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Already have Mike, Wingsectioning on the agenda later today. Cees

Glynn Powell in New Zealand has been building new Mosquito airframes for several years now. He uses all the original materials and techniques. There are many pics of just the wooden construction on the web. The wood is actually very light of colour. Perhaps this helps. Cees

Hi Paul, Any progress on this great build? Cees

Hi George, All perspex. Those turrets were some of the earliest developed by fraser-nash. Here is a general arrangement drawing of the Manchester Cees

So the rear and dorsal turrets need to be completely newmade. Cees

Nice colour photographs, even that early in the war. Cees

Hadn't thought about that hehe, Cees

Hi Clark, Welcome to LSM. Hadn't spotted you earlier. The catch is that the Manchester was fitted with two Rolls royce Vulture engines, and the Lancaster had four Merlins. The span of the Manchester was shorter as well. So the outer wings need to be sawed apart and two Vulture nacelles need to be scratchbuild. I did it before on a Tamiya Lanc so the project is feasible. Abd it is fun fun fun. Cees

Hi all, After two consecutive displays at Telford the time has come for the HK Models prototype Lancaster To start a new career, to transform into it's original twinengined predeccessor the AVRO Manchester. the basic kit has been carefully disassembled into it's major parts. Luckily all parts came away cleanly. The transparencies are opaque and cannot be used but will provide great service as masters for new parts. The model is almost devoid of details but will provide a great canvas for rescribing etc. This thread will only be posted here on LSM as a long term project. I am looking forward to scratchbuild the interior etc. Anyway, here are some pics for starters. Cheers Cees

No worries Ralp, I had to work anyway Yesterday evening I spent some hours trying to nail the very subtle rear nacelle shape using a plastic card template. But the shape is very very subtle so gave up. But I have found a 1/48 scale drawing in the Scale Modellers Datafile which will be of great help. Too easy is boring isn't it Cees

Ralph, It looks much better like that. Cees

That's on this evenings agenda! Cees

Session over, Here are the almost finished (save some filling and polishing) single piece flaps and fitted in the flapshrouds. Looking like the prototype flap set up already. I am happy. Cees

Is it possible to overspray a very light mist of flesh to tone down the colour? Cees

Poor rivetcounters. Cees

Great builds Ralph, The Mk I especially looks great bar the spinner. It looks like a Mk II but is wrong for an early Mk I. Cees

Very nice, Those fuel lines on the outside will they not be in the way of the fuselage covering? Cees

Don't know about tubing on the landinggear but with heavier loads carried I would suspect some beefing up of the undercart was Needed. Just finished bringing the gap on the flappies, following by a heavy sanding session later. Sander Schuurmans

Sorry to be a bit late at the party, but this is one very nice build. Oh and about that unknown aircraft type (if it hadn't been identified it yet) I think it's a Junkers 86. Keep this build going. Cees

Jeroen, As far as I know the landinggear was the same throughout the operational life of the Mosquito. This was one of the few types that were "right" from the start. Apart from the nacelles, wingtips, and short span horizontal tailplane the basic airframe didn't change. Cees

Crappy pic time. Both split flaps in the process of being unsplit flaps. Taping them flat to the cutting mat serves as a jig to Keep everything flat. Flat flaps so to speak. Cees

This is very nice. I am working on a conversion of the prototype Mossie in 1/32. Looking at your work I wonder if a section of the fuselage/wing Could be done to show the wooden construction. Hmm.......... Cees

Looking forward to seeing this evolve Arno. Cees

Must be Van Gaalish: he always gets his sin ( meaning he always gets what he wants). Cees

Very nicely done, you have earned yourself a glass of Cavia. Cees