New project pics

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Hi Scott, Online shopping is nice but it lacks the 'feel good factor' that you get when you go into a model shop and there it is - on the shelf - saying BUY ME. Good choice, based on your last model I expect it to be finished by Friday. Enjoy Derek

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There are some great tips on this video for making splashes in water Revell PT-109 PT Boat + Diorama Tutorial on youtube. Only trouble is its in japaneese. I think He is using some sort of modelling clay and silicone from a tube mixed with different colours, but he gets some amazing results well worth going through all of his videos. I could'nt remember how to do the link to it as I don't use youtube a lot, but if you copy the blue writing and paste it into google I would think you will find it OK

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Way ahead of you on making the splash effect, will be working on that tonight. Iam finishing the dam then building the Lancaster, i was thinking of adding a pair of flak 38's one in each tower.....what do you think? As the Mohne dam had a pair of flak guns defending it anyway, so opinions please>

scott

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I remember back in about 76 or 77 standing looking down the side of the Monasea Dam and being able to see where the repairs had been done after the war. My dad spoke with a chap who worked there as an engineer and turned out that he was a German gunner based on the dam in charge of one of the flak 38's. His story was very interesting as some relation of his in the UK was an engineer on the Lancaster and had sent him pictures of it, he just loved the Lancaster and on their bombing run he could not bring himself to shoot at them. As soon as the war was over he came to the UK so as he could see a lancaster up close. He spent 5 years living and working helpingto rebuilding work in Coventry. He did get to see a Lancaster and had the great pleasure of being taken up in one, He said it was one of the best aircraft he had ever seen and he had also a tatoo done on his back depicting the attack. My dad kept in contact with Jorgen until his death in 1982.

I look forward to watching this space for the progression on your build.

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I remember back in about 76 or 77 standing looking down the side of the Monasea Dam and being able to see where the repairs had been done after the war. My dad spoke with a chap who worked there as an engineer and turned out that he was a German gunner based on the dam in charge of one of the flak 38's. His story was very interesting as some relation of his in the UK was an engineer on the Lancaster and had sent him pictures of it, he just loved the Lancaster and on their bombing run he could not bring himself to shoot at them. As soon as the war was over he came to the UK so as he could see a lancaster up close. He spent 5 years living and working helpingto rebuilding work in Coventry. He did get to see a Lancaster and had the great pleasure of being taken up in one, He said it was one of the best aircraft he had ever seen and he had also a tatoo done on his back depicting the attack. My dad kept in contact with Jorgen until his death in 1982. I look forward to watching this space for the progression on your build.

I just love little snippets of background history like this ,its fascinating and really brings a subject to life. Thanks for sharing it with us allan, i must admit ,the more i read this thread the more its making me want to get the dambusters lanc and dam, cant wait to see it done , scott! cheers tony

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Well the dam is finished and the lanc is in due process, i hate masking canopies especially ones this small not sure how it is going to look. What i must add here is that i have tried to paint the dam as if it were night time, which i can tell you is more of a challenge than painting as if it were daylight. I just have to get a pair of 1/72 flak 38's for the towers so i estimate the end of next week sometime before completion. Allan cheers for the back ground history as yak says it is always interesting to find these things out.

scott

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That was a very interresting documentary you posted there Al.I recall an other raid of this type involving mossies with bouncing bombs dropped over land on a raid on the V2 rocket factories. Any one know what the film was called that was based on this?

Sorry for going a little bit off topic.

633 Squadron?

ooopppss got a bit mixed up on the thread order