Westland Welkin

With a 70 ft wingspan, pressurized cockpit, four 20 mm cannons, two Merlins, a top speed of 390 mph and a service ceiling of 45000ft, the Welkin was cutting edge for 1942. Kept in reserve to counter Germany if it attempted high altitude bombing of Britain , the Welkin could fly higher than any other British aircraft of the day. The threat never materialized but 67 were kept in reserve. This illustration shows the prototype testing the 250 gallon drop tanks.
The aircraft is 100% vector with the background a mix of vector and raster.

WOW! You get so much detail in your drawings. It is incredible. Another winner, Gray.

Top notch work Gray.

Absolutely wonderful Gray!

Gray, your drawing looks like a photograph. There is so much detail and I love the way the props look as though they're spinning. Great motion effect. What a fantastic job, you have a true eye for detail and realism. wow, what a great job.

Paul

Fabulous, as usual and another plane I'd never heard of!

Very impressive, as always

Another fantastic drawing gray, great detail and a sense of movement, and you asked me to have a go and draw a whole aircraft! errrh I don't think so gray, I'll leave that to the master of aircraft drawing, although I'll draw the instruments for you ;))

Stygg

Beautiful and realistic work. But this is your standard... lupen

Thanks all for taking a look and leaving such positive comments. Much appreciate it.

Outstanding Gray!
I always enyoy seeing your work.
I always amazed at your clouds. And I know you have said it before that they are a mixture of vector and rastor graphics. May I ask what rastor program you use or does it really make any difference to the final outcome?

Thanks, Larry. I use the paint brushes out of an old 10+ year old program called GIF5. Any paint program with layers could be used. The newer paint programs would be much easier to use, I just haven't got around to upgrading my software. When I update my computer I'll probably renew everything.

Gray,
What can I say?, before open we open the thread All of us know you've made an incredible work , we are used to being surprised and amazed with every drawing you upload.
This work is as fantastic as the previous ones.
I think We have to change "congratulations" for "THANK YOU"
Best regards

Thanks so much Javier, for you very kind words.

Fantastic job Gray, there is nothing like a great drawing of a Old Warbird, also a bonus of a great history lesson to go with the drawing.

Thanks so much, Merv.

Hi Gray, I like your picture so much.

Thank you very much, Valery.

Stunning, as always Gray.

Your art always pique's my interest & elicits an inquisitive response from me. I thought it was a familiar design, but it wasn't a name (Welkin - the vault of heaven) I was aware of. In running a search, I see it was derived from the Whirlwind which I was familiar with.

The sheer thought process in deriving an aircraft for a perceived threat & hold it in reserve, at a time when they were up against it, typifies the resolve they had. I guess they could allow the Nazis to tie up resources developing the HA bombers always knowing they had a counter to it...the mind boggles.

Thanks so much BR, they were an interesting design for their time.

Amazing work!

All your aircraft drawings have been amazing. =D>

Thanks Evgeny, Rik for your comments.