The Lancaster Channel at iModeler (24 articles)

The Lancaster Channel at iModeler

Avro Lancaster

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24 articles
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AVRO Lancaster B.III – Airfix 1/72nd

by jorge rivas krause on November 14, 2020
in Aviation — 32 Comments

I've tried to improved the simple surface detail by adding some missing panel lines and rivets. I’ve replaced the plastic wheels with the resin set from Eduard and I’ve used AK real colour lacquer RAF Dark Green and RAF Dark Earth as well as som[...]

Airfix 1/72 Avro Lancaster

by George V Guimaraes on October 30, 2020
in Aviation — 18 Comments

Hello! This is my recent project, an Airfix Avro Lancaster, 1/72. I usually build 1/48 aircraft, but this one would have a 60cm wingspan, too big for my space. Having built a few nice Airfix new tools, I have to say I was a little disappointed[...]

Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum – Tiger Moth Flight and Visit #1

by George Schembri on July 8, 2020
in Aviation — 22 Comments

As things start opening up, I was lucky enough to be able to book a flight as a passenger on a de Havilland Tiger Moth at The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario - First time taking a flight other than being an airline passeng[...]

Airfix 1/72 Boulton Paul Defiant Mk1

by Alistair Gauld on May 14, 2020
in Aviation — 16 Comments

Hi There, This was purchased in a well-known Edinburgh model shop over a year ago and Innis picked it, so while I was off work awaiting a Covid-19 test result I thought it was about time it was built. Innis decided it would be wheels up...Ye[...]

Revell 1/72 Lancaster B.III. “Dambuster”

by Alistair Gauld on April 25, 2020
in Aviation — 7 Comments

Hi There, This was being built in parallel to the Firefox but this one is for the wee man's roof, so wheels up. When I started I thought that the dihedral fix wouldn't make that much of a difference so decided not to bother.....Wrong! Primed w[...]

Avro Lancaster – Hasegawa, 1/72 + scratch

by Manuel Magrinho on February 21, 2020
in Aviation — 12 Comments

The Lancaster history deserves some reading and the internet is full of articles on that. Even the ever present Wikipedia has a nice one: Now preserved in the Museum at RAF Hendon, PO-S/R5868 or S for Sugar as it became known, is probably th[...]

2019 IN REVIEW-A Year and an end to a Decade

by Chuck A. Villanueva on December 31, 2019
in Reviews — 13 Comments

So after several attempts finally got it too post. So lets end 2019. It was rather an ambitious plan to build at least 12 models several in Group Builds others just to add variety and planned before any GB's. I was able to actually start[...]

Update on Wingnut Wings Lancasters on Wingnut’s website.

by Julian Shawyer on May 31, 2019
in News — 15 Comments

On This Day…May 30th.

by david leigh-smith on May 30, 2019
in Photo Collections — 6 Comments

Lieutenant Commander Harry Greene flies his Boeing Stearman Kaydet over the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility at Pearl Harbor, May 30, 2016. There are several ISM facilities around the US. Greene is a helicopter pilot at Coast Guard Air[...]

On This Day…May 27th.

by david leigh-smith on May 27, 2019
in Photo Collections — 26 Comments

Phorever a legend. May 27th 1958, the McDonnell Aircraft (later McDonnell Douglas) F-4 Phantom II naval interceptor made its first flight. Designed as a carrier aircraft to defend the fleet against Soviet supersonic bombers, the design co[...]