Avro Manchester 1/72 Scale

This is a conversion that I built back in the 1990s and received a Highly Commended at the IPMS Nationals competition.

The kit used was the Airfix Lancaster with DB Productions' resin engines and propellers, outer wing panels and the central fin were scratch built using plastic card. Tailplanes and the outer fins were adapted from the kit parts, the bomb aimer's transparency was replaced using the Aeroclub vacformed early Lancaster part. I chose to build an early production version of the type thus avoiding the need to find a suitable mid-upper turret.


Finished as s/n L7288 EM-H of No. 207 Squadron the model was airbrushed using Extracolor for the camouflage and Humbrol for the undersides. Decals came from Modeldecal, Almark and Extradecal generic sets except the Medium Sea Grey serial numbers which were hand painted onto clear decal film.


This work by Roland Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.