Hey all! Much like Toshi's mosquito, I am building this 1/72 offering for the RAF group build...but since it is 1/72 scale, I am not focusing on the details as much as that big 1/32 Mossie, but I am making an in flight display...
I am building it as 617 squardon's leader, Guy Gibson's aircraft, as it was flying and dropping his bouncing bomb over the Möhne Dam in the Ruhr valley in germany, May, 1943.
Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr
I am using propblur.com's spinning props...
Lancaster dambusters build...propblur propellers assembly by Justin Ryan, on Flickr
First camo color:
Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr
Second camo color:
Lancaster dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr
Camo and decals done:
Lancaster Dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr
Lancaster Dambusters build by Justin Ryan, on Flickr
"...failure to do anything because someone else can do better makes us rather dull and lazy..."
Mortal as I am,I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the Earth...
