Good morning Nigel, the Gannet is looking great, I know it will be a stunner when you are finished, I would really likevto see one in 'real life' one day, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les

Always your engineer thinking in your builds.

Some "economical" people stick their scribing tape onto some trimmed-to-size Tamiya tape which you can stick and unstick several times more often than scribing tape alone.

Very tempted by this. I'm not far off completing the Pocher Lotus 72D, which has been a challenging, but immensely satisfying build so far.

Good to see you back building, always enjoy your videos. All the best 👍

Medical Benzine Cleaner also works very well Nige, it's also good for removing paint if you accidentilly get some on a clear part👍

I so look forward to your content!

I know it's been 3 years since you've made this video but was hoping you might be able to point me in the direction of where you got the hull profile plan you show early on in this video. I have the Webb plans but they're at 1/192 scale and I'm hesitant to chop them up to fit in a scanner or copier. Any help would be appreciated! I'm hoping to correct the hull for my next project.

As Annie noted, they do 20pks of: Coarse (10x100 + 10x180), Medium(10x240 + 10x320) or Fine (10x400 + 10x600)

BTW, Outlaw are working on a range of brushable paints.

Hi Nigel. Thanks for the review. Glad you like them. We have different size packs available, as well as the mixed pack. All available to view on the website. 😊

Great Review nige I’ve have these sanding sticks from icky sticky too they have some great stuff

I get my skinny sticks from International scale models as far as I know Lee still sells them

Ooh those are good.

Think I’ll have to try sanding Sticks at some point. Tend to stick sandpaper to lolly sticks, although I generally only build wooden ships.

Do you ever buy anything yourself.

Here in the US, I get Swizzel Stick Sanders from Stevens International in Canada. I prefer their multi-color 5 grit packs. When I need something wider and with finer grits, I use the Bandai Spirits mini sticks or their full size sticks.

Looks like pukka stuff there Nige, I use the Meng sanding pads myself but theyre getting hard to find if these are good tho i might shift over to these

Yes you came use the wet or dry, they do a 20 pack medium 240/320 10 of each, and the do fine 400/600 again 10 of each Nige

They do them in separate grits Nige

Great review thanks Nige

Yes I got them from Australia Nige

In the Navy we were tough there were two ways to do something the Navy way and the wrong way

Hi Nigel, the Lancaster is loking absolutely fantastic, I am like you, I place glue all the way along the two halves of the joint, it always good to see you guys get to the point of the build when you get the joints done, then it is on to painting, bedt regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les

You're absolutely right about Aerospace being ruined by the bean counters. Back in the day when Engineering was running things, we say real innovation. Now all we hear about is cost savings. This was one of the reasons I retired; I saw what was happening and wanted no part of it.

Hi Nigel enjoying your builds curious when is your next video in relation scharnhorst hope it is soon Regards Paul

Nigel, looking good as always

As always Nigel excellent work and great tips for model building.👏👏👍👍😃

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, a Lancaster build by Nigel.👏👏👍👍

Loving your work as always, I've just started the HK 1/48 Dambuster and rewatched the other videos in the series and it's been invaluable, thank you! :)

Superb as always, thank you!

Great videos..new to this and just about to start my build…noticed you didn’t put white stripe on U/C doors …..unless I missed it

Excellent glue up tips there. Especially the cocktail sticks! I seem to have some areas of dried Tamiya extra thin that is now a thin clear film (overdid the extra thin I would think). What do you do here? Just leave them or a fine sand over? Thanks!

Excellent progress, Nige. Great to see a Lanc in the gentleman's scale!

have you found the anchor chain? I couldn't find mine in my copy, not sure where they put it.

Don't know if your circle cutter brand has them, but DSPIAE also have a center finder for their circle cutter. May be that would help?

looking great Nigel does that mean you will have to repaint the seat on the Hachette Lancaster as i can`t` remember what colour you did it

Nice Video. A Lancaster one ... so a must!! Just the best airplane and beautuful. Have a nice Day Nigel. Greetings from Thomas from Mexico.

Loving this build.. Thanks Nigel.. Hope you're groovy.. I ordered my HK 1/48 Lanc from Antics in Bristol on my last visit to the UK February, still hasn't arrived.. They said they have to wait a long time for their deliveries from them .. Does that sound normal to you?

Hi Nige, great unboxing, enjoyed. I too was a little thrown by the RNLB so I looked it up. RNLI is Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which is the organisation whereas the RNLB is the vessel, as in Royal National Lifeboat.

amazing work as always Nigel. can't wait to see the end result.

Hi Nigel loving the build, torn between starting on the Gannet or the Dam Buster that are in my stash. I can really empathise with your comments regarding cost over quality in engineering. One of my main reasons for retiring from civil engineering was the outsourcing of design abroad. I was a specialist in a bespoke highway design package, along come the bean counters “ I’m sure our friends abroad would be able to produce the designs quicker and cheaper than us in the uk can you go and train them ? “Reluctantly I agreed to go only for my trip to be cancelled at the last minute as they had found someone locally to do the training,you guessed it CHEAPER ! To cut a long story short a number of design packages were sent away and when the “completed “ designs were returned they were absolute garbage and had to be redesigned in the uk.

Stunning work Nigel. I learn so many techniques from watching your builds.

Hi, is it worthwhile identifying mirror image parts e.g. doors etc?

Looking great so far, happy that you’re beginning to find a sense of normalcy in life.

Hope you have more joy with the replacement, as I have mentioned they wanted to charge me for the spru with missing parts , so my unit dose not have any small lights , oh and I have never purchased anything from the company since on principle as there are better companies with far better customer service!

The extra work paid off and the fit is looking really good.

Hi Yep go out of sequence and fit the nose as soon as you can. It’s not a bad fit but it’s not as perfect as the rest of the kit it needs a little tweak to get it right so you can’t drop it in last moment.

You might have to be careful when built , if it slides of the table , it might weil run you over . Looking very nice and the painting improves it 100% . M