Aug 31, 2022 · As I’ve said I’m a grand slam nut who knows nothing…… I think the very pail paint finish was simply very sun bleached / weathered version of the official Dk Earth / Green cammo of 1942 on wards.

Apr 25, 2020 · Photos of YZ-T in standard night bomber scheme on pages 259 and 262 of Ward's Dambuster, photos of YZ-B in day bomber colours on p.264 of Ward's Dambuster and p.102 of Lancaster At War 2. Textual evidence from a range of sources correlates those codes to PD113 and PD114 respectively.

Jul 21, 2019 · Certainly some Grand Slam (GS) aircraft were in standard camouflage (eg PD112 YZ-S which dropped the first GS in anger) but later aircraft (as far as my rummaging through references has shown, from PD114 onward) were in the day scheme.

May 19, 2009 · The Lancater version that carried the grand slam bomb is to be painted medium sea gray and RAF green, I have that plane but have yet to build it. I’m talking of rattle cans by the way as I do not own an airbrush.

The only Lancasters that apparently had a Light Earth/Light green scheme were the LancasterB.1 Specials used to carry and drop Tallboy and Grand Slam bombs by 617 Sqn, during daylight missions: there's some discussion of them here on Britmodeller.

Given the Avro modification number 1693, the Lancaster B.I (Special) was designed to carry both Grand Slam and Tallboy bombs. In addition to a single prototype conversion, 32 production examples were built of which PB995 was the first, all being completed with Merlin 24s and A5/159 paddle blade propellers. The aircraft

Oct 28, 2006 · The "Grand Slam" aircraft needed to be readily identifiable, since it was the job of the Tallboy-armed a/c (which still had their full complement of guns,) to provide cover for the Grand Slam Lancasters, in the event of fighter attack.

The Grand Slam version of the Lancaster B.I featured faired over forward and upper turret positions, and an open bomb bay to accommodate the huge 10 ton (22,000lb) "earthquake bomb". The Grand Slam bomb was developed to destroy fortified structures that were otherwise impervious to aerial bombing.

May 17, 2023 · A Lancaster might carry hundreds of incendiaries, and some specially adapted aircraft could carry the 22,000 pound, ten ton “Grand Slam” bomb designed by Barnes Wallis. What an enormous bomb bay…. The aircraft’s immense power came from four magicians, well, four Merlin engines to be more precise…

Feb 14, 2017 · Googling "617 grand slam Lancaster" might be helpful! Briefly, 617 was the only squadron to carry the bomb on operations. The Lancasters adapted to carry it carried "YZ" squadron codes and most were in light eart / light green / LAG colours, as per your Cogi model.