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Wellington
« on: July 27, 2009, 04:14:08 PM »
New bomber project...  :-wave
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2009, 09:16:04 PM »
Quote from: No.1 on July 27, 2009, 04:14:08 PM
New bomber project...  :-wave

No.1 Which Mark are you doing?

A word of caution on Wellingtons, be careful with the side windows on the fuselage, some had no windows, others had a parallelogram type of shape. I've seen different window configurations on the same production version, it can get confusing. Archival sources for the squadron you are painting it is is critical.
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2009, 09:55:24 PM »
This is true, very compex machine so I will focus on Ib and Ic versions. Also I miss many close up images and I can not precisely find where is all panels...
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #3 on: July 27, 2009, 10:22:15 PM »
Wellington fuselage was a so-called geodetic aluminium construction covered with fabric.
That means it had very little panels! Design was from mr. Barnes-Wallis (inventor of Dam-buster boms)
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #4 on: July 27, 2009, 10:26:44 PM »
This is correct but it have some panels near engines and at the top of fuselage. It look like that on images...
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #5 on: July 28, 2009, 09:13:42 AM »
This is not an easy work but this progress somehow  :-think
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #6 on: July 28, 2009, 04:58:16 PM »
Now it look almost like airplane  :-smey
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #7 on: July 28, 2009, 08:46:08 PM »
I work on turrets right now  :-razz
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2009, 10:24:13 AM »
First profile coming soon  :-wave
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2009, 11:59:16 AM »
First profile  :-tri
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2009, 03:42:52 PM »
Two more machines ;)
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2009, 06:31:04 PM »
And this is final two- in total five profiles in a day  :-tri
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2009, 06:53:16 PM »
Great set of profiles No.1 as always.

Did you know that the Wellington IC was used for night photographic reconnaissance? Two were part of 'B' Flight No.3 Photohraphic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU) formed at RAF Oakington in November 1940.
This PRU had a very short life  - Nov 1940 until Jul 1941 and they undertook there reconnaissance for Bomber Command and their function was "to obtain photographs of bombing targets at a scale suitable for assessment of damage". What we would call now Bomb Damage Assessment (BDA).

The first Wellingtons were:-
T2706 which failed to return from ops in 16 Apr 1941
T2707 Which forced landed at Binsey 17 Mat 1941

They were replaced by R1523 & X3171
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2009, 07:06:06 PM »
I did not know for this :) Do you have any image? Did they wear PRU scheme?
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Re: Wellington
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2009, 07:30:08 PM »
I only have this one for the time being, I will do some more research.
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