• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

FCS Lancaster - Model Updates??

P

PrivateCustard

Charter Member
After spending quite a lot of time photographing PA474 (BBMF) and C-GVRA (CWHM) during this summers visit, I've noticed a lot of differences between our B.I and the Canadians B.X. The most striking of which (other than the mid-turret positioning) is the tail. It also made me look more closely at the FCS models. I've noticed that there doesn't seem to be a model with the correct tail for the BBMFs B.I, and was wondering if any model updates had been made, by FCS themselves, or by any modders in the community?


BBMF - 'Thumper'
PA474, PDA Day 2014 by Barrie_May, on Flickr

CWHM - 'Vera'
The Mynarski Lancaster by Barrie_May, on Flickr
 
DaveWG said:
The BBMF Lancaster actually has Avro Lincoln tails fitted.
Click to expand...

Actually, to correct myself, they are Lancaster tails / rudders, but only a small number of later models were fitted with them, and they were standard on the Lincoln.
 
wombat666 said:
I'm fairly certain that FCS don't actually 'do' updates.
:banghead:
Click to expand...

Indeed!

I quite liked their Hurricane package, and was going to contact them to see if they were going to fix the issues/and problems with the models, but reading other peoples posts on the subject, it seems their ears weren't particularly open!

I think you'll find that their Lancaster is actually a bit of a hybrid.

The Plane Design FS9 Lancasters had the best and most accurate visual model with the correct detail for each variant (including the later rudders for the BBMF version). It just a shame that they have been so quiet for a long time, and no news on FSX/P3D development.

Cheers

Paul
 
Bradburger said:
The Plane Design FS9 Lancasters had the best and most accurate visual model with the correct detail for each variant (including the later rudders for the BBMF version). It just a shame that they have been so quiet for a long time, and no news on FSX/P3D development.
Click to expand...

Agreed. The PD Lancaster is a more accurate external model.
 
LE151 said:
Look Here for patch 1.0 for the Lanc!

http://shop-firstclass.com/collections/planes/products/lancaster


There are also texture mods, available online, that others have done to put the flashings on the inside of the tail fins....cheers!!!! :wavey::wavey:
Click to expand...

Thanks. This addresses a host of issues but not the model inaccuracies, especially the MR's, many of which ended their days with the 'Lincoln' fins and no forward guns, plus rear-facing camera under the tail turret and a ventral 'dustbin' or a transparent/semi-transparent H2S-style radome.

1628878.jpg

DaveQ
 
slightly off topic, but something that officially confirms my status as grumpy old man!

Everywhere the contents of the FCS Lancaster is listed, and also in the aircraft cfg, and documentation as i recall, it says "Lancaster MR 3 RF325/H-D, School of Maritime Reconnaissance, RAF St. Maqgan, c.1956"

It's ST. MAWGAN, RAF ST MAWGAN, a couple of miles away from where i live!!

Appreciate that the letter Q is next to the letter W and it was probably a typo, but RF325 was the last Lancaster in RAF operational service
(it left RAF ST.MAWGAN on October 15th 1957 and was flown to RAF Wroughton where it was scrapped)
And in my opinion should be listed correctly
Apologies for the rant.
 
Last edited:
DaveQ said:
Thanks. This addresses a host of issues but not the model inaccuracies, especially the MR's, many of which ended their days with the 'Lincoln' fins and no forward guns, plus rear-facing camera under the tail turret and a ventral 'dustbin' or a transparent/semi-transparent H2S-style radome.

View attachment 12510

DaveQ
Click to expand...
Same dustbin as the Shackleton had?
 
ijay said:


It's ST. MAWGAN, RAF ST MAWGAN, a couple of miles away from where i live!!
Click to expand...

It takes a lad who grew up in Camborne to appreciate this comment! One of my personal bug bears was when BBC Spotlight constantly messed up the news saying "771 Sqn Helicopters flying from 'RAF' Culdrose went to the rescue....." lol

Ok back on topic chaps :)

Ps fantastic Lanc photos at the start of this thread :)
 
zswobbie1 said:
Same dustbin as the Shackleton had?
Click to expand...

The FCS 10MR model correctly has the Canadian 'dustbin', though oblong in section not round. Not sure Coastal Command ever used a similar device; they were equipped with H2S radar in a transparent Plexiglass housing. None had armament in the turrets.

DaveQ
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top