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A few years ago I built a 60" span Avro Lincoln from depron, and very good it looked too. The white scheme with black under-surfaces was easy to paint and (I think) very attractive. Steve 85 on RC Groups was making his 48" span Lancaster at the time and generously sent me a cockpit canopy to complete the model. I got all the details I needed from the November 2008 edition of Aeroplane magazine.
The Lincoln was designed by Roy Chadwick and his team in response to the Air Staff's requirement for a heavy bomber with longer range than the existing ones, to prepare for the war in the Far East. The Lancaster, with its huge bomb bay, was the obvious choice for development and only a few changes were necessary: longer wing tips with only 2 degrees dihedral, a fuselage extension behind the wing, a large greenhouse on the nose, heavier armament and of course the annular radiators for the Merlin engines. There is an utterly fascinating analysis of the Lancaster and its developments here which I strongly recommend to anyone with the slightest interest in the subject.
Ivan's Lancaster plan is for 100" span at 1/12th scale, so the Lincoln fits neatly into 120" and I had all the scale sections and component shapes from the depron version and they just needed doubling in size *rolls eyes. Progress so far...
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