Avro Manchester

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as L7486, an Avro Manchester Mk IA of No. 207 Squadron at RAF Waddington, Lincolnshire, in 1941: the Lancaster’s twin-engined parent, a mid-wing bomber with two 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce Vulture engines in long nacelles, the enlarged twin fins and rudders of the Mk IA with no central fin, a glazed nose with an FN5 turret, an FN7 mid-upper turret, an FN4A tail turret and the long bomb bay the Lancaster inherited, shown tail down on its wheels: Dark Earth and Dark Green above, black under-surfaces, fins and rudders, with the black carried high up the fuselage sides, a yellow-ringed roundel on each side of the fuselage, red and blue roundels on the upper wings, red, white and blue flashes on the fins, the serial ‘L7486’ aft of the fuselage roundel and black propellers with yellow tips, as photographed on an air test shortly after delivery, before any squadron codes were applied (no Manchester survives; the shape was taken from two published three-views cross-checked against photographs, and the fuselage shared with the Lancaster; only the port side of L7486 is photographed, so the starboard side follows it, and the small stencils are left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 292 models · download .glb (1.3 MB) · Plate 125 in The Hangar