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Combat Warplanes / Re: Postcards from Florennes airbase, Belgium
« on: June 02, 2021, 06:00:47 PM »
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Warplane Art / Re: Vickers Valiant
« on: May 31, 2021, 12:07:26 PM »
Here is first two color profile. First one served at Boscombe Down as test plane, note it have blunt tail cone. Second one is from No. 232 Operational Conversion Unit, March 1956.
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Warplane Art / Re: Vickers Valiant
« on: May 29, 2021, 04:36:43 PM »
Good point, they will be on sample with air intake equipment
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Warplane Art / Re: Vickers Valiant
« on: May 29, 2021, 01:02:42 PM »
National insignia in place as well high speed silver paint 
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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Messerschmitt BF 109Z (RetroWings 1/72)
« on: May 28, 2021, 08:00:04 PM »
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Warplane Art / Re: Vickers Valiant
« on: May 28, 2021, 12:49:10 PM »
Shadows completed, next to do will be various service markings and national insignia
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Combat Warplanes / Sopwith Cuckoo
« on: May 27, 2021, 03:04:00 PM »
The first torpedo bomber of the Royal Naval Aviation Service — Sopwith Cuckoo - could not carry a 645-kg Mark VIII torpedo, which did not allow it to be used against large ships. Therefore, the British Admiralty in 1917 issued a specification for a new torpedo bomber. One of the contestants was Short Brothers with the N. 1B Shirl project.
The Shirl was a single-seat biplane with folding wings and non-retractable landing gear. The main material is wood, the covering is canvas and plywood. It was equipped with a Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engine (385 hp) with a maximum speed of 150 km / h, and enough fuel for 6.5 hours of flight. Armament — 645-kg Mark VIII torpedo.
We built 3 prototypes of the N. 1B Shirl. Tests have shown that the aircraft is noticeably inferior to the Blackburn Blackburd. The military abandoned the project. It was planned to use Shirl for airmail transportation, but no one was interested in the offer.
The Shirl was a single-seat biplane with folding wings and non-retractable landing gear. The main material is wood, the covering is canvas and plywood. It was equipped with a Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engine (385 hp) with a maximum speed of 150 km / h, and enough fuel for 6.5 hours of flight. Armament — 645-kg Mark VIII torpedo.
We built 3 prototypes of the N. 1B Shirl. Tests have shown that the aircraft is noticeably inferior to the Blackburn Blackburd. The military abandoned the project. It was planned to use Shirl for airmail transportation, but no one was interested in the offer.
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Warplane Art / Re: Vickers Valiant
« on: May 26, 2021, 02:02:50 PM »
Today I add glass as well various panels. Time for shadows
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Warplane Art / Vickers Valiant
« on: May 24, 2021, 05:35:47 PM »
The very start of the color profile layout!!!
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Combat Warplanes / Re: Valiant
« on: May 20, 2021, 04:00:17 PM »
I miss em in my art portfolio so will start to correct this gap!!!
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Combat Warplanes / Valiant
« on: May 18, 2021, 02:34:07 PM »
In 1946, the British Air Ministry issued the B. 35/46 specification for the development of a strategic bomber. It was supposed to be a four-engine jet capable of carrying conventional and nuclear bombs. Vickers-Armstrongs participated in the competition with its Valiant project.
It was a high-wing swept-wing aircraft equipped with 4 × Rolls-Royce Avon RA28 Mk 204 engines with a thrust of 44 kN. Maximum speed-912 km / h, flight range-7200 km with additional tanks. It could carry up to 9,000 kg of bomb load. Defensive weapons were not put up.
The Valiant was the first of the so-called V-bombers, which also include the Handley Page Victor and Avro Vulcan. They were the backbone of the British nuclear deterrent program. Released 107 units of Vickers Valiant, which were in service with the Royal Air Force until 1965 (including as refueling aircraft)
P.S. if I remember good, as young I watch movie with James Bond and some scenery was done with Valiant at background
It was a high-wing swept-wing aircraft equipped with 4 × Rolls-Royce Avon RA28 Mk 204 engines with a thrust of 44 kN. Maximum speed-912 km / h, flight range-7200 km with additional tanks. It could carry up to 9,000 kg of bomb load. Defensive weapons were not put up.
The Valiant was the first of the so-called V-bombers, which also include the Handley Page Victor and Avro Vulcan. They were the backbone of the British nuclear deterrent program. Released 107 units of Vickers Valiant, which were in service with the Royal Air Force until 1965 (including as refueling aircraft)
P.S. if I remember good, as young I watch movie with James Bond and some scenery was done with Valiant at background