The Sunderland has been sitting there for over 40 years. At last it is being restored to be ready to go into it's new building that is coming very soon, and this happens.
It's a real blow to the restoration. What a great shame.
JDK wrote:
tom d. friedman wrote:
that's a crap load of avengers!! what's the story on those??
Colourised wartime photo by, I presume, Dave Homewood - Dave?
Partly right. The Avengers on the right are taken from a wartime photo of No. 30 Squadron RNZAF Avengers lined up at Darton Field, Gisborne. I added a fourth Avenger to the original three by doubling and scaling the photo. I then colourised it. Then in the foreground left I added a photo I took of ZK-TBM "Plonky" when we rolled her out of the paintshop back in 1992 in RNZAF colours, but instead of leaving the well known Plonky nose art, I substitued it with a colourised version of another 30 Sqn nose art of the flying kiwi, which has a kiwi with model plane wings strapped to its own wings and the slogan "Who said the b________ couldn't fly?" It's my favourite Avenger nose art so I decided to bring it to life in full colour. It's just one of my little digital composite artworks.
Here's the nose art mentioned - this was a wartime black and wite photo that I coloured.
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