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  • in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1249340
    Bluebird Mike
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    Indeed, we’ve been VERY privelleged indeed I feel to have seen all that we have, so we’ve got to let all those good lads save SOMETHING for the official unveiling! 🙂

    in reply to: BBMF 2007 Brochure #1251164
    Bluebird Mike
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    You could join the Lincs Lanc Association and get one sent to you each year, or contact the BBMF directly, or happen to be at an airshow where they are being given out.

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1252133
    Bluebird Mike
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    Fascinating stuff- thanks for taking the time to write that.

    Me, I just soak the decals in some warm water for a couple of minutes! :rolleyes: 😀

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1252149
    Bluebird Mike
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    Thanks to Fluffy also, for the wonderful shot of the markings in progress. Really you guys, you’re making a Lancaster enthusiast- and one who’s very enthusiastic indeed about your particular Lancaster- very happy indeed.

    I’d like to ask you about something that’s always baffled my possibly simple brain; what’s the process for spraying roundels? Is it something like spray a coolur, mask it, spray the next colour etc? As it beats me how it’s done with such tidy, perfectly circular accuracy and all that! :confused:

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1252185
    Bluebird Mike
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    Peter, it was a satin finish that they brought in last time she saw a paintgun, and in my humble enthusiast’s opinion she looked the best she ever has for it; looks like the same thing has been done again?

    in reply to: BBMF 2007 Brochure #1252206
    Bluebird Mike
    Participant

    Looked up and duly appreciated. Well done! 🙂

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1252208
    Bluebird Mike
    Participant

    *Grins like a totally demented (but very happy) Lanc-nutter* 😀 😀 😀

    in reply to: BBMF 2007 Brochure #1252465
    Bluebird Mike
    Participant

    Oh, which one?

    in reply to: Falklands 25th Flypast #1252509
    Bluebird Mike
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    On the subject of the Vulcan, I note that it’s down as a ‘TBC’ on the online Yeovilton Air Day participants list, for 7th July; if they miss the Falklands date, I wonder if they’ll make some later dates this year?

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1253588
    Bluebird Mike
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    A brief glimps in primer.

    Tease! 😀

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1257838
    Bluebird Mike
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    Great to see her back on the ground; I hope the painting goes well, and that we might still get the odd glimpse of proceedings before the big unveiling!

    in reply to: PA474 Last view before paint #1259860
    Bluebird Mike
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    A further wonderful treat of photos, we’ve been very privelleged to see these I think. 🙂

    I thought it would all go incommunicado once the paint guns came out- don’t want to spoil the thunder before any official photos/unveiling, I guess?!

    in reply to: Nice cutaway of Lanc of PA474! #1260406
    Bluebird Mike
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    Blimey, they’re doing more re-skinning work on her at Coventry than I thought!

    Oh hang on, wrong thread…

    😀

    in reply to: Hurricane R4118 website launched #1262017
    Bluebird Mike
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    It’s a gorgeous looking, well-built website, much like the aircraft it’s about! I’d like to see a lot more pictures of the restoration process though- something I felt was also quite lacking from the book, too. (It was all India and little in the way of nuts and bolts, I thought!)

    When an aircraft is rebuilt so well, so exactly as was R4118, you really want to see more of that process, you know?

    in reply to: In the paintshop #1264498
    Bluebird Mike
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    Fluffy mate, that looks absolutely quacking! 😉

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