Project Lancaster

[MAXsenna]

1 hour ago, Freakmeister51 said:

Sorry Max, the question wasn’t directed at you personally

All good!  

[Scoobyon]

6 hours ago, Freakmeister51 said:

Will the AI version be available on your discord please?

Yes, will be and will post an announcement in here and in discord

[Freakmeister51]

2 hours ago, Scoobyon said:

Yes, will be and will post an announcement in here and in discord

Thanks Scoobyon.

[BrianTheBrain]

On 9/24/2025 at 5:41 AM, Freakmeister51 said:

Sorry Max, the question wasn’t directed at you personally

Will the AI version be on your discord when you release it please.

Yes. Most likely there will be links to it both here and on discord. 

[Scoobyon]

[MAXsenna]

Lovely!

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[Tonker]

 

Nice one Scooby and Loki, great to see the AI version take her early steps in public!

[BrianTheBrain]

Ai version is out everyone! Pick it up here: https://tallboy-sims.com/

Feel free to give us bug reports here or on discord. 

[waterman]

On 10/12/2025 at 6:02 AM, BrianTheBrain said:

Ai version is out everyone! 

Feel free to give us bug reports here or on discord. 

LANCASTER BOMBER Ai Download is Live !     "AWESOME WW2 NEWS THANKYOU"                

You have made countless DCS users very very happy today  

Well done and a huge thankyou to the Lancaster Mod Developers for the massive amount of work involved   

Thankyou for sharing your Marvelous Ai Aircraft ! 

Download and do yourself a big favor Hit the F3 key.

You will have a Big Smile  as the Lancaster with those 4 Merlins roars past !

 

 

 

Edited 23 hours ago by waterman

[Slippa]

Oh you beauties! 

Well done, congrats and a massive thank you to everyone that worked on this. You’re all diamonds, tea and medals all round, Distinguished Modding Medal? 

I can’t get on DCS til later on so haven’t checked it out yet, other than watching the little vid here but I’m so chuffed to see this released. All those hours of tapping, both on your heads and your keyboards was well worth it, good on ya lads and thanks again.

Looking forward to checking it all out later on, one day we’ll fly it too, it’ll get there. AI for now has me chuffed to bits for all of us, what treat eh  

absolute blinder  

 

[Slippa]

I just plotted a load on the Channel Map. Some as statics, some rolling on take off. Mossie and Spits for an escort.

She’s gorgeous . I need more time and a better look but by what I’ve seen so far… she purdy  take a bow 

Thanks again, and again .

[Pappy2]

AMAZING work, guys !
A HUGE THANK YOU for your patience and for creating this masterpiece.

I discovered a small thing that I suspect will be fixed soon:
There's a display issue with the numbers and roundels on the fuselage on all skin versions.
The "Loki's Revenge" version is missing an upper texture.
The "Tiger Force" version's tailplane texture should be white, not brownish-green.
The observer's hole isn't round.
Screenshots are below.

Thanks again for making us dream.

NOTE: I haven't finished counting the rivets yet !

[Seaside]

Awesome work !!!

 

[Slippa]

I see the same bort issue.

EDs dodgy AI had one of the Lancs pranged on the ramp leaving it chopped in half earlier. As I rolled behind it in a Spit I got pranged by the ‘invisible’ tail end. Maybe something with the collision detection box or whatever? I see some light green textures on some that are damaged as well. As if the ground crews have fitted fresh panels to any Lancs that are pranged, eager to get em back in service.

I love it though. Hope the team have a well deserved break from it for a bit but I’m looking forward to hopping aboard one day so keep the home fires burning .

BUG REPORT: Where’s my little tractor hmmm? , just kidding, (not) 

Chuffed to bits to finally have it. 

What was the story with those chunky roundels in the end Scoobs & co?

 

[BrianTheBrain]

Thank you all for the bug reports, I will pass them on, but if you are in our discord, it'd be appreciated to post your issues in our bug channel there. I'll forward the ones here I know don't have discord. Thanks all for the support!

[Veteran66]

can`t wait for the flyable version

 

[gabuzomeu]

Regarding the liveries, there are normal and roughmet files in the  directories but strange choices (for example only the right wing)

This may just be leftovers of the default ones, I could not check

Overall, congratulations, it's very nice and I'm eager to fly the Lancaster

 

[Joe1978]

The link appears to be incorrect/broken 

[Scoobyon]

Not the best weekend to be away but hope you all enjot the release! its good to finally have something to show for all of the work that we have put into the model over the last 5 years and 3 remodels   Has anyone found the golden rivet yet?

The bort numbers are some what magical in how they work and how the middle bort is the only one not to show the background of the default texture, we dont entirely know why. The liveries having borts forced on should be a quick fix that I didnt get around to but should make the premade liveries way better to look at.

The website link is currently down but the link we were using was costing money to use so we have set it up to redirect to a Google Drive (when it comes online)
Temporary link here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MEU_4TBrNTxcPjx1Q5CViV_29QIks71m/view?usp=drive_link
@Joe1978

 

7 hours ago, gabuzomeu said:

Regarding the liveries, there are normal and roughmet files in the  directories but strange choices (for example only the right wing)

This may just be leftovers of the default ones, I could not check

Overall, congratulations, it's very nice and I'm eager to fly the Lancaster

 

The right wing is the file that I predominantly work on and the changes are mirrored onto the left wing, let me know what the issue is and I can take a look

[Scoobyon]

15 hours ago, Slippa said:

I see the same bort issue.

EDs dodgy AI had one of the Lancs pranged on the ramp leaving it chopped in half earlier. As I rolled behind it in a Spit I got pranged by the ‘invisible’ tail end. Maybe something with the collision detection box or whatever? I see some light green textures on some that are damaged as well. As if the ground crews have fitted fresh panels to any Lancs that are pranged, eager to get em back in service.

I love it though. Hope the team have a well deserved break from it for a bit but I’m looking forward to hopping aboard one day so keep the home fires burning .

BUG REPORT: Where’s my little tractor hmmm? , just kidding, (not) 

Chuffed to bits to finally have it. 

What was the story with those chunky roundels in the end Scoobs & co?

 

I completely forgot about the little tractor and the refueler I did, they arent the highest quality assets out there but I can release them aswell should you want them. Unfortunately the trailer physics in DCS dont work so getting the tractor and trailer to articulate isnt a thing even though its listed in the DCS arguments.

Whats the story about the roundels? I remeber that I put on some post war roundels on top of the wings but I believe that was fixed for all of the liveries, unless your on about something else?

The internal damage textures are a little bright but that can always be tweaked

19 hours ago, Pappy2 said:

AMAZING work, guys !
A HUGE THANK YOU for your patience and for creating this masterpiece.

I discovered a small thing that I suspect will be fixed soon:
There's a display issue with the numbers and roundels on the fuselage on all skin versions.
The "Loki's Revenge" version is missing an upper texture.
The "Tiger Force" version's tailplane texture should be white, not brownish-green.
The observer's hole isn't round.
Screenshots are below.

Thanks again for making us dream.

NOTE: I haven't finished counting the rivets yet !

Noted, Thank you for the feedback. I completely missed the astrodome not being circular

[Cdodders]

nullBombs be spinning

[Cdodders]

Also, the bomb doors don't open when dropping bombsnull

[BrianTheBrain]

33 minutes ago, Cdodders said:

Also, the bomb doors don't open when dropping bombsnull

Bomb doors not opening is known at this time, there also doesn't seem to be a way to fix it, but thats something we've been looking at.

[Mapi]

8x8 tex? wow 

4x4 is for AI ok or?

hehehe

 

[Slippa]

I thought the roundels might’ve needed adjusting, I had a quick scan through the thread but couldn’t find the page where it was discussed but it’s here. Something about the width of the red I think? No biggie.

The little tractor and bowser looked ok a while back, obviously we don’t know what work’s been done to em if any so no sweat on those. Thought they might have come as a sort of ‘Lanc Assets pack’ or something .  

Cheers again for all the work, per Avro ad Astra