Trying to remember the name of a British WW2 plane

Hi Attackdonut(thats a cool name btw) the only one that springs to mind with that description is the Beaufighter as this has a slightly inverted gull wing when viewed from the front. if this isn't it can you add anything to the description to help narrow the search down(like no of crew-guns/turrets-any external bomb load) hope this helps.......Greg

Thanks :) My normal full name is Flying Jelly Attack Confectionary, but it usually doesn't fit in forums, so I have to narrow it down.

I've been doing some looking myself, and it was either that, or the Mosquito that I recall.

Either way, are their good model kits made of these planes?

Taymia makes a really nice mosquito with good detail, the problem is the bomb bay dosn't open or have detail (does the mosquito even have a bomb bay?). They make both 1/72 and 1/48. By the way, cool name.

The Mossie was pretty straight winged...and it did have a bomb bay. I would love to someday model the Cookie Mossie which had a bulged bomb bay to account for the 5000 lb Cookie High Density bomb....

The Beaufighter, which Tamiya also does wonderfully-- was also straight winged....but no bomb bay...it usually only carried a bomb on each wing.

As for RAF twin-engine medium bombers--

There was:

Armstrong Whitworth WHitley
Avro Manchester
Bristol Beaufort
Bristol Blenheim
Douglas Boston
Handley Hampden
Vickers-Armstrongs Wellington

Out of all of them-- the only one that looks sort of gull winged from the front profile is the Whitley. But I probably didn't list all of them....that's all I have in my book here....

That's the Manchester

Bristol Blenheim

http://www.nucleus.com/~ltwright/hampden.jpg
Handley Hampden

that's the Whitly

The Boston is the same as the American A-20 Havoc
i think that's all on the list.

I have just checked with my book containing allof the RAFs machines and the only one that comes close is the B25 Mitchel. I even checked prewar and post war but htey all have straight wings with varying amounts of dihedral. In fact the only twin engined a/c with a cranked or gull wing is the RNs Gannet. I know it looks like a single engine but it is a twin. Some more detail would help.
Dai

DeHavilland Hornet (or Sea Hornet)????

Some called it .... Tim?

Canted wing thing doesn't sound familiar to me either

really want to make a Manchester (since I live there), I think my Airfix Lanc will have to be sacrificed

Papalazerblue
If you do do the Manchester could you give a write up?
ModelArt Australia reciently did an article in two parts on converting a Lanc to a Manchester but it contained those dredded words....This part is no longer available/out of production.
One of the first conversions that I ever did was a 1:144 Lancaster to Manchester. It was not all that accurate but it did look the part. ( didn't know about the shorter wingspan. Excuse I was only 13 at the time).
Dai

Dai
I bought a couple of resin engines for a Manc once but they're definitely out of production. It's going to need some major surgery so you may have to wait a while - but I'll do it one day

Take a look at a three view of the B-25. The front view should show a definate gull shape. The B-25 had straight dihedral for the first 22 aircraft, but for control purposes from the 23rd a/c on the dihedral was reduced at the outboard side of the engines resulting in the tips being 8 to 12 inches lower at the tips than the origional. Not near as noticable as an F4U but its there. Some photographic angles tend to exagerate it.