RAF Boeing B-29 1944 /1945

[comrade harps]

A quick first draft ....excuse the basic skills! 

I do like that, though 

[Knightflyer]

Good Morning Gents 

Thanks for all the suggestions, and I agree with the logic of the night undersides with either grey, white or grey/green. I suppose my weak argument is that because that what WAS used on the heavy bombers (and yes the canberras and mosquitos) that is precisely why I want to go with a different scheme. Anyway the fuselage is not closed up yet or the wings attached to it, so still some thinking time to go! 

Anyway, second draft drawing, colours the right way up, and a slightly more realistic roundel!



and a rough approximation of the Cranberry Scheme

[chrisonord]

I quite like  the second one,  very striking  colour scheme.  The one above  is a very similar version of what I  have painted my Super freighter,  which  is in Honduras navy  service. 
Chris

[Pellson]

..and a rough approximation of the Cranberry Scheme

I like that. In general, I feel big birds should have disruptive schemes - just because they seldom do. Look at the B-52, for instance. It was way cooler in the old SAC camo than is is now, being grey and dull.

But that's just me, and if it is of any comfort, I rarely even myself take my own advice.. 

[Knightflyer]

Well some progress

I have gone from this



to this



I'm thinking the camouflage on this quite nicely leads into latter use by the Canberra and the V-Bombers. I'm looking forward to putting roundels on it 

[NARSES2]

Progress 

[ChernayaAkula]

Lookin' good! 

[Knightflyer]

Another weekend and a little more progress, still a bit drafty* (draughty) for the crew though! 
*whoops, I think I've been Americanized!

[PR19_Kit]

That's looking very convincing. 

[NARSES2]

That's looking very convincing. 

Is, isn't it ? 

[Knightflyer]

Well this project actually got finished last November - but as I was in just starting (I didn't realise it at the time) what was a four-month doldrums period of modelling and life in general I'm only just getting around to posting.

VG925 / WS-B 9 Squadron September 1945

The back story is not fully developed, but follows a failed D-Day, a stalled Eastern Front and a resurgent Luftwaffe. More accurate V-Weapons target bomber airfields (fighters can be dispersed more easily) in Southern and Eastern England making then untenable. Therefore Scottish based RAF and USAAF B-29s (Washington's to the British) continue to carry the fight to Germany.

Following the dropping of an atom bomb by the USAAF on Berlin on the 10th August 1945, a second bomb is dropped on Munich by the RAF* ('Bertie' WS-B of No. 9 Squadron) a week later. The broadcasted warnings of a third bomb (to be dropped by the USAAF again) caused the final collapse of the Nazi Regime towards the the end of August 1945

The pictures show 'Bertie' in it's immediate end-of-hostilities markings with mission markings showing it's eight missions (seven ordinary bombing runs and the culminating atom bomb mission)

*the decision to allow RAF to drop the second bomb was a political one, allowing the UK to share some of the responsibility and some of the post-war burden

[PR19_Kit]

So glad to see it finally finished, and it looks great. 

I like the backstory too, holes or not. 

[Wardukw]

Yup i like that ..i had the Monogram 48th one..that dive bombed me in the head one night 
Ill admit tho even tho this is much smaller it looks far better than mine ..many times better 

[NARSES2]

That's come out well, particularly like the colour scheme