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On 4/30/2023 at 11:49 PM, gjdale said:

No photo to hand, but I think you can get the idea?

Well, not really, Grant. I think I must be getting dense in my advancing age!!

The level of detail and perfection in your work is as good as it gets. It's quite simply masterful.

She's really looking good, vaddoc!

Beautiful, Doug!

Magnificent work, John!

Fantastic detailing, Grant, and a excellent explanation of how to prepare white metal and resin castings!

On 4/29/2023 at 6:01 PM, gjdale said:

Finally, all parts are gently buffed by hand using a felt wheel from a Dremel that has been cut in half (a tip I picked up from the kit designer).

Why was it better to cut the felt buffing wheel in half? Can you post a photo of it? 

Looks great, David, and the finish line is in sight!

3 hours ago, chris watton said:

Not sure about the inner bulwark ladders, may delete those....

I rather like those bulwark ladders. I think they add some interesting additional detail to the deck.

I'm glad to see you are making progress on this interesting build and I think your planking looks great.

Do you ever receive a response from Ancre about the errors that you have found in their plans?

Beautiful work on all the rigging, Pete!

Your Medway is coming along nicely, Bob, and your workspace looks good too. I have a very similar workspace in the spare bedroom with a small desk in front of a window that looks out onto the backyard. I envy those folks who have large work areas and room for all their tools and machines.

Looking really good, Joe!

Stunning work!!

Your model is coming along very nicely!

Your model is looking great, Bryan. Nice work!

I'm enjoying following your build log. I think this is a very beautiful model and I've always thought it might be a good model for a first scratch build. I'm sorry to see that you are finding errors in the plans though but it looks like you are doing a great job at overcoming them as you go along. Good luck on your build! 

I hope you heal up quickly, Grant. You might need to stick to something far less dangerous like making rip cuts on your table saw than slicing vegetables in the kitchen!

On 3/24/2023 at 12:42 PM, catman42 said:

anyone know if Widwest Products is still making this kit or others It seems very hard to find and no address for them

thanks

You can often find the original Midwest Products model kits on eBay. The Indian Canoe and the Peterborough Canoe are often for sale.

The Bear Mountain Boat Shop also makes what looks like a very nice 1:12 canoe model: https://www.bearmountainboats.com/products/scale-model-canoe 

Very nice work, Bryan, and an excellent build log as well. I look forward to following your progress.

I just happened to come across your build log, Bill, and your Yankee Hero is absolutely beautiful! Really well done!

Truly exceptional work, Grant!

2 hours ago, Freebird said:

Did I take too much off, or do the bulkheads on either side need be sanded some more?

I like to be of help, Glenn, but fairing the bulkheads or frames one of the ship modeling tasks that I am the most uncertain about. I've done the same thing in same areas that you are showing in your photos. I find the forward 3 or so bulkheads to be the most difficult to get right even when I'm checking often with a batten. I seem to always end up with a gap as well and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

I'll be interested to see how you proceed. Good luck!

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The Avro Lancaster is a British Second World War heavy bomber. It was designed and manufactured by Avro as a contemporary of the Handley Page Halifax, both bombers having been developed to the same specification, as well as the Short Stirling, all three aircraft being four-engined heavy bombers adopted by the Royal Air Force (RAF) during the same wartime era.

 

In 1943 the Lancaster was part of a raid over the Ruhr area with the aim of suppressing the region's industrial output. A lot of civilian were terrorized both by the Nazis and the bombing. So were part of my family who died during the bombing of Duisburg. The Lancaster project is some kind of process of coming to terms with the past. It was important to defeat the Nazi terror regime but as in all wars the civilian losses were pure tragedy. The Ruhr area was the target of many intense attacks during the years 1940-45. With the so-called first Battle of the Ruhr (spring and summer of 1943), the attacks reached an unprecedented intensity and were directed for the first time against the population.

 

The goal was not only to destroy weapons production but also to destroy the morale of the population. The people in the Ruhr area had to suffer under the bombs and the rule of the Nazis at the same time, who had declared "total war" in Berlin shortly before the bombing of the Ruhr. This led to the outcry among the population, "Dear Tommy, fly on, only the Ruhr workers live here. Fly on to Berlin, they all cheered 'yes'."

 

This statement, placed under the wings of the aircraft, represents the central ambivalence of liberation and suffering alongside the 3D typography of 43-44 and Ruhr. My good friend Erick Miotke put these thoughts into his fantastic composition which supports the animation in an impressive way.

 

Music: "Warmachine Contradiction" from Erick Miotke.

 

Here's what he says to his composition: "the track for tom's lancaster model and film is to be understood as a nod to the heroic pilots of these warmachines, just as to the civilians who experienced the hell unleashed on them in the german city targets. It is a contradiction expressed in the two different parts in the track: heaven and hell with a painful but peaceful ending."

I'll pull up a chair and follow along too, Rick. The Cheerful is a gorgeous model that I have always admired and I'm sure I will learn a lot watching you build her. Good luck!

The weathering looks great, Tim. This is turning out to be a very fine model.