Supermarine Walrus Mk.I

The Supermarine Walrus was an amphibious flying boat, carried by Royal Navy capital ships (battleships, cruisers) during the Second World War. Pushed along by a Bristol Pegasus radial engine, they were able to carry an assortment of weaponry to complement their primary role as reconaissance aircraft - depth charges and light bombs for anti-submarine operations, and for self-defense a pair of Vickers K machine guns.

Walrus Mk.I P5710 of the Fleet Air Arm was assigned to the battleship HMS King George V during 1941. W3100 was also assigned to HMS King George V at some point, as well as a time on her sister ship HMS Duke of York. The camoflague scheme for P5710 is partially based on photos of the real aircraft. There are no known photos of W3100 so this scheme is speculative.

Towards the end of the war, the continuing rise of the aircraft carrier and new carrier fleet tactics rendered aircraft facilities on battleships redundant, so they were removed from all four surviving ships of the King George V class during refits in 1944.

All modelling was done in Cinema 4D. Textures created in Substance Painter. Renderered with Redshift. Final compositing in DaVinci Resolve.