Blohm & Voss BV 138

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Blohm & Voss BV 138 C-1 coded ‘+B’, the Luftwaffe maritime reconnaissance flying boat left at the Tromsø (Skattøra) seaplane station in northern Norway at the liberation in 1945: a three-engined monoplane with a short, deep hull, its wing carried on two tail booms that run from the outer engine nacelles to twin fins and rudders joined by a high tailplane, three Junkers Jumo 205D diesels (the centre one high above the hull driving a four-bladed propeller, the outer two three-bladed), stabilising floats under the outer wings, a 20 mm gun turret in the bow and another at the rear of the hull and an open machine-gun position behind the centre engine, shown level on its keel: RLM 72 and 73 dark green splinter camouflage on the upper surfaces, booms, nacelles, fins and hull deck, RLM 65 light blue on the hull sides and undersides, late-war white-outline crosses on the booms with a white ‘B’, white-outline crosses on the wings and a white-outline swastika on each fin (shape from a BV 138 C-1 three-view scaled to the published span, length and height, checked against wartime photographs; the starboard side and its markings follow three Imperial War Museum photographs of this aircraft, and the port side, the wing crosses and the splinter pattern follow standard practice). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 370 models · download .glb (1.2 MB) · Plate 119 in The Hangar