Wingleader book review - Lancaster Mks II, VI, X, Type 464 and B1 (Special) - Photo archive 18 

Thanks for the presentation! Seriously, I’m not very much into planes, but all these small guides for modelers are of huge worth! And the price point made me love it even more! Already browsing through the website…😄

Many thanks for purchasing the book and for producing such a detailed and useful review, I'm really glad you enjoyed it. Re. your comment about the Type 464 undercarriages, they were in fact completely standard and not strengthened or changed in any way. The undercarriage on the B.I (Special) on the other hand was the strengthened version borrowed from the Lincoln and featured enlarged wheels, brakes and treaded tyres. Good luck with the modelling!

A fantastic resource for modellers, especially if interested in building Lancasters. Another great share, MN....thank you!

I have the Mosquito Bomber edition from this series that is part of my reference stack and it’s an exquisite book like yours. Great images and color side views - helpful as I’m building a Canadian built B.25 (B.XXV) model.

Wow. Exactly what you need if you're intent on winning modeling contests, or building a specific plane for descendants of its crew. Such reference works aren't just for rivet counters. As you say, too often commercial kits of allegedly different variants just have different decals and maybe some extra clear parts. At 20:00 you read my mind. That patch looks almost exactly like a roundel. 😊

I’ve been eyeing this series for a while. As I live in the US, I’ll have to save up to buy most of the range so that shipping is worth it.

Good book. Will be ordering one👍👍

Great review , really enjoyed it . I’ll be looking into wing leader series of books 📚 Hope you do some more book reviews . Thanks

Excellent review really enjoyed that! thanks

Nice presentation, the book is on my to get list. We had Heritagecon (Canada’s biggest IPMS show) this past Sunday and it was held in the room with the Mk X Lancaster which was under some repair but will be airborne next year I believe, it was a bit surreal. An impressive craft. Thanks for an interesting presentation.

So many Lancasters so little time I have the two Airfix ll and lll but haven't worked them into my build schedule yet because I wasn't sure how I wanted to build and display them yet. Now I'm glad I did based on the tremendous historical detail in this book. . BTW - Grand Slam was 22,000 pounds. I heard a report that there were some Grand Slams on display at a museum in the UK. I believe they had been there about 20 years. Somehow, they discovered one was still armed. EOD must have had an exciting day that day. With all of these variants it makes you wonder how in the world they had time to make the changes. Separate question, are you aware of a Spitfire MK ll variant, John Magee , author of High Flight, flew those when he wrote the poem , I wanted to work on a tribute diorama. Ironically I ordered an ICM KIT 1 /48 scale ground personnel for Spitfire. They came from Ukraine, Hard to image being at war and still making kits. They met my objectives so I turned around and ordered another. Back to the Lancasters, As a back up to the B29, they trained with the 509th incase the B29 could not be modified for the A bombs. Last , have you used VMS products. Sorry for such a long post, you are closest to the history of what I like to build. Thanks for another great review, looking forward to your net build. Cheers

Good books these.

Интересный буклет..но без масштабных чертежей...😢😮

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You’ve been cheated. Lancs were originally going to nuke Japan. 3 were flying around painted completely black with no markings I would assume windows would have been different. Maybe other things

Hi MN, great reference material and technical information. Thanks for the walk through.