Hrubisko Workbench

[diamant]

Hi

I have been working a bit more on this serie and so far I have selected the following 27 Lysanders. I believe that the final number will be around 30 of them.

Serial Mk Code letter Sqdn Place Date
K6127 Prot --- ---
L4729 Mk I --- 16 Old Sarum may-38
R1992 Mk I --- --- Western Desert 1940
--- Mk I KJ-L 16 (AC) Old Sarum, Wiltshire Autum 1938
L4719 Mk I --- 208 Middle East 1939
L4673 Mk I --- --- June 1940
??? Mk I --- --- used to test air brakes
K6127 Mk I --- --- Yeovil 27/071941 a 1944
P1698 Mk II --- --- Feilton Pre War
P9105 Mk II --- --- 1941
K6127 Mk II --- ---
P9191 Mk II --- 12 Anti Malarial Control Unit Corsica 1944
459 Mk II --- --- Rockliffe, Ontario March 1942
L4798 Mk II HB/X 239 1940
V9576 Mk III AR/N 309 (Polish) Ipswich December 6 1941
T1771 Mk III --- --- A&AEE June 1941
T1508 Mk III --- --- Issoudun ene-42
V9367 Mk III MA/B 161 Tempsford 1942
--- Mk III JR/P 161
V9289 Mk III 357 Mingaladon, Burma February 1945
V9287 Mk III --- 161 Tempsford 1942
1557 Mk III --- --- Patricia Bay 1944
T1445 Mk III K-W6-K 755 NAS Worthy Down 1941-1942
V9905 Mk III --- --- Yeovil 1941
V9547 Mk III BA/E 277 South East England 1942
478 Mk II --- No 5 Coastal Artillery Cooperation (CAC) Detachment, stationed at Torbay St. John's harbour July 10, 1942


and here is the progress made by my father on the firt Lysander of the batch.





Kind regards
Santiago

[JamesPerrin]

Which kits are you using? I know of three Airfix, Matchbox and Octopus/Pavla

[diamant]

Hi James

The cheeper as always.
We are using the Airfix kits as a base and then performing al the necessary changes depending on each version / aircrafts.

Kind regards
Santiago

[Old_Tonto]

That's an interesting collection of Lizzies you are building Santiago. Do you make your own decals?

[diamant]

Hi Old tonto

A friend of us make the very "rare" decals for us, like nose arts, etc but we try to use the ones we have in our spare decals folders. My father has two big folders with lots of decals and he has always been able to find the ones he need or "cut" and "paste" some of them in order to get what we need.

Cheers
Santiago

[diamant]

Hi guy

This is just a quick update showing the progress on the first Lysander





Cheers
Santiago

[kruaxi]

Your factory is ever on !

[skypirate]

Which kits are you using? I know of three Airfix, Matchbox and Octopus/Pavla

....and FROG!

Off to a fine start!

cheers,

David

[Martin R]

Santiago,

As ever, I am amazed at the speed and quality of the builds you and your father undertake. Your father appears to have replaced / modified the cowling & engine of the old Airfix kit(s). Is this correct and, if so, could he give any details on what he's done?

(When I built the Airfix Lizzie, I just replaced engine and cowling with a resin / white metal version from Aeroclub).

regards,

Martin

[diamant]

Many thanks guys.

Your father appears to have replaced / modified the cowling & engine of the old Airfix kit(s). Is this correct and, if so, could he give any details on what he's done?

Yes, He use one of the Airfix cowling as master, (after improving a bit ) and the clone 3 pieces. Then he modified each one in order to obtain a correct cowling for each version. (I, II, III). For example, he will do the same for the RCAF cowling which are different from the British ones.

I have a question. Do you know the color of the "front" part of the cowling?

Many thanks in advance

Kind regards
Santiago

[Narayan]

Nice start on the Lysander project Santiago.

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[Martin R]

I have a question. Do you know the color of the "front" part of the cowling?

Many thanks in advance

Kind regards
Santiago

Santiago,

Do you mean the exhaust collector ring at the very front of the cowling? If so, I've seen a number of different interpretations. The all-black (Shuttleworth?) Lizzie looks as if its a steel colour, but I believe that these parts discoloured over time due to the hot exhaust gasses inside. I generally paint them a metallic steel colour, then dry-brush red-brown as below. However, I don't know how accurate this is - but I'm sure someone on-site will know!





regards,

Martin

[malepo]

it's always stunning to see you stuff!

[Chuck E]

I have a question. Do you know the color of the "front" part of the cowling?

Yep, it's this colour Santiago. This has not had many hours to weather and discolour as it is a rebuild, but it starts out natural metal and eventually discolours with the high exhaust temperature to a more bronze colour. I mix Humbrol 56 with Humbrol Antique Bronze about 60% to 40%. After it dries, I burnish it with a cloth and you get a nice metallic effect. The colours can vary with the applied heat from pale straw through bronze to deep blue where it has got really hot. I would think that the collector ring would be wiped with some presevative to stop it rusting when not in use. Martin has it about right by drybrushing over steel.

Some more nice work there Santiago. You and your Father are building up another wonderful collection.

[diamant]

Hi guys

Many thanks for your replies.

Thank Martin for your comments. Your Lysander looks really good. Is it 1/72 scale?.
We will do one Lysander in SEAC markings this for sure.

Hi Chuck E. Many thanks for the photos and explanation about the color of the collector ring. I know now how to paint it.

Here are a couple of photos showing the advance made by my father on the first 4 Lysanders







I have read that a couple of Lysander were use to tug Hotspur but so far I have not found any photo.

Kind regards
Santiago