1/48 Tamiya Lancaster

[Mylightweight]

Hi Guys,

I have been blessed with an awful lot of cash for Christmas and am thinking of buying myself a Tamiya 1/48 Lanc.

I have two questions,

1. I have heard the surface detail is all raised, is this true?

2. I can't work the forum search tool to find anyone that has built one (hint hint ) if anyone can help me find one

Any thoughts on this kit, it would probably be the Dambuster version of the kit

Cheers, merry Christmas
Chris

[Smiffy]

Yes the panel lines are raised on Tamiya's big Lanc.

Some lincs for Lancs:
http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewtop ... er#p191841
http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewtop ... er#p136225
http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewtop ... er#p125305

Thats what I found in the first 18 pages of searching for tamiya and lancaster

Hope it helps

[Gaz262]

That first link from Smiffy was my Lanc, a great kit let down by a very shallow bomb-bay which seems to throw out the cockpit dimensions a bit.
Raised panel lines don't really matter that much on this kit as a lot of it is in black! - I've also yet to see a bad kit with raised lines. Look at the real thing and see if you can tell which is engraved & which is raised.....

Most of all, HAVE FUN with it!

[Smiffy]

Gaz, your Tamiya Lanc is a damn fine build Though I must confess that I had failed to notice the shallowness of the bomb bay. I am sorely temped to get the Grand Slam kit. If only I had the space to store such a huge model when built.