Argentine "Balboa" flying boat for the Falklands War GB

[Brian da Basher]

If you haven't been over to the Falklands War/Guerra de las Malvinas 30yr Tribute GB, here's some pics of my entry, the Balboa flying boat.







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Brian da Basher

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Brilliant!  Was nothing like I was expecting from your description on the phone this weekend. 

[Doom!]

How could this be so different and so cool, you never dissappoint Sir Basher.  :)

[sequoiaranger]

The floats themselves look like elongated spats!

[deathjester]

The floats themselves look like elongated spats!

No, no, no - there is a row of retractable spats underneath the hulls - about twenty of them...

Seriousley, that is one nice build Mr Basher - really like that one!

[Sentinel Chicken]

This is imaginative, Brian! I see a Heinkel He 111's horizontal stabs used for fins, but trying to figure out the rest of the bits. Some sort of biplane kit supplied the wings? The way you did the cockpit in a domed section on the center wing looks so much like something out of the 1930s.

[Brian da Basher]

Cheers gents! And thank you, Mr Chicken!

The twin-tails are actually horiz. stabs. from a 1/72 Spitfire, but now that you mention it, they do resemble the ones from an He-111.

(By the way, Minicraft's 1/144 He-111 is eminantly whiffable!)


I started my next GB entry last night. You know, the famous Royal Navy combat airship the R-99. You've heard of it, right?

Brian da Basher

[Tophe]

Delicious twin-hull one! Thanks!

[RussC]

Nice build and concept. Would work very well in Italian markings too.

[Frank3k]

Very nice and evocative floatplane, Brian! Great use of spare parts!