1/72 Lancaster Questions

There's an optional transparent part in the Airfix Stirling for the FN7, although being old Airfix it's rather an approximate representation. I've probably got a spare if you're interested. Dave Rogers

thanks, but i have one from the squadron sunderland vac forms. i think it's pretty good.

It was the Blackburn Botha test pilot's report that read something like....

"Entry to this aircraft is very difficult - it should be made impossible!!"

Ken

Damn! beat me to it!

I'll show you how old I am: I remember an Airfix magazine Lancaster conversion from ...well, a long time ago, that suggested using a car taillight bulb for the turret. Kim M

i cannot visualize that. can you break it down for me?

You'd probably have to scour a parts yard for those now. I'm seeing more and more LEDs on the road.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

IIRC, you somehow carefully took off the base. I used the trick a couple years ago building damaged V-2. I used a small car light bulb and poked a hole in it (it worked around bulb #4) to represent a damaged fuel tank. Kim M

a 1157 bulb seems big for a turret.

Are there currently available any kits of the USS IOWA. The one that sailed in WW2, not the ship that had that terrible accident in one of its forward main gun turrets? Mike

Actually it was modernized several times, including the time in 1966 that I saw it taken out of mothballs and refitted in the Philadelphia Navy Yard drydock. Had pictures, but one of my messmates stole my camera before I could get them processed 8~C. KEEE-rist, but that thing was huge! From Philly and after trials, it was sent to Vietnam.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

Very close but it was actually the USS New Jersey refitted '67-'68. Recommissioned '68 with one deployment to Viet Nam (1968). Decommissioned in

1969. See: The ship is now a museum ship in Camden, NJ. The Iowa is mothballed in California while the Missouri is in Pearl and the Wisconsin in Norfolk as museum ships.

Dave

The New Jersey is sitting over in Camden but Mike probably already knows that. She shows up occasionally on Philly TV.

Bill Banaszak, MFE

Welcome back, Mike!

Nothing like a drydock to impress you with size. I saw the Wasp when it was in Boston's drydock; quite a site! Liable to cause vertigo whether you're looking up or down. Cheers,

The Keeper (of too much crap!)

You're right, my bad. God that was a long time ago......

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

goddam nixon for closing the first naval district.

Two different ships.

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger