Airfix Avro Lancaster B.III (Special) The Dambusters 1:72 (A09007A)

Few Airfix boxes carry more weight than this one. It is the Lancaster modified for the 1943 dams raid, with the bomb bay doors removed to carry Barnes Wallis's bouncing bomb, and the two schemes are the aircraft flown on the night of 16/17 May by Guy Gibson and by Les Munro of No. 617 Squadron. The tooling dates from the early 2010s, so this is a modern kit rather than a reissue, but 267 parts and a 432 mm wingspan still make it a Skill Level 3 project that needs space and a free fortnight. The slab-sided fuselage and big glazed turrets reward careful masking, and the bomb itself makes the finished model instantly recognisable.