Squadron 60 - Billy Bishop SE-5

[Willi]

This is my first experience with painting a Shapeways Print. Next time I will add another coat before decals, but all in all the experience was positive. This is the first but won't be the last. A Pfalz D.III is next.

[Flying Helmut]

Nicely done!

[Naharaht]

Good work, William!

[Baxter]

Very nice work and loved the explanations.

[Boney10]

Really nicely done, I like this one.

[gully_raker]

Excellent work!
You should be proud of that one.

[mikeemagnus]

Lovely job William. Thanks for the run through. A worthy Rep on the way

[Hedeby]

Nice work and a great start

[Willi]

Thank you all for the kind comments and REPs. I am finishing up a Pfalz D.III so look for that one, and I my brother Bob (BB401) have Be2s coming for conversion to a Night Fighters (2-seat to single seat) - must beat off those bloody Zeps!

[clipper1801]

Great picture, too bad the artist could not get the altitude correct, bombing altitudes of 20,000 feet for the "bloody Zeps", it was not so easy to approach them. The Be2's used all their wing area and power to just get up there . . . I have a pair of them with "strange" mounts to fire upward to close the altitude difference . . . still awesome to see the huge beasts in action . . . thanks for posting it!

[BB401]

Great picture, too bad the artist could not get the altitude correct, bombing altitudes of 20,000 feet for the "bloody Zeps", it was not so easy to approach them. The Be2's used all their wing area and power to just get up there . . . I have a pair of them with "strange" mounts to fire upward to close the altitude difference . . . still awesome to see the huge beasts in action . . . thanks for posting it!

Clipper: could you link us to a picture of the aforementioned strange mount be2'so? I feel a conversion coming on.....

[clipper1801]

Hey Bob, I did a thread on it long ago on a web space far away . . . here's some pics:







Do search on this site on "strange mounts" and you should find some better info . . .

Here is an interesting link, scroll down for the cool stuff!

http://www.century-of-flight.net/Avi...%20defence.htm

[grumpybear]

Very nicely done

[zenlizard]

Excellent work on the SE 5a. Looking forward to seeing what you do with the Pfalz.

[Willi]

Thanks for posting those Be2 pics David. Bob and I are grateful.

[Mike George]

Very nicely done I wish these old hands didn't shake so much I would love to try to do work like that.