The Lancaster Channel at iModeler (13 articles)

The Lancaster Channel at iModeler

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HK Models 1/32 Avro Lancaster Mk. I – a closer look

by Editor on November 12, 2018
in Reviews — 6 Comments

Somewhat overshadowed by all the recent frenzy about the Wingnut Wings’ big Lancaster, HK Models have been quietly working on completing their very own 1/32 kit of the famous RAF bomber. And now it’s here. Ready for release in December, the H[...]

On This Day…November 12th.

by david leigh-smith on November 12, 2018
in News — 7 Comments

A really nice photo of a SBD-5 Dauntless flying over the USS Washington (with the USS Lexington in the beckground) heading toward the Gilbert Islands, 12 Nov 1943. In this photo, members of an RAF technical intelligence team are seen climbin[...]

Telford kit news – Wingnut Wings 1/32 Avro Lancaster, a closer look

by Editor on November 10, 2018
in Reviews — 10 Comments

Reporting live from Telford, one of the undisputed head-turners of this show is this, the forthcoming Wingnut Wings 1/32 Avro Lancaster Mk. I. Also covered on video here: Let's have a closer look. This is a partially built model constructed o[...]

On This Day…November 9th.

by david leigh-smith on November 9, 2018
in News — 7 Comments

9th November 1942. Troops loading mines onto an Avro Lancaster as they prepare to lay them in the North Sea.. The installation of a gun in number 2 turret of battleship USS North Carolina (BB55), New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, on the 9th Novem[...]

On This Day…October 20th

by david leigh-smith on October 20, 2018
in News — 15 Comments

A TBD-1 Devastator of Torpedo Squadron Six (operating from the Enterprise) drops a Mark 13 torpedo during exercises in the Pacific, October 20. General McCarthy arrives at Red Beach, Leyte, October 20, 1944. Historians are divided over the [...]

WnW 1/32 Lanc

by Rob Pollock on September 28, 2018
in News — 44 Comments

Coming in 2019...

Tamiya 1/48 Avro Lancaster PB150 of 625 Sqn RAF 1945

by Gary Stevenson on February 9, 2017
in Aviation — 15 Comments

Some pics of my Tamiya 1/48 Lanc tastefully shot against the lurid backdrop of our back-bedroom! - Sorry about that but the finished model is so large it had to go somewhere uncluttered and it was still raining outside. I scratch-built the inter[...]

2016 Ambition-In with the New Finish the Old!

by Chuck A. Villanueva on January 1, 2016
in Uncategorized — 16 Comments

As the new year begins today, I want to be a little ambitious and start some new projects, complete older ones that have been on the back burner too long. 2015 I was able to whittle some of those older projects and finally complete them. I [...]

Tamiya Lancaster

by Don Smith on November 14, 2015
in Diorama — 21 Comments

This was a project I completed some five or six years ago. It represents a Lanc which was destroyed by the explosion of its photoflash flares during arming up for a winter mission over Germany. Amazingly, there was no secondary detonation and, I[...]

Tamiya 1/48 Lancaster B.III (Special) “Grand Slam”

by Tom Cleaver on September 10, 2015
in Uncategorized — 14 Comments

Little needs to be said about the Lancaster, one of the truly legendary “greats” of the Second World War. A product of brilliant improvisation when the twin-engine Manchester proved underpowered and unreliable, Avro took the airplane and provid[...]