Airfix 1:72 Avro Lancaster B.III
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Wow, this was a fun but challenging project. I'm going to be sad to see it go. But it was a blast to get to build the new Airfix Lancaster. The decals are from Kits-World.
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"The Descent" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Excellent build. My father was a Lancaster mid upper gunner and flew 10 sorties initially with an RAF squadron but later with the RCAF as well. I have bought this kit in his memory and your video is going to help me complete it. Many Canadians served as aircrew in the British airforce during WW2.
Cool
I have built an homage to a man I worked for as a teen. He was a gunner in a Halifax. I just finished an Avro Arrow for another man's son.
My dad flew as a wireless operator/air gunner in RAF Halifax’s during WWII. Later worked in Air Traffic Control in the RCAF.
Wow so cool
My grandfather was a gunner on a Lancaster - out of a crew of seven, there was one Canadian, one Australian, one Jamaican, one Welshman, one Scotsman and two Englishmen.
My father flew 15 missions in 1945 from Waterbeach near Cambridge as a Lancaster pilot with 514 Squadron. I have his logbooks and this model renews my pride. Ironically enough I married a German and live in the only town - Solingen - that 514 bombed twice, while my daughter was born in Essen, which 514 also visited. Makes you think a bit, but what a magnificent machine and amazing respect for the unrecognised courage of the men who flew them, knowing they only had a 30% chance of completing a tour of 30 trips.
Brings back memories. My father and I made an Airfix Lancaster together more than 60 years ago. Ace work!
As a kid I could never wait for the paint to dry!
I had that problem as a kid as well, and I still do as an adult.
Same
I am stil a kid i am building a thundermug right now
That’s why I got quickdry paint
Same
My father during WW2 flew in training missions across Canada with the RAF in the Lancaster. The plane has a great history.Nice video!
Thanks your dad for serving
So did my dad! He was a navigator. A lot of them died in training. He flew in Liberators too.
Looking at all those parts as an 8-10 year old was overwhelming! I got a model of the USS United States & we ,mostly Dad, built it.
IT WAS COOL but I still don't know what Davits are & a host of other nautical terms!Dad did most of the building, but I was happy to be a part of the project & help Dad!
Dad was a decorated WW2 veteran who fought in the battle of the bulge in WW2 & models calmed him & fascinated me & bonded us forever!
Davits are the things that help lifeboats lower into the water.
The most common davit these days is the 'Gravity' Davit.
Lovely touch using that aircrew recording on the “reveal” run.....completed a brilliant build in a fabulous way! Average Lancaster lifespan was 40 hours (5 Ops)......The Lanc was a great Bomber but a bastard to escape from.....11% chance of getting out of one, if it got shot up badly.....😳
WOW! The detail in 1:72 Airfix kits have come a long way since I did mine in the 1970's. Awesome!
Greatest effort probably were using CAD and CAM designing. Using these were a great leap in all the industry and production.
And the price... I wonder what the total cost is including paint etc? As a retiree I can only watch videos of these awesome builds.
I worked with a chap who was a flight engineer on a Lanc. Got through the war unscathed, don't know how many sorties he would have done. Iconic aircraft, and a great build young man...
Brilliant build and video record of it.
Looks a very nice kit.
Love the historic voice recording as well.
My uncle Fred was a rear gunner on a Lanc and did 27 ops
My Dad was too.
Wow, the most dangerous place to be in a bomber.
@@flashy5150 the ball turret under the bomber is greatly exposed to flak guns tho
Monty
I too had a great uncle Fred , he was a rear gunner on a Lancaster too
Risky as you will know ...but brave men ...all
Beautiful model, I built an Airfix Lancaster as my first model kit in the late 80s with my Grandad! I loved the recordings at the end especially the bit where the one guy calmly announces 'I think they are firing at us'. No matter what is said about the strategic bombing campaigns, the men who flew them were heroic! I'm not sure I could have done that over and over gain...
There's an old saying here at this country where I am in: '' the place where a guitar is more desirable to be, is at its player's hands ... '' So are the models on my point of view. 1000 thanks for the vídeo. For the lessons in it. And for the fantastic music, wich by the way wraps all this quite well. Good taste in everything... Congratulations...
