How I made the Manchester in 1/32 – well…
The fuselage is pretty much the HK Models built as a Lancaster ( I’m doing a Mk1A which is the later twin tail version and not the original tri-tail ) which is covered in other posts where I did the Lancasters and Lincoln previously.

What follows is a series of pics showing the journey – I’ll edit the post later with more detail.

The model calls for new wings which was the major part of the conversion so after mimicking the wing roots digitally I built up some wings as you see above.

The vulture engines were done some time ago being the first actual digital parts of the model.

Here’s how I paint the wing and mark out the panels.

Speeding forward we settled on a scheme – I chose this one:

17th April 1942: The aircrew of Avro Manchester B MkIa R5833 OL-N twin engine heavy bomber of No 83 Squadron, Royal Air Force Bomber Command pose beside their aircraft on 17th April 1942 at RAF Scampton in Scampton, Lincolnshire. On the nose of the aircraft is the Welsh inscription “ar hyd y nos” which translated means “all through the night”, indicative of the bombers night bombing role. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

I also had to scratch build a Fraser Nash turret so after finding some drawings I whipped this up.

Then it all came together:

and then it was time to display at ModelExpo and NAM.

Here it is in company with a few other 1/32 kits of mine.