RE: The best Looking Lancaster around???
I don’t know about ‘best looking’, but it’s certainly a nice photo of a great looking Lanc! NX611 has a lovely air of ‘wartime’ about her appearance, and if they could only sort out her mid-upper turret then she’d be damn near perfect in that respect.
PA474 has improved greatly over recent years, the move to satin paint having helped things tremendously, and her current ‘Micky The Moocher’ is a nice scheme, too. Still looks like a showpiece rather than a wartime machine, though!
Duxford’s Lanc looks completely bland and uninteresting to me-however nice a restoration job it is, it still remains singularly characterless, even for a beloved Lanc!
Hendon’s ‘Sugar’ should come off display for a while and have a few months work done on her, rather than a patch here and a patch there as they’re currently doing-she’s now got mis-matched areas of black paint on her, and last time I saw her there was a bare patch of skin on a bomb door, so I assume that will be another non-matching area of paint by now. If she’s suffering from patches of corrosion, all the more reason to strip her down again and give her a good going over-a proper, all over treatment before a full repaint-she’s been on display for nearly 30 years now after all! Most consider her to be a ‘star’ attraction at Hendon, and she should be treated as such.
The IWM London nose section is fun; nicely original looking, inside and out, though I have no idea how much of that is wartime or not!? We never did find out what happened to the rest of that one, did we?
And lastly, as it’s a close relation, I’ll say that Cosford’s Lincoln is looking pretty tasty these days, too!
Mike
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