Well my Deagostini R2 build has been on hold now for 12 months due to the Australian dispatch company going bankrupt, so thought it time to bring forward an epic build which I've dreamt about for decades. That is to build a large scale Lancaster and install lighting and motors and synchronize this up to a Lancaster startup and shutdown sequence. Lots of googling and I found a guy in Eastern Europe that designs the computers to make this all happen. So many nights thinking about how to put this all together. I'm 3 months into the build with another month or so to go till completion.

Hopefully this weekend I can finally bring the aircraft together for the first time and finally seal her up. Then I can start to do some final editing of the soundtrack, apply different weights to the props and balance them so that they better sync with the engine soundtrack, so as to get a better startup/shutdown experience.

This build has produced a lot of firsts for me. I'm new to airbrushing so this is the first plane that I've used the airbrush on. The 40 year old decals looked pretty naff after all this time so I've gone with a masking kit for 90% of the markings. Plus trying to integrate all the electronics with a chunky cool starter button, and then trying to run the whole thing off lithium batteries for model displays (worked fine with the plug in transformer but a few overheating issues using Lithium).

Anyway enjoy the pics of the build thus far. Sorry for the pic intensive post. As a bonus there's a video at the end which shows the startup/shutdown sequence - still in early days.













































[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8R89j5W52g[/youtube]

Lancaster Startup Video

Great build!

Very interesting build and great work being shown.... very well done....

Regards

Alan

Major hurdle passed this weekend. The fuselage has been sealed up and everything still works. Major effort trying to get all the wiring in and not severing wires. Fuselage painted as well. That's it till next weekend.

You have a lovely finish on your aircraft Simon.

It looks a really good model to work with.

Tony

Starting to look like a proper plane now. Build and Paintwork finished. Now to start on the weathering, plus finish off the diorama base. Added weights to props, balanced and test run okay. Lighting okay. Pics and a small vid at the end to show progress.











https://youtu.be/lP_gm1ELFNc

Love how this is turning out Simon, amazing work.....

Regards

Alan

Looks great Simon i had the same problem with my decals regards Phil

Dynamic scale modeling.

Dynamicscalemodeling

Let google translate the page. Great little kits. A bit of tweaking required, but end result is good.