pic's of a paper lancaster bomber

just a few shots of my 1/32 flymodel avro lancaster bomber, the other lanc’ is the 1/48 tamiya grand slam. i can tell you lot i’d never make another paper plane, just one slip with knife and it’s had it !!

thanks ian …hope i’m not boring you lot. don’t forget you can click on pic to enlarge,lol

Very nice work on both. Your camo and weathering are top notch[tup]

Andy

Very nice, but as with you, I found paper models simply not worth the trouble. Since they come pre-decorated, if you even get a stray dab of gule on them and overlook it, there goes a perfect finish. You can’t remove it without destroying the paper’s decorated surface finish. And for paper, painting can be a nightmare, sine the paper can soak up the base solvents. Also, they do not “weather well”, that is, the paper over time yellows and loses its quality as the acids eat away the wood pulp in it (as it has with a couple that I still have unbuilt), whereas you can literally disassemble and completely re-do a plastic model after a few years if you want. And if something “breaks off” it can be a major disastor instead of re-gluing and a bit of touch-up paint, not to mention if something “leans on” your model when you are not around, it collapses, folds, or crushes.

Tom T [C):-)]

I have to disagree. Paper model can worth the effort. I agree with you concerning the pre-painted paper models but when you scratchbuild something and you choose the proper paper, you can hardly tell it’s a paper model once painted and weathered. Take a look here http://www.finescale.com/FSM/CS/forums/512802/ShowPost.aspx

Thank you for shedding some light on this for me Yann, but still my main problem is that in fact I have model kits in both stash, unbuilt, as well as built, that I have had since 1975, and only the plastic ones have stood the “test of time” for me. I mean, I am looking at re-doing my Hasegawa P-12 for the third time, after having done my Hase P-26 twice, whereas all the paper models I have built (including a nice He-123) got crushed and crumpled here and there along the way, and were more difficult to repair then to build in the first place. I mean you are talking about making flattened,crumpled wings round, curved and straight again! The worst I have had to do was grind a parts sprue flat for an Academy Nieuport 27’s landing gear struts that got damaged during Hurricane Katrina here in South Louisiana. A little splice-joint, a little plastic welder, and a touch of paint, a bit of tightening of the rigging and viola, better then new!

OK?

Tom T [C):-)]

Sorry for highjacking your thread ian.

I agree with you Tom, paper model is a little harder to work and definitly more fragile. Good results can be achieve but it is not the same work. I can build several plastic models in a month and have wonderfull results with all of them but I cannot build a descent paper model in a month, it takes more time and effort. But … you know … once in a while![:)]

highjacking your thread…LOL CAN’T STOP LAUGHING…ian [:D]

Great job on the Lanc! Personally, I love paper models. I use the free ones for school projects all the time. My biggest project was using 5 WACO CG-4A kits to make a normandy diorama.

The paper Lancaster must have come from Poland. I can’t read the serial number though. Which one is it? LL807? Do you have to keep in the dark to stop it fading?

hello antoni sorry it’s a bit late in the reply, yes it is ‘LL807’ and the model is made by a polish

firm called ‘fly model’, i keep my lanc in a corner of my room where the sun does not hit it, this lanc’ is only 1 of 2 built up in U.K…thanks ian.

I’ve come across a few of their paper models, usually Spitfires and their like. You must like a lot to take that on.

On the night the RAF launched a large raid on the Nordstern oil plant at Gersenkirchen to which 300 Sqn Squadron contributed eight of its . Of the 17 aircraft lost three were Polish. Lancaster Mk I LL807 BH.N was hit by AA over and its crew, F/Lt Jerzy Różański, F/O Wacław Bakun, F/O Mieczysław Hann, Sgt Gustaw Szeliga, Sgt Albin Pacuła, Sgt Rajmund Bradzo, F/Sgt Marian Wróblewski were all killed.

BH.C DV282 crashed into the sea with the crew F/Sgt Franciszek Rembecki, F/O Bogusław Morski, F/O Jósef Feil, Sgt Feliks Bladowski, F/Sgt Jan Bokroś, Sgt Stanisław Miszturak, Sgt Władysław Leppert, all drowned apart from Morski who became a POW.

Lancaster Mk III BH.S JA683 was shot down near the target by a night fighter and its crew, F/O Henryk Burkiewicz, P/O Kazimierz Andruszkiewicz, F/O Eugeniusz Józefowicz, Sgt Edward Porowski, Sgt Jan Sumiga, Sgt Michał Golec, Sgt Lucjan Klucha, were killed instantly except for Klucha who jumped and hid for two days before being captured and executed by the Germans.

On the night of 30th June 13 were sent to attack the Vierzon rail junction. Replacement Lancaster Mk III BH.N ED814 was shot down by a night fighter and the crew, F/Sgt Władysław Fudali, F/O Zygmunt Ziembiński, P/O Bolesław Cwojdziński, Sgt Józef Bukowski, Sgt Ignacy Małecki, Sgt Klemensw Lechnicki, Kazimierz Bogusz, were killed.

Techmod have decals in 1/72 and 1/48 scale for several 300 Sqn Lancasters including W/Cdr Pożyczka’s ‘Girl in a Champagne Glass’. You can find some photographs of 300 Sqn Lancasters at: www.roman.biskupin.wroc.pl/dyw300zdj.html and more information (in English) at: www.geocities.com/skrzydla/

thank you antoni, for that very interesting read, always wondered if there was any history of ’ l l 807’…ian

It looks good. Besides where else are you going to get a Lanc in 1/32nd?

Cheers,

Eric

Very impressive work, Ian!

Mark