Thanks for all the great info. I’m going to be building the Airfix 1/72 Landcaster dam buster version.
Love the exhaust smears across the wings. Very nice touch.
Thanks Warren, it was the part of the build I was most looking forward to.
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This is my favorite model ever. I’m getting one on Christmas! Love the paint.
That is awesome :D I'm sure that you will have fun with this kit.
@@rebelsatcloudnine I have a question. where did you get this kit at?
@@coolkidjeff082 recommend getting it from amazon or the airfix website
@@aviation0197 ok
Beautifully finished model.
This was my late father's aircraft. He and his crew left her after surviving 36 ops. She was handed over to a new crew. They set off on a fighter evasion exercise. The Lancaster zigged and the Hurricane zagged and everyone on both aircraft was killed.
That's so sad. Luck seems to be the main reason anyone survived WW2 honestly. My grandad was entered into the RAF but he was too poorly sighted to be a fighter pilot/pilot generally so he ended up being a navigator. If he was maybe a few years older he'd have been bomber crew but ended up serving in the aftermath of WW2 in the middle/far east. Quite convievably the fact that he was a bit too young and didnt have perfect vision saved his life.
Ohhhhhhh, the fond recall of a small boy for Airfix's 1:72nd scale kits of this, the Handley-Page Halifax, the Short Sunderland--I loved the small tractor towing the train of laden bomb carts!--the Vickers Wellington, and others.
I know what you mean, some of the best kits were those older Airfix kits back when I was younger. I still have my older Lancaster, I'm slowly in the process of restoring it as I didn't do the best job on it back in the day as I was moving out at the time.
Great. So much detail in the making of this magnificent aircraft. Craftmanship.
Beautiful job. And the recording of the Lanc crew at the end... What a generation they were.
Agreed, I'm building one more Lancaster, and I'll use more of their audio for that one as well. Kind of odd how calm they all were.
@@rebelsatcloudnine Its how you stayed focused and more importantly, survived to complete your tour of ops by working as a team.....no place for individuals.
Outstanding presentation "Rebelsatcloudnine" and you used a very respectful music. I lost three uncles in WW II, one of them died at the controls of a RCAF Lancaster B X or Mk II in support of the Normandy landings. I truly appreciate the respect and the dignity that you express as you describe your "work of love" in detailing your models and sharing your experience in assembling them.
May Peace be with you, merci encore pour toute les informations que vous avez partages avec la communaute des "modelers", Ciao, L (Maine, USA)
Lovely job enjoyed the audio at the end
Great job on the Lancaster. Always been a favorite of mine. Also, nice touch on the cockpit to bomber audio clip at the end. :)
Someone needs to say that the music choices for this video were absolutely appropriate and very enjoyable - there I said it!
Magnifique ..Merci pour le réalisme de ce fameux avion que pilotait un ami de ma famille à là R.A.F..Salut
Hubert
The Audio at the end made it surreal. Respect to all soldiers of all nations. May we never have to go to war again.
I really enjoyed seeing the paint proportions being followed exactly as shown.
He is a bit of a perfectionist. One of the many reason his models stand o7t from the rest.
I've watched this video a few times. It was the inspiration for me to go out and buy this kit. I hadn't made an airfix kit for nearly 40 years. Thank you.
did you get extra modelling tools, kit, paint? I'm thinking of picking up a Lanc and Spitty. Not sure whether to go whole hog and try and do a really good job, or just keep it simple. Haven't built any kits for 25 years.
@RoastLambShanks I just got the basics. Knife, cutting board, some decent brushes glue and paint plus as an afterthought so. E. A friend gave me an airbrush so I taught myself how to airbrush.
Overall its as simple or as complicated as you want to make it.
