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  1. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    How come your father hasn't got the credit ? He surely deserves it.
  2. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    I built the old 1/24th Airfix Focke Wulf 190 Night Fighter and put it on Facebook, the model has the swastika on it's tail, I got a two week ban from them because I being a terrorist and goes against their shitty community standards, Facebook also deleted all the pictures of the model I...
  3. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Thank-You. Didn't Roy Cross do much of the artwork for Airfix ? I loved the scenes on the boxes, years ago after finishing such kits I used to cut out the painting then pin it up on my bedroom wall, still do it these days if I really like it.
  4. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    The Battleship looks great, 1/350th ? The Swastika is a touchy subject everywhere! Folk should get a back-bone and stop trying to blot out history, good or bad. I made the Revell 1/350th Tirpitz which went into a Barnes Wallis Museum.
  5. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Yes I know of that forum but not on it, to be honest I've stopped going on many forums I used to go on these days.
  6. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    She is a corker and it's great to read the replies, models & paints ain't so cheap these days, kits in the 80's anything from 50p to £15 max - Humbrol model paints in the 80's was 15p a tinlet.....tables are turned in today's times...kits from £6 to a whopping £800, Humbrol paints on average are...
  7. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    That's a great figure you've painted, never been that good in doing figures, never get the eyes right :oops::rolleyes::oops:
  8. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Do you know there's to be a full scale steel model of VN-N which when finished will be proudly sat on a large steel tripod, memorial is to be just a stones throw away from RAF Swinderby ?
  9. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    The old guy to the left of me was a 49 sqd RAF Veteran called Fred Hall, he's since passed away now, the stories he told me about flying Manchesters was unbelievable, he said you hear the horrible stories about the Manchester, most where true but limited only to a few Manchester kites, he said a...
  10. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Can I use that image of the logbook please ?
  11. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    You'd struggle to make it into a Manchester from this kit because of the 'canning' on the wings, chopping up & shorting the wings & making new nacelles will throw problems straight at you, you'd have to try a replicate the 'canning' on the scratch made parts, there's another big 1/32nd Lanc' kit...
  12. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Not wrong and this kit pushed me to the limit, the parts fractured and then snapped in pieces, so every part I removed off the sprue I had to repair/recement back up.....Ballache.
  13. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Thanks! I've been making Lancasters for 35 odd years now, so got the touch in making them look right, the average life of a Lancaster was a week, so weathering one with a mass of chipping & filth everywhere and looking like a Tank is wrong, unless it was a kite that had flown plenty of sorties.
  14. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Do you know Foz! I've no idea pal as I've never measured it but it's big! Does this pic help how big it is ? The little Lanc's hanging on the wall are 1/72nd, I'll see about measuring it......''Said The Nun To The Vicar''
  15. Ian Raleigh

    Recently finished very large scale Avro Lancaster model

    Been at this kit for over a year but finally managed to conquer it 💪 The kit is made by Border Model and the scale is 1/32nd, my tribute to R5689 VN-N, being such a big model it's hard to take photos of it.
  16. Ian Raleigh

    Pets

    We've two nutters! Jack Russell is called ''Milo'' and the Yorkie is called ''Jack'' Jack is some 13 years old now and has become unbearable, constantly barking and begging and making annouying noises, we've found out the cause of all this, he's gone deaf the poor old lad :oops: He now lives in...
  17. Ian Raleigh

    Anyone into making plastic models ? Recently completed this truck from the film ''Over The Top''

    It took me more than 7 months to build, I was at it for about 4 hours a day but at the weekends it was easily 12 hours, at a guess only the cab - bonnet - front wheel arches are standard kit parts, the rest of the truck was cut up/narrowed/lengthened....one hell of a custom model, I'll never...
  18. Ian Raleigh

    Anyone into making plastic models ? Recently completed this truck from the film ''Over The Top''

    Sorry my friend I can't make another, the model itself wasn't just straight out of a box, the base of the model was the Autocar A64B Tractor unit which was extensively modified with the chassis being extended & the front being pushed forwards, altering all the suspension with 3D printed hawk &...
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