It first saw service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942, and as the strategic bombing effort over Europe gained traction, it became the primary aircraft for night-time bombing campaigns. Engine nacelles without exhaust covers and the late type rear gun turret equipped the 12.7mm twin guns can be reproduced. Keep me updated don’t see many RC Lanc’s flying these days. I take mine out a couple of times a year and it just looks so good in the air. You can’t do much with them just circuits really it’s just like a big glider so you don’t need bags of power.

There are two sheets of decals and one small additional patch. The sheets are big mostly because of the roundels. Dealing with RAF WWII aircraft makes this encounter inescapable. There is not much more than the letters and the roundels, but this is understandable, considering the camouflage schemes and the way those birds were presented to the world. As much stealth as the time offered. Well, at least for the British. Germans had different approach which proved to be the proper one. Here’s the start of the wing repair and conversion to Brushless motors. I’ve managed to get a 400 replacement combo deal from BRC hobbies which included a speed controller motor and an 8×4 prop. The motor is a Towerpro 2408-21T rated at 1450Kv and the speed controller is 15Amps. I use 4000mAH 3SLipo. On the 8×4 props, BRC says it will give 145 Watts on 3S Lipo so I should have ample power with 4 of them. On brushed motors, I think it was pulling about 250 Watts for all four which worked out to about 60-70 watts per pound.The Lancaster is based on the twin-engine Avro Manchester, which was designed in response to Air Ministry Specification P.13/36 for a powerful medium bomber for "world-wide service" in the late 1930s. Overall, everything is very good on the plastic end of things. Maybe the wheels can be substituted, probably some PE elements can be added here and there, but from this point on, it is too late for HK Models. Everything now lies in the hands of aftermarket makers. And judging from the basis that we have on our hands, this will turn into a brilliant scale model plane. The crash was very heavy and very little survived, but I had a second less damaged Lancaster wing, so I rebuilt her. This time I installed brushless motors and ran a separate receiver battery.

Paints suggested are from AK Interactive, who were obviously involved with this project from the get to, Mr.Hobby/Gunze and Tamiya, latter one being mandatory as a good reference for proper colors. Fellow modelers from UK, which will be probably the best part of the gang who will build this beast will have plenty of references at hand. Many paint manufacturers offer sets and pretty soon we should expect Lancaster paint set to appear as well, having in mind that the box of this kit features a badge saying: Avro Lancaster Series and the fact that Wingnut Wings are prepping for their own show. In other words – high demand for specific sets and aftermarket is certain. Wingnut will most definitely offer a different approach and as far as their kits and devotion goes, it is pretty certain, that they will shine very brightly compared to HK Models Lancaster. Plastic Sprues: This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. The engines are brilliantly done. They could use some scratch building, but they do not need any resin substitute. Important, considering the number of engines embedded in this plane. Building process of those is not simple, especially of the frames supporting them, but nothing that one cannot cope with.Only couple of years ago nobody dared to ask for such a huge kit. Not in their wildest dreams. Even in 48 th scale Lancaster is big and it needs room, which is rare commodity even in the largest scale modeling collections. But things changed and slowly, large scale planes came into the spotlight, quite often jumping from 72 nd scale directly into 32 nd or 24 th. Apparently there was a hidden demand for those. Now, Airfix offer Typhoon in 24 th scale and are about to hit us with a Hellcat in that scale too. Hobby Boss released the Liberator, which is to be available in J and D options. Trumpeter up-scaled their STUKA in 24 th too. Large scale planes market is flourishing.