Royal Australian Air Force Avro Lancaster 1/72 Revell

"Q for Queenie VI", Avro Lancaster A66-1 (RAF reg. ED930) around 1946, built from the excellent Revell kit. This project took, umm, about 2 years from the initial research to the taking of these pictures. Perhaps worth the wait, great fun it was anyway.

Oh, about those spinners. I still think it's possible they were light blue or grey, but looking carefully at the Hopton photo there are chrome-style reflections from the ground and sky so I chose pure aluminium in the end. If actual colours are confirmed some day , it's easy to paint those spinners again.

SEAC Mohawk, Hurricane IIB & Lancaster on display

RAF SEAC Mohawk 1/72 Revell

A leftover kit from the Finnish Air Force Morane project has leftover decals recycled from 3 different Revell kits: a Hurricane, a Wellington and a Spitfire (I think). Paints for the SEAC camouflage are: Humbrol matt 29 for Dark Earth, Revell matt 68 for Dark Green (closest match to a Humbrol 116 tin which was dried up) and homebrew Revell 76 and 50 mix for Medium Sea Grey undersides.

The final results are quite nice for an informal "let's see what we have available in the stash" -style model. However if  you are using this as a reference, please note: 1) camouflage is for the Mohawk IV while the kit is (possibly) a Mohawk III 2) the serial # is unfortunately fictional, couldn't find the correct BS734 combination decals in single font so this became a BN888. But then again, before that knowledge this model didn't look too bad, didn't it?