get covered up with PE and then I'll try fixing them up a bit...
 
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Hey, I thought those fender bender things were out of production. How long you had that thing?
 
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