Coastal Command Wellyboots

[Wez]

'Ullo,

First posting here - be kind.

Got the Trumpy Wellington IC and wanna do it as a CC aircraft with the stickleback radar as per the option on the Xtradecal sheet.

I'm particularly looking for pictures of the radar antenna - they ain't flat as per photo-etched items so I was wondering about scratch building them only, I need some close in photo's to show me what they look like, especially the nose yagi arial which looks as though it's plonked square in the middle of the bomb aimer's transparency (only it can't be 'cos it won't have the structural integrity to support it).

Does anybody have such enlightening material?

Also, what exhausts are applicable to a CC Wellington?

All the best! Arr!

Wez

[Edgar]

There's a photo, of a wing aerial, on a Mk.VIII, in "Wellington Special," and all aerials, and supports, look to be round, with the supports about 3 times the size of the aerials. According to an illustration, in the same book, the bomb-aimer's transparency appears to have been replaced by a "hatch" or (more likely) a solid panel, and the aerial is offset, to the starboard side, probably so that it was attached to a main longeron. The illustration shows the VIII with white undersides, and extended exhausts, with "hedgehog" ends, a la Beaufighter.

Edgar

Edited July 18, 2008 by Edgar

[Wez]

There's a photo, of a wing aerial, on a Mk.VIII, in "Wellington Special," and all aerials, and supports, look to be round, with the supports about 3 times the size of the aerials. According to an illustration, in the same book, the bomb-aimer's transparency appears to have been replaced by a "hatch" or (more likely) a solid panel, and the aerial is offset, to the starboard side, probably so that it was attached to a main longeron. The illustration shows the VIII with white undersides, and extended exhausts, with "hedgehog" ends, a la Beaufighter.

Edgar

Thanks Edgar,

I'll try and look that up, I'm sure I'd read somewhere that the struts were airfoil shaped and the antenna dipoles were oval but that was a long time ago and a picture tells a far better story. Thanks for the heads up.

Best Regards

Wez