Lancaster B Mk I #3 / Jinx /

Since the very beginning, assembly of Phantom of Ruhr Lancaster was long and painstaking. Not that  I had great problems while building it, but certain occurrences made me scrap it. It is the first build that I stopped almost at the final stage, for my own sake (and my fingers!). Score for this fight is 3:0 (0 for me). First time (1 point) I was wounded when cutting rear hatch out, piece of my pinkie was separated from the rest (still really miss it).  Second wound (2 points) was received during act of not entirely rage, no, it must have been something else - common sense maybe?, 3rd point is for the whole thing - after all it is me who could not stand it anymore, even after putting it away for awhile. 3 turned out to be the charm.

At first, despite pieces falling off (not because of lack of glue - or should I say SUPER GLUE which I used exclusively, there was enough of it to glue myself to the ceiling - navigator's table got lost somehow after fuselage halves were glued together, piece of canopy was damaged just after whole fuselage painting, piece of clear plastic pretending to be escape exit got separated as well, with no possibilities for re-assembly, landing gear was could not be fitted problerly what was a trigger point for whatever followed) I tried to carry on as I don't like leaving unfinished projects, but the more I built, the more strange things were happening (what is the reason for subtitle of this post). It was entirely NOT enjoyable project for me, which defeated me in the end...

It ended up smashed on the floor with bits of plastic flying in all directions, with my Better Half looking at the situation with astonishment (sometimes there is no other way to get rid of that little troll making everything so daunting!). At the moment I feel somehow relieved it's over...  I will remember this lesson and not to try any other Lancaster models in nearest future! Have to admit though, Dambuster Lancaster from Airfix looks very nice, with crisp & sharp detail...Maybe one day, I will approach it again for a re-match. Maybe better not.