What a bunch of busy bunnies you lot are!

[Pat Pattle]

A glorious sight to behold Steve! Another masterpiece in the works.

 

[josepicos]

View attachment 70014...............................................................................................................These Blenheims need some upgrades!


Pilots seem to get fried while flying my Blenheims. ._.View attachment 70015

 

[hairyspin]

Plodding along

Mapping the VC: fiddle, fiddle, fiddle. I now know why Steve talked of mapping as he built the various bits.

View attachment 70049

 

[gecko]

Great work Steve! I've been looking forward to this one since before MAW was released, glad to see it coming together.

Tom, is that your Tempest pit? Looks good! Do you know if it will be able to replace our Tempest V pit? I assume there wouldn't be a huge difference between the II and the V.

 

[hairyspin]

Well, there are some differences since the Tempest II is air-cooled and the V liquid-cooled, plus the V had slightly earlier instrumentation and an ordinary gunsight instead of the II's gyro sight (later models). But I haven't tried the VC in a Tempest V, might be an idea..!

 

[gecko]

Good point in the cooling, I thought it had the newer gunsight though.

 

[sdsbolt]

that's some good mapping there Tom :salute:

 

[sdsbolt]

Added a couple of brownings to the dorsal turret

Plodding along at a slowed pace. Real life has gotten much busier :isadizzy:

 

[HouseHobbit]

I like Maw-duce (M2) Brownings!!
This looks Great!

I can't wait to give her a Good flight(wrecking)..
Many Thanks..

 

[sdsbolt]

I like Maw-duce (M2) Brownings!!
This looks Great!

weeeellllllll....they're 303's

 

[gecko]

Looking good! Those gunner's stations are always a nice treat. On the question of turrets, was the ventral gun under the nose on the MkIV a turret as well, or remotely operated? Can't imagine how it could have been operated directly, but this would be kind of early for remotely operated guns too?

 

[Led Zeppelin]

Thanks for the update!

 

[sdsbolt]

On the question of turrets, was the ventral gun under the nose on the MkIV a turret as well, or remotely operated?

it was directly operated with a periscope and a handle. pretty hard to operate and often left off the aircraft since Blenheims were mostly used on low level attacks.