Heinkel He 177 Greif

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as Heinkel He 177 A-5/R6 Greif Werknummer 550062, formerly ‘F8+AP’ of 6./KG 40, as flown by the RAF as TS439 at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, in 1944–45: Germany’s only operational heavy bomber, with a coupled DB 610 power plant (two DB 605s geared to one four-blade propeller) in each of its two nacelles, a long glazed ‘cabin’ nose over a ventral Bola gondola, a dorsal barbette and turret, a raised tail-gunner’s position and a wing spanning 31.44 m, shown tail down on its twin-wheeled main legs: pale RLM 76 fuselage sides, nacelles and fin with a soft grey-green mottle, RLM 70 and 71 splinter upper wing, tailplane and spine, mid-grey undersides, five white and black bands round the rear fuselage and across the outer wings, RAF roundels on the fuselage and wings, a fin flash and the serial TS439 (no He 177 survives; shape from an He 177 A-1 three-view adjusted to the published A-5 changes and checked against wartime photographs of this aircraft; the photographs are black and white, so all colours are judged, and the guns are shown as short stubs as none are visible on TS439). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 342 models · download .glb (1.7 MB) · Plate 143 in The Hangar