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Post by kiwiruna on Feb 19, 2021 18:37:55 GMT 12
Hi Guys, I'm currently working on the Revell 1/72 Dambuster Lanc,a rather nice kit even though the wing Dihedral is too flat and the main wheels are too big, I've got a set of resin wheels on the way from BNA models and I 'm not going to attempt the wing fix it looks easy enough but....
As I'm wanting to do Les Munro's aircraft ED921 AJ*W did he have any nose art (I've seen pic/comments about a saint figure on all the a/c but the concensus seems to be they were painted post mission) or changes from the BIII special that I need to address. Also for aircraft serials is the W just an inverted Mor vice versa.
The included markings are for Gibson,Brown and Martin.
Any help /comments etc greatfully accepted Thanks
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Post by Dave Homewood on Feb 19, 2021 22:33:46 GMT 12
Are you planning to depict it as it was on the actual Dams raid mission?
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Post by kiwiruna on Feb 20, 2021 19:03:23 GMT 12
Hi Dave,
I like to if I can do it out of the box, with perhaps a small amount of scratch building.
Was his A/C one of those fitted with the Ventral gun? I vaguely remember reading that at least one had a single 303calibe mg fitted.
Cheers
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Post by nuuumannn on Mar 4, 2021 18:45:29 GMT 12
Hi Guys, As I'm wanting to do Les Munro's aircraft ED921 AJ*W did he have any nose art (I've seen pic/comments about a saint figure on all the a/c but the concensus seems to be they were painted post mission) or changes from the BIII special that I need to address.
Hi Kiwiruna, I think that the saint nose art was applied to Les Knight's aircraft ED912 after the raid, but at the time of the dams raid only one Lancaster had nose art, that was ED915, which wasn't used on the raid since it went U/S, so it's safe to say that adding the 'W' code and the serial should be a sound representative of the aircraft at the time of the dams raid. ED921 was scrapped in 1946, sadly. Not one of the surviving Type 464 Lancs was preserved for posterity. As for the .5 inch gun in the belly, did the dams raid aircraft have that fitted during the raid? I can't recall seeing anything about it. |
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