Wolf in Wolf's Clothing by BeyondVR
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The He 111 was ostensibly designed as a high-speed airliner, and was refered to as a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, its development starting when Germany was still outwardly honoring the Versailles treaty. It was a versatile aircraft, being used for bombing, transport and glider towing, and was Germany's most numerous medium bomber. Models of the H series, pictured here, were by far the most numerous. Because of projected demand for the Daimler-Benz DB 601 engines, Heinkel went with the slightly larger and heavier Jumo 211. A common full load was 8 SC250 bombs (250kg/550lb.), which were stowed vertically, nose up. It could carry an equivalent weight of smaller bombs, and variants could carry a single, larger bomb such as the 2500kg Max, a torpedo, or glide bombs such as the Hs 293. Various loads could be carried externally on racks, but these blocked the bomb bay doors negating a combination of external/internal capability. Model by Touchwood. He includes a layered PSD file that makes alternate textures easy to create. Poser 6/Vue 8
Comments (9)
722
Great work
ragouc
Good WWII scene.
BikerGraphicArtist
Great Job!
perilous7
Excellent render :-)
JoeDoe
Nice work. However one oversight...the bombs never fall tail first. they drop near level, nose heavy and by the time they reach about 800 feet below drop altitude are in a nose down posture. FYI.
mark06gt
Bombs in the HE 111 were loaded nose-up in the bombay, not horizontally like most other bombers. They did fall out tail first.
Touchwood
Excellent. For a moment there I thought it was a still from Battle of Britain as it has that feel to it. As mentioned the bombs were dropped tail first but all together, not singly giving the 111 payload a characteristic 'tumbling' action. There was also a variant that carried the V-1 under the fuselage.
chuter
Nice image, the lighting is great. Bombs didn't have to be salvoed from the 111, they could definitely be sequenced like this, but the 111 didn't have conventional bomb bay doors. Each rack had it's own spring loaded door that was pushed open and snapped shut as the bomb passed through. The nose up attitude of the bombs made loading easier (one hoist cable through an eye in the nose of the bomb) and offered less complex use of space in the plane. It could hurt accuracy significantly, however, due to the wobbling but only if you had a reasonably accurate bombsight to begin with - which the 111 didn't.
Scrib
excellent scene. thanks for all the information about the he.