Ok, I was wrong. When I posted the Wartime Countryside color study http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2699023 for  abakan commission I said that could begin working the final B/W drawing. Well I ran through my checklist of design elements for the piece and discovered that there was one very important element I had forgotten to study. The hangars which will feature prominently in the picture. Oops!

Now I have walked in and out hangars at airfields for decades, but never paid much attention to the structures themselves. After all it was the cool stuff they stored inside them, and the shade they provided or cover from the rain that mattered. They were just big sheds after all. Also most of the hangars I spent time in were small general aviation hangars which are not much bigger than three car garages. Military hangars are much larger since they often were designed to store either airliner size aircraft or multiple aircraft at once.

Now I had some photos that showed aircraft parked in front of hangars during WWII, but it is very is very hard to find images of just hangars themselves. They are not sexy so why take photos of them. What made things more aggravating was I could locate images of USAAF and RAF hangars but very little of Luftwaffe hangars. Even my book devoted exclusively to Luftwaffe ground vehicles gave only hazy and not very useful images of them. Trips to several local libraries yielded very little to. So it was Google to the rescue again!

Unfortunately not even might Google could come up with any really good German hangars, but since several designs seem to match RAF hangars I used several of them as reference. The final design I settled on is something of a hybrid but seems to encompass most of the features found on large hangars at that time.