This is a beautiful model Geoff, worthy of your name the detail guy. I'd love to see it in half light to show up the interior detail in your ramp scenario. The props spin in reverse to the pitch of the blades, but that hardly matters once they have spun up. You should be proud of your accomplishment. Cheers from an Aussie.

Excellent build Geoff. The lighting and prop start up is fantastic.

As a modeller this is looking amazing as a car enthusiast that likes american mopars your last name is cool

MAMMA MIA!!! I'm keeping watching and what is coming out is stunning! the "Stressed-irregular" skin effect is very visible, the realism is really at a high level! I think the next frontier of model kits brands will be producing models with this "stressed-irregular" skin effect and correct riveting! I keep watching with great interest!

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Great job Sir! IMPRESSIVE!!! Great expertise shown here! You make it seem an easy built! You are slowly pushing me to buy one of these monsters! I like a lot your method of using Mr Surfacer and then just smooth it down with Mr Thinner but wouldn't be perhaps easier to use water based putty and then simply water to smooth it down? Anyway, I am just impressed by your work...museum quality!! Greetings from Italy!

Great job mate !

I've seen a good few excellent made Lancaster's just like this one is 😍 But all neglect to sort out the unpainted grey plastic part behind the window, on the inside of the fuselage on a real early Lanc' is a shelf which runs below the small oval window, next to the Nav's map light, on that shelf is an electrical device which is called......'Air milage indicator unit',  the back of this device can be seen through the window on a real Lanc', the unit is there on the kit part but it needs cutting off and the back blanked off, all painted in black, a small shelf needs to be made and attached to the inside of the fuselage, then the unit mounted to the shelf, the grey bit i'm taking about is seen at 12:18.

Greet job👍🤩

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Beautiful  sir! Did you hide the motors of scale model magic inside the engines or are they further back inside the wings?

Just as an interesting aside, British aircraft engaged on sorties rather than missions which I think is an American term. No criticism, just an interesting fact.

sorry to be critical because it's a beautiful airplane to be sure. But did you note the props were turning backwards? They were pushing air forward, not to the rear. Perhaps it is just a trick of the camera.

Why are the props going in reverse ?

Prop  rotation is backward, have you got the power supply wired up backwards? Merlins always rotate to the right