Snap, 40 years for me too chaps. 👍 got myself a cheap airbrush/compressor and a couple of kits to get my hand in again and just ordered an Italeri Stirling mk1. Chocks away, tally ho chaps 👍👍
Great build, A fitting tribute to the total 364,514 operational sorties were flown, 1,030,500 tons of bombs were dropped and 8,325 aircraft lost in action. Of course, these were not all flown by Lancasters. Bomber Command crews also suffered a high casualty rate: 55,573 were killed out of a total of 125,000 aircrew, a 44.4% death rate. A further 8,403 men were wounded in action, and 9,838 became prisoners of war.
Found your video because I've just ordered the Airfix Lancaster and by coincidence already ordered the same decal kit.
My great uncle was one of the gunners on Lancaster LM130 when it unfortunately collided with Hurricane PZ740 over Lincolnshire.
Thanks for the video!
As a youth, I had built this kit. Also Airfix's kits of the Handley Page "Halifax", the Short "Stirling", and the Vickers "Wellington" RAF bombers.
nice model, the airfix Lancaster was the first plastic model i ever made in 1963 i think it was, my granddad bought it for my 10 birthday it was a far simpler model then and the glue took about a day to dry and obviously i got the stuff everywhere even occasionally getting some on the model but i was pleased with result , happy days.
When I was that young I would have loved a Lancaster, but they were really expensive at that time. It wasn't until I was just out of high school that my Dad surprised me with one. I'm currently restoring the kit and I was going to sell it, but I decided to sell this one instead. I've become way too attached to my older tooled Lancaster.
My dad flew the lancaster during the second world war when he was stationed overseas with the R.A.F.. 211 Squadron. I am building a R.C Lancaster in his memory, it has a 4 foot wingspan and hopefully I can fly it with the R.C. . Club I belong too. Your model looks fantastic and great detailing...CHEERS!
Woah, that's an impressive wingspan and a very fitting tribute to your father :D That must be a beautiful sight to see in the air when it's completed.
Beautiful job. I freehand the camouflage with a close flow to give a softer edge but I'm used to the airbrush in my job. A lovely piece of work, thanks.
what job is that?
Frances Luck Designer and illustrator. Although I use Photoshop for professional work I still have my old compressor and airbrush from the 1970s and still prefer the feel of real paint flowing.
Beautifully made, beautiful music. My Great Uncle Alf , rear gunner served in one of those. Respect to all who flew in them. ❤
Subscribed.
The authentic radio chatter at the end was a terrific touch.
I think they’re firing on us.
'ok i think they are firing at us'..voices at the end almost eerie!,great job on the lanc
My Dad flew this beauty for the R.A.F When he was stationed in Britain during W.W.2. He was a Wing Commander for the R.C.A.F. 211 SQUADRON. The closest I ever got to flying was a R.C. when I belonged to the Peterborough.Ontario Flying club. I built a R.C OF THE AVRO Lancaster thru blueprints. I had lots of help to build it as it has a 4 foot wingspan. The thing that broke my heart was that my dad died before I had finished it... I love your build as its beautiful;...GRATS AND CHEERS
Thanks for sharing that story, that it really cool that you have a strong connection to the RAF through your Dad. Sorry to hear that he didn't get to see the plane fly. Did it ever get finished?
I have this kit, or one just like it rather, am definitely rewatching this when i start her... gorgeous job 👏
Waren im Kaufhaus, der Lancaster Bomber, sollte mein erstes Modell in meinem Leben sein, ich sehe heute noch meinen Vater vor mir stehen mit der Packung in der Hand. Ich entschied mich damals für den BAC Jaguar. Vielen Dank !
total beginner here. just built one and that under carriage was a nightmare to put in. your job looks a lot better than mine!
Great job ! The result is fantastic, the mythic "Lanc" is well represented with this kit, well done !
Thank you for that comment :D
I have a vintage unstarted kit of this (B.MK 1/111 "George") in a somewhat yellowed box that came from a charity shop and this is inspiring me to get my arse in gear and build it!
Amazing video. It has inspired me to get a kit and build it with the same attention to detail you have. I tried when I was younger but never had the patients and ended up in a sticky mess.
Very nice build, I would build one to but we have a Lancaster in my home city and I see it and hear it when it’s out for a flight. I always hear it coming, it has that genuine WWII rumble, like a 1970 Chrysler 300 with the mufflers cut off. I heard there’s only three left in the world, two are flight worthy and one that’s not but there might be only two and one of them is in my hometown, I feel lucky and proud.
Which Lancaster is that? If you check out my video catalogue I've got a video of the start-up of the Nanton Lancaster, and tour of the interior of the aircraft. It's a lot more cramped then I thought.
really - big joy - to look at this - and perfect organized and soundtrack fits perfect..
sorry my active english..
Beautifully built and shown. Done with love. The initial music? Everyone seems to be doing their own slant on that excellent & powerful tune from "Sunshine".
When you remove the tape after you have painted!
So satisfying and so perfect! Nice job!
Cookies away!!! Great build, thanks for sharing and providing the audio at the end.
Try find 'Audio from the past ww2 Avro Lancaster crew radio' (that's the name of the upload I think) here on yt. Awesome stuff.
Imagine the crews relief with the announcement "Bombs away."
@@paulreed6822 They all sound so calm, but I bet they weren't!
Magnificent model, and magnificent commentary (airmen dialogue) at the end.
Wow i love you’re canopy masking - effortless
Watching anyone peel masks off a large area is so satisfying! Excellent work
Yep, everyone loves it, until it goes wrong, thankfully I used a good primer and all worked out in the end :)
I remember as a kid shoveling driveways like mad to get the money to buy the 1/48th version of this kit :)
Did airfix make a 1/48 lanc? I have a tamiya one, but I though only tamiya has made the 1/48 lancaster?
@@musashi3036 might have tamiya
JJ T ok
Beautiful build of a great aircraft. Despite bombing at night, the British bomber crews had only a 1 in 4 chance of surviving their tour of duty. In one series of night raids over 3 days, they averaged almost 100 aircraft lost each sortie to night-fighters and flak. Brutal.
I agree, it's amazing to me that these young men persevered through all of this. I mean at what point do you just have enough? Human being's ability to endure tolerances like this is amazing.
Remember making the 1/72 Lanc by airfix back in the 60s. Nothing like this. For example the wings were Top, bottom and slotted in the fuselage.
Assembled one of these when I was a kid. Loved it. Motivated me to watch movies and to see the real thing.
There's a taxiable Lancaster a few hours from where I live and I always wanted to build the Airfix kit, but it was way too expensive for me as a youngster. Later on my Dad surprised me and bought that an older Airfix Lancaster. I built it for this channel years back, and I tore it apart and I'm currently restoring it. I hope to have it as a video later on this summer :D
This is a much more complex 1-72 scale Lancaster compared to the Airfix one from the '70s which was based on a real plane, G for George [RAAF]. For example the cockpit area and the interior of the wings construction. I built the '70s one. Great job by the way. Loved the ending.
Beautiful work, I need one and a B17!
Beautiful. Great touch with the crew audio during the reveal too.
It's worth mentioning the technical difficulties of making the recording of the exchanges, mainly between the pilot and the bomb aimer which was done on a real bombing raid. If memory serves, it was cut on an acetate disk on a recording machine in the aircraft. The full recording is available in the BBC archive.
Given that the chance of survival of RAF Bomber Command aircrew was just 1 in 3 (and they were aware of this), they were very brave young men.
Well worth seeing the real thing. There are only two flying Lancasters left, one in Canada and the other in the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight based at RAF Coningsby in Lincolnshire. There is a Lancaster at the Lincolnshire Aviation Heritage Centre (also Lincolnshire, which was known as Bomber County). It does taxi but does not fly.
The aircraft is massive. Yet inside very cramped. Getting over the main spar is hard work!
@@philipSilverstone We also have one - display only - in Western Australia at the RAAFAWA Aviation Heritage Museum.
My wife bought me an escorted tour of the Lancaster for my birthday last year. Yes, very cramped and awkward to move around in. But a day to remember.
I also got to sit in their Spitfire and Dakota.
@@philipSilverstone That's the honest truth it looks big on the outside but that spare is hard to climb through, I can't imagine doing that with full gear on. I've been through the one in Nanton a few times now, I've got video of it on my channel as well.
