Project Eugène Seghers
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Commentaires
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I agree with Bart, thats very interesting, even to me. Did the Pilot Crash or was he shot down?
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I just added a picture of the memorial, that says that his spitfire was destroyed by the exploding V1.
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Stephan, I saw you made a very nice diorama of a 32sqn Hurricane in 1:48. Seghers was with that sqn and was shot down on 24 aug 1940 by a Messerschmitt Bf109E of JG26 , most probably by Adam Bernard. He baled out of Hurricane V6567 , which I am building as GZ*T.
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Thank you Erik 🙂 glad that you like my dio, I think you will build a very nice hurricane of 32sqn 🙂
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Hey Eric, nice job! Could you tell me where can i find moving pictures like this one? I need one for my P-51 which is flying over an airfield.
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Thanks, friends for your kind comments. Actually, the propeller of the spitfire is running and the flame of the V1 is flickering, but I cannot show this, as I do not know how to upload a mp4 file on scalemates.
Sebastian, for the "moving" picture , I first made a copy of the Uckfield area on Google Earth and I loaded into "paint.net" (free software) . There is a function "Effects / Blurs / Motion Blurs , which allows you to obtain the "moving" picture. Finally , I printed the result on A4 photopaper.
Coastal kits coastalkits.co.uk/ has ready made blurred display bases , but I wanted a curved background to hide the wiring of the V1 and spitfire engines.
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Great diorama, lovely models and a fitting tribute to a hero of WW2. Per Adua ad Astra.
Album info
Eugène George Achilles Seghers, was born in Ledeberg near Ghent on April 7th, 1910. His came from a working class family, his father was a fire stoker at the Belgian Railways. He became a military pilot in 1931. He flew with Fairey Fox at the 5/III/1Aé and at the 6/III/2Aé .
He was one of Churchill's Few in the Battle of Britain as Hurricane pilot at the 32 and 46 squadrons.
In April 1941 he joins the 609 Sq , as many other Belgians, flying the Spitfire Vb. In April 1942 he joins the 165 Sq, and was there Squadron Leader from March to June 1943. He was awarded a DFC on February 13, 1943. Later, he serves with 52 Operational Training Unitand the Central Gunnery School.
In June 1944, he joins 91 Sq. On July 26, 1944 he attacks a V-1 above Uckfield, Sussex, the bomb explodes and Eugène Seghers is killed, with his Spitfire XIV RM653.
The project is to build the aircraft flown by this pilot and a diorama of his last flight and killing.