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Wellington Mk.IC R1410 saw service with 311 Squadron as KX-M. She was damaged during a raid to Hannover on 15/05/41. The port engine caught fire at 14,000 feet, this was extinguished, and she was flown back to England on one engine. At 0600 hours a belly landing was made 11 miles south of Manningtree. The starboard engine cut out on touch down as the fuel supply was exhausted. The captain was Flt/Lt Josef Snajdr. The aircraft was later recovered and eventually transferred to No. 12 Operational Training Unit. It is likely that the squadron codes were overpainted shortly after arrival at Chipping Norton, though no record exists of the codes displayed while with 12 OTU, whose codes were FQ, JP and ML. On 25-06-42 R1410 crashed in Holland having flown from Chipping Warden.
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Entirely brush painted using Humbrol and Vallejo acrylics. Straight from the box except the addition of crew members.

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Lovely build.

 

I did some work at the old Chipping Warden airfield last year. Still plenty of wartime buildings in use so very easy to imagine R1410 waddling across the site for the last time.

 

Edge

 

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8 hours ago, dogsbody said:

Wow! Nicely done. Where did you find that 3-wheeled fueler? Is that large bomb on the trolley going to another aircraft? An 8,000 pounder would never fit into a Welly.

 

 

 

Chris

Having built the Flightpath one the Oxford one is more accurate and cheaper !

https://www.oxforddiecast.co.uk/products/thompson-refueller-raf-76trf003

 

 

Great dio Ratch :) 

 

 

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Thanks very much guys :thanks:

@TonkaGuy I have lots of brushes, none of them were expensive, I just use the appropriate size for the job in hand. Sorry I can't be more specific, but having been painting for 50+ years, experience just leads you to the brush to use. I take no notice of 'size' of brush and I don't spend too much on brushes either. Sometimes I use the hairy sticks and other times I'll use an airbrush - horses for courses. This time I couldn't be bothered with all the potential masking.

@Edge I've not been to Chipping Warden airfield with the T4 hangars and taxi-ways for a few years now, must make another visit.

@TEXANTOMCAT nice 😎the Oxford version wasn't around when I got the Flightpath one :whistle:

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