Thanks Model Nerd I appreciate that, as soon as I heard it I thought I had to add it to this video.
The most beautiful four engined aircraft ever made.
Me and my wife visited the crashed "Dambusters 617 Squadron" Avro Lancaster MK1 "Easy Elsie" NF-920 KC-E this summer 2019.If you are intreasted of WW2 history you must go to Sweden and see her. Its the last remaining plane of the famerous Dambusters. It was hit by flak from Tirpitz when she dropped a 5,6 ton "Tallboy" on the battleship and flew crippled over the border to Sweden and crasched. The plane wreck is still there at the original craschsite and you can still read the serialnumber: NF-920, name: Esay Elsie, and part of KC-E on the plane. Easy Elsie was part of two of the bombattacks against Tirpitz and all of the bombercrew survived the crash in Porjus, Sweden and went back to the UK. Hat of for these heroes!!!
3 years later and it is still my fav bomber
I ended up getting one of these in the battle of Britain gift set. Great build btw.
Voice over of the crew , Absolute Discipline, Brilliant lads and thank you for our precious freedom.🇬🇧 ,Unlike the woke RAF of today shame on them .
BS
Our vet at the farm was a navigator in one of these bombers his name was Adam Farrell a fine man
So cool! My favorite bomber.
the real lancaster audio at the end was a great touch. God bless the Lancaster.
A fine constructed Lancaster bomber..! ( The audio at the end really makes you wonder what it was like
for those men inside those planes...the droning sound of the engines is quite spectacular)
BRILLIANT - I’ve the same kit in my stack - looked in the box and its a bit scary 😀
Très belle réalisation avec une des plus belles maquettes au 1/72. Tous les trucs de réalisation sont là et cela est très passionnant et instructif à regarder. AIRFIX nous a toujours fait découvrir et aimer le modélisme. Merci
Leurs kits "nouvelle génération" sont superbes et abordables .
Ils créent certainement beaucoup de kits très amusants et excitants. J'espère qu'ils vont prendre de la vitesse dans les années à venir pour garder les joueurs de mode.
Je suis très heureux de voir leur nouveau Vulcan à 1:72 qu'ils viennent d'annoncer. Cela ressemble à un très bon kit.
My kit arrived today - this video is really going to help - I also have the Lancaster ll, radial engine version, flying in right behind it in a few days - will build them as a pair. Loved the chatter and engine noise at ending. Subscribed as well. Just retired - need all the help I can get to start building again.
Happy retirement! I see that you are starting off right by getting back into modeling :) The radial version is one I'd like to get someday as Canada flew a lot of them. I think that you are going to be really pleased with this kit when you get started on it :)
A terrific model. 'Nick the Nazi Neutralizer' was Lancaster BI LM130, coded JO-N, of 463 (Australian) Squadron, flown by F/O Ray Hattam, RAAF. She was adapted to carry a cameraman of the RAF Film Unit and, in addition to normal missions, accompanied other raids to make a film record of them, including the famous raids on the Tirpitz Battleship.
Hattam and his crew flew 29 ops in 'Nick' and she eventually completed 96 operations with various crews. Sadly she was lost in a accident on 11th March 1945 while being flown by P/O Norman Orchard RAAF. She collided with a Hurricane IIC over Lincolnshire during a fighter affiliation flight. Orchard, his British crew and the Hurricane pilot, New Zealander Sidney Parlato DFC, were all lost. Most of them were laid to rest in Cambridge City Cemetery. Lest we forget.
made one of these in the 60's, i think its changed a lot, there wasn't all that internal wing structure, the instructions were all words, by the end you new what all the parts were and what they did.
Nice music selection. On point!!
I remember saving up 7 shillings and 6 pence (37.5p) back in 1961 to buy the earlier iteration of this Airfix model. Spitfires, etc., cost 2 shillings (10p) and came in a plastic bag.
Really nice build. I have an old (pre1990) Matchbox Lancaster and Wellington in 1/72.... Your build has inspired me
That is awesome! The older Matchbox are some of my favourite kits, I'm sure that you'll have a fun time building it up :)
Man that cockpit taping/cutting part is going to need a few cups of tea to get through if I buy this x3
I did this one and another Airfix Lancaster from 1979, and masking both was brutal! Usually I'm up to that sort of task, but I've got 2 more of these in the storage and I'm going to buy masks for those.
Pour l'avoir monté il y a un peu plus de deux ans, superbe travail. Il est magnifique ! :o)
Я такой "Ланкастер" собирал лет 18 назад. Красил кистью, без масок. Получилось. Красивпя моель.
i love when he said there goes the cookies
+ 14 of my ancestor's fought in Lancaster's over Europe
Lovely build. The intercom voices tell a story -
Just fantastic watching you work at it .....relaxing ....thank you for uploading
Nice to see they give you "Sugar" with that! That would be my first choice!
I've saved the Suger decals for another Lancaster build that I'm restoring. I really need to get back to work on that one and get it finished.
The only problem with the build it didn't supply the bombs, which normally came with the kit, but you had to buy them separately which is ridiculous. The Revell kit supplied the bombs. Doesn't make sense to me at all. Your build was very good. Top marks.
This is very interesting. My uncle was a navigator on Lancaster's. Looking at the photo l have , "his" , if the exhaust stacks denote which Mark, is also a B.lll . I cannot denote the registration but underneath the front turret is Z squared ( the 2 is upper right corner) . In the photo the Lanc' has completed 60 missions (in rows of 10) and on the 50th there is a swastika to the right of the tenth indicating a gunner may have claimed an axis plane . The Lancaster was named " Grogs the Shot " Thank you
Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful touch the recording at the end...
Beautiful model really fantastic building
Outstanding build. I tried to paint one of my spitfires with your method but the results weren't as great as yours. Takes a man to know his own skill. :)
Where would the world be without masking tape? Great build I am jealous. Don't know about the weathering though - I prefer the pristine "out of the factory" look but then it comes down to personal choice. Great model building skills.
Truly inspirational video, thanks for sharing.
Good model, good music, good result. Well done.
Bonjour. superbe travail ,magnifique résultat 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice model. Lest We Forget.
My brother is at work rebuilding the original Lancaster NX611 Just Jane in Lincoln UK 🇬🇧
Beautifully built Lancaster, well done!
In a nutshell.... 'Brilliant'. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful work and a joy to behold. Looks like the canopy/fuselage fit was a challenge, but you saved it. Sorry, but I'm always picky about wear/staining. I would have like to see light grey as well as the dark stains on the upper wings. The petrol deposits left by lean-running Merlins invariably left grey/white staining from the photos I've studied. You have inspired me to try the Tamiya Lanc!
Thanks John, I did add some white, but it just made it lighter, the white effect didn't really stick. To top it off once I added the flat coat the entire color changed a lot and was sadly more muted. I'm slowly building another one, and with that one I hope to get the stains/streaks a lot better. Thanks for watching, I hope to build the Tamiya Lancaster one day too.
THAT'S INCREDIBLE !!!!! CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!!
You did the Lancaster a good service with your build.
Beautiful.... :) Lovely Airfix detail and a well executed build :)
... now I really just need to finish mine... ;)
That would be fantastic to see completed Rob :D Then of course you will have to build a Swedish version ;)
@@rebelsatcloudnine That jhas been my intention for some time, the Swedish version, I mean.. but I'm not quite sure how to go about, doing the jet engine.. Not sure if a resin part has ever been made, or if it's even available.
Really Cool video.
I happened to landed my plane at black pool airport this summer and was told, once I land, Taxi and park next to the Lancaster. I thought ATC was joking as I didn't realise it was even there with the spitfire and hurricane. Once I Taxied around the apron, there it was, so I parked my little Eurostar next to it. It was a pleasant and surprise to see it there. I interview the Pilot David. you can see it on my channel. Thanks for posting.
Totally enjoyable to watch, you must have the patience of a Saint! Well presented too! the music sets the scene! Well done!.