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P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« on: February 04, 2017, 04:31:50 PM »
Years back, I already presented floaty P-38s and P-51s, but I will try to invent new ones... :-X ;)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2017, 06:24:27 PM »
Cristophe,you not cease to amaze me,I like very much this flying catamaran  :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2017, 08:24:03 PM »
Folks at Lockheed never thought of that!!  Cool!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #3 on: February 05, 2017, 01:59:06 AM »
Absolutely brilliant, mon ami!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #4 on: February 05, 2017, 03:58:09 AM »
Wow!  I love that! :) :-*
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2017, 02:06:42 AM »
Thanks you all!
And here another P-38 catamaran:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2017, 06:42:01 AM »
Savoia-Marchetti would be delighted with this beauty, mon ami!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2017, 03:43:59 AM »
Thanks! while... Maybe Savoia preferred the SP-82: (SP meaning not Savoia-Pursuit but Sea-Plane)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2017, 04:03:46 AM »
Beautiful!  :-*
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2017, 05:11:16 AM »
Now that's pretty cool!  I wonder how 2 1/144 PBY planing hulls would fit on a 1/72 F-82. 
Then I would add the other Allison to the rear of the engine nacelle, Savoia-style.  Longer range rival to the Saro SR.A1!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #10 on: February 10, 2017, 07:26:32 AM »
I like it! I bet a couple of P80 fuselages would work well for that. Add maybe Arado 196 floats to the bottom?
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #11 on: February 10, 2017, 10:27:50 AM »
How would your first version look using an F-82 instead of a P-38?

What if you add inverted gull wings to the second version?

Crbad, if you can find the Aeroclub set of vacuform floats you could build them all.....

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #12 on: February 10, 2017, 01:49:01 PM »
Thanks a lot for this bunch of great ideas! I will try to illustrate them...
First (most easy):

How would your first version look using an F-82 instead of a P-38?

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #13 on: February 10, 2017, 06:18:04 PM »
I really like your SP-82, Tophe. It has a grace to it that's entrancing.

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #14 on: February 10, 2017, 06:58:58 PM »
Classy cool  8)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #15 on: February 11, 2017, 03:44:01 AM »
Thanks a lot for this bunch of great ideas! I will try to illustrate them...
First (most easy):

How would your first version look using an F-82 instead of a P-38?

I might be nuts enough to try to build that.....
What to use for the curved wings is the question.....

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #16 on: February 11, 2017, 04:40:24 AM »
Truly brilliant Tophe!  :) :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #17 on: February 11, 2017, 04:54:52 PM »
Thanks!

What to use for the curved wings is the question.....
It seems, according to Google, there are models of "snecma coléoptère 1/72" by Mach and Planet. That could give 4 quarters-of-circle wings for 2 models (like P-82 AND P-51)...

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #18 on: February 11, 2017, 11:49:35 PM »
I wonder how 2 1/144 PBY planing hulls would fit on a 1/72 F-82. 
Then I would add the other Allison to the rear of the engine nacelle, Savoia-style.
Here is the Acreelidated PBY82 Catalistang (thanks!):

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2017, 12:07:12 AM »
Thanks!

What to use for the curved wings is the question.....
It seems, according to Google, there are models of "snecma coléoptère 1/72" by Mach and Planet. That could give 4 quarters-of-circle wings for 2 models (like P-82 AND P-51)...

I'll have to look into that! thanks!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2017, 01:21:02 AM »
I like it! I bet a couple of P80 fuselages would work well for that.
Ahem, P-80 Shooting Stars are not Mustang at all, while P-82 = P-51Z somehow. But a floatplane P-82 may have jets like a couple of P-80 (thanks!):

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #21 on: February 12, 2017, 03:06:12 AM »
I like it! I bet a couple of P80 fuselages would work well for that.
Ahem, P-80 Shooting Stars are not Mustang at all, while P-82 = P-51Z somehow. But a floatplane P-82 may have jets like a couple of P-80 (thanks!):

Tophe, you'll need some really, really big floats for a F-82 floatplane. The max T.O.W. for a F-82 is almost the same as a DC-3 (F-82 = 25,591 lbs, DC-3 = 25,199 lbs)and here's a pic of a DC-3 with floats (it was real world too with one still surviving today)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2017, 01:01:25 PM »
Thanks for the idea. While... the words seem all wrong to me, even if English is not my mother language: ??? :(

Tophe, you'll need some really, really big floats for a F-82 floatplane. The max T.O.W. for a F-82 is almost the same as a DC-3 (F-82 = 25,591 lbs, DC-3 = 25,199 lbs)and here's a pic of a DC-3 with floats (it was real world too with one still surviving today)

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- "really really/real world" is not my focus at all, I prefer dreams;
- the weight of my P-82 is not above 25,000lbs but below 1lbs, this is not a huge machine, this is a little paper/screen-picture (or maybe a plastic toy someday).
Thanks anyway... ;)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2017, 02:08:51 PM »
What if you add inverted gull wings to the second version?

This has been a whole process: XKE-38, YKE-38, KE-38A (thanks!):

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2017, 04:23:00 PM »
Illustrating your ideas was pleasant, thanks again, while, uh... I feel I need to invent myself also. So here are 2 other P-38 seaplane derivatives:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #25 on: February 13, 2017, 12:49:16 AM »
Add maybe Arado 196 floats to the bottom?
Uh? What is the relation between a P-38 and an Ar-196? Here it is!:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #26 on: February 13, 2017, 12:58:17 AM »
No:
- I "will need" nothing because I am not an engineer, endangering the life of pilots, I am a dreamer, "could" should replace "will";
- "really really/real world" is not my focus at all, I prefer dreams;
- the weight of my P-82 is not above 25,000lbs but below 1lbs, this is not a huge machine, this is a little paper/screen-picture (or maybe a plastic toy someday).
Thanks anyway... ;)


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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #27 on: February 13, 2017, 12:47:13 PM »
Here is the Acreelidated PBY82 Catalistang (thanks!):
This Catalistang is different: Wuzakidated PBY83, from an idea on the other forum.

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #28 on: February 13, 2017, 01:18:10 PM »
Tophe,

You misunderstood what i was saying.  I meant merely an interpretation of what you had already done, like this:
Slide1 by cacree, on Flickr

I was merely musing about the possibility of creating it in plastic.  If you don't mind, I might make a better profile version when I find more time...

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #29 on: February 13, 2017, 09:23:40 PM »
Ooooh,  but those last two are niiiice!  :-*
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #30 on: February 14, 2017, 01:06:40 AM »
Thanks!

Tophe,
You misunderstood what i was saying.  I meant merely an interpretation of what you had already done, like this:
I am very glad this misunderstanding made us invent one more! Here is the corrected one:
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #31 on: February 14, 2017, 01:49:20 AM »
Thanks to AXOR's great Fairchild 91 at http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7029.0
here is a similar Twin-Mustang flying boat:

Thanks!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #32 on: February 14, 2017, 02:09:00 AM »
The same with Mustang 51B canopies/razorbacks:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #33 on: February 14, 2017, 02:44:02 AM »
And on the P-38 side as well (thanks again AXOR!):

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #34 on: February 14, 2017, 03:00:07 AM »
And Sea-Twin-Lightning as well:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #35 on: February 14, 2017, 06:07:31 PM »
You're doing a great job Cristoiphe  :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2017, 12:26:39 PM »
Great stuff! Love those Fairchild 91-influenced variants  :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #37 on: February 18, 2017, 01:29:39 PM »
F2J-1 by cacree, on Flickr

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #38 on: February 18, 2017, 01:33:31 PM »
North American F2J-1 Sea Horse.   :-*

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #39 on: February 19, 2017, 03:30:16 PM »
Yes, congratulations, Acree :-* :-*

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2017, 10:06:17 PM »
Is this a floatplane? or/and a flying boat with parasol wing?

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #41 on: February 20, 2017, 04:25:23 AM »
You hit on an exceptionally neat concept, Tophe!

A float plane P-51 seems like an idea with limitless potential.

Your imagination is simply off the charts, mon ami!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #42 on: February 20, 2017, 06:24:20 PM »
Thanks Brian!

And, thanks to AXOR's great thread http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7029.0 here are mixes of P-38 and Fairchild 91 flying boat:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #43 on: February 21, 2017, 03:31:25 AM »
Is this a floatplane? or/and a flying boat with parasol wing?
a B version was also available:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #44 on: February 21, 2017, 10:42:25 AM »
How about a P-82 mounted above a PBY Catalina hull?

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #45 on: February 21, 2017, 04:23:30 PM »
How about a P-82 mounted above a PBY Catalina hull?
My posts of Feb.11th and 13th were about that P-82 above Catalina/hull, what different could/should I do?

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #46 on: February 22, 2017, 07:18:52 AM »
OOPS! I should have looked another page farther back before posting!

However, what if the regular Catalina tail was retained and the P-82 fuselages were cut off just behind the wing? Or same style but use a P-38?
Now I have the urge to buy a Catalina kit!

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« Reply #47 on: February 22, 2017, 07:07:30 PM »
However, what if the regular Catalina tail was retained and the P-82 fuselages were cut off just behind the wing? Or same style but use a P-38?
I will draw these ideas, thanks! :)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #48 on: February 23, 2017, 12:39:42 AM »
I love this one too!
The one with the Martin Mariner looking inverted gull wings.
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,4461.msg758930.html#msg758930

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« Reply #49 on: February 23, 2017, 02:50:46 AM »
Thanks!

And I love your idea, thanks again:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #50 on: February 23, 2017, 09:13:44 AM »
That sure makes me wonder how hard it would be to build a Catalina with in line engines......

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« Reply #51 on: February 23, 2017, 12:19:35 PM »
The other idea was marvelous too, thanks!:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #52 on: February 23, 2017, 01:05:20 PM »
or with even shorter "booms":

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #53 on: February 24, 2017, 02:23:37 AM »
A Lightning P-38, even truncated and turned seaplane must be a twin-something (not only twin-engine), so a Twin-Catalina low part seems a good idea... ;) ??? :-\
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« Reply #54 on: February 24, 2017, 02:47:19 AM »
Ooo, the Lightning with scale-o-rama Twin-Catalina floats is very nice  :)
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« Reply #55 on: February 24, 2017, 03:44:14 AM »
The last two are especially nice.

Your work is very pleasing to the eye, mon ami!

Great stuff, Tophe!

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« Reply #56 on: February 25, 2017, 01:14:45 AM »
Thanks!
The Twin-Mustalina was more "logical":

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #57 on: February 25, 2017, 02:01:11 AM »
Years back, I already presented floaty P-38s and P-51s, but I will try to invent new ones... :-X ;)



totally amazing !

and do-able in plastic ! I might try someday ...

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #58 on: February 25, 2017, 02:14:55 AM »
These gorgeous scaleorama'd Catalightnings -  :-* - give me an idea: Catalina hull (without tail or with the tail and rudder incorporated into the Lightning tailplane?) with Lightning cockpit incorporated into the hull. Wings and engines from a Lightning airframe (sans cockpit nacelle) mounted on the Catalina's pylon? Kinda like a fighter-sized Bv 138 Flying Clog.


EDIT: Just had a dig through the stash and found a 1/144 PBY and a 1/72 Lightning. The PBY hull looks a tad small. Should be much easier on the eye with either a 1/100-ish PBY to go with the 1/72 P-38 or - perish the thought  :o - go Quarter Scale with a 1/72 PBY and a 1/48 Lightning.

Anybody know where to find a 1/100-ish Monogram Catalina or two?  :P
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #59 on: February 25, 2017, 02:27:13 AM »
Thanks ericr!

And ChernayaAkula: I al working on your idea (if I understand it). Thanks also.
EDIT: I tried:
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« Reply #60 on: February 25, 2017, 03:54:29 PM »
Maybe I misunderstood partly, so I try again:

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« Reply #61 on: February 25, 2017, 04:02:14 PM »
Usually I prefer twin-boom but this five-boom one is sexy...:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #62 on: February 25, 2017, 04:10:10 PM »
Usually I prefer twin-boom but
A twin-boom version was very possible too:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #63 on: February 25, 2017, 04:23:35 PM »
And a twin-hull (symmetric, pusher) version:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #64 on: February 25, 2017, 04:52:49 PM »
Here is the collection of ChA-38A to F (Lightalina and Twin-Lightalina):


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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #65 on: February 25, 2017, 07:11:46 PM »
And on the Baikal Lake were Ekranoplan Lightnings too...:

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« Reply #66 on: February 25, 2017, 07:55:41 PM »
Of course there were Mustang Ekranoplanes too:

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« Reply #67 on: February 25, 2017, 09:55:01 PM »
 :)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #68 on: February 25, 2017, 11:40:05 PM »
<...>
And ChernayaAkula: I al working on your idea (if I understand it). Thanks also.
EDIT: I tried:

Very nice.  :D
This first one (in post #59) is almost what I thought. :) I thought about mounting the Lightning without the cockpit nacelle on the Catalina's pylon (the thing connecting fuselage to wings) and fairing the Lightning's cockpit (just the canopy basically) on the Catalina's hull. I suppose the Catalina's vertical rudder would attach to the Lightning's horizontal rudder.

Love the Ekranoplan versions. :