Just starting to build this unusual aircraft following visits to the Shuttleworth Collection and RAF Duxford in Eastern England. It looks like quite a challenging kit and just wondered if anyone else had recently built this? I am unsure what adhesive to use for the seat belts which are metal and dash details and some other small parts in resin? I know that this plane was multi purpose and had a significant role dropping off agents behind enemy lines during WWII and ideally I would like to recreate this i model form. Any helpful comments welcome. Thanks.

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Thanks Jeff. But I mislead you!
The kit is by Eduard. See picture below. A ProfiPACK kit.
Not sure why it has posted upside down!?

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Bernard: If you look at the photos I took at Duxford, you'll see that drop tank. Massive thing. Its in the kit and I will be using it and so is the ladder.. The box art shows the version I saw at Duxford and the kit contains the right decals too. But it is a fiddly cockpit and I need to find some spie figures to show boarding the aircraft. LOoking for civilian figures at 1:48 scale in macks!

We visited RAF Tempsford in July and were shown around the barn where they disembarked. Apparently the crew were instructed not to talk to the passengers they carried and in fact they boarded the plane secretly once the crew were in place and ready for takeoff. A very secret airfield where all buildings were camouflaged and made to look like ruined old agricultural barns as was the runway. Hedges and such like painted on the hard surface of the runways to disguise them from enemy aircraft.

It is my intention to attempt to recreate that scenario. Here's hoping...

Can't wait for your finished product, should look great. I believe there's one featured in a recent movie called Allied. I remember building the old Hawk kit years ago.

Hi Mike , looks like a nice project ,I don't think we've seen many Lysanders on this site.For your Resin and metal parts just use ordinary superglue ,mind your fingers don't get attached though !.I'd have a word with the guys at Hannants and see if there is a masking set for the canopy otherwise you will have your work cut out for you masking that lot that's for sure ! have a word with our own Rob Pollock about your figures he seems to have a ton of knowledge about diorama stuff and finally I'd suggest that the aircraft in your pictures is way to shiney it needs to be very matt but I'm sure you know all that.Looking forward to seeing it built.

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Well 2 weeks in and its starting to get interesting... soon time for some spraying. All that time fixing etched parts inside the cockpit and now you can't see them anyway! Managed to find a 1:48 pilot but had to chop his legs off, so that I could get him into the front seat and show him turning to look out of the cockpit towards the waiting SOE agents, when I can find the right figures.

Think the Preiser figures at 1:50 might be suitable? But expensive as I have to pay postage from Germany to get them here to the UK. Set of civilians male and female in macs waiting for a train! I think they'll do the trick. But that's a way off... gotta get the plane finished first. 🙂

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Michael, the USAAF experimented with black undersides, and concluded the paint should be semi or full gloss, which reputedly reflected, rather than absorbed the searchlight beams. Between the wars and early on, AAF used water soluble "temporary" paints, including black. One such experiment was during a raid on Wake, where they used lampblack mixed with soap on the undersides of B-24s. Poor results, it was either difficult to remove, or wore off immediately.

The RAF had special night, smooth night, and I can't recall what else. The earliest was dead flat, and could remove exposed skin with contact, I hear tell. Dd wonders for the aircrafts speed.

Nice work Michael great to see a Lizzie on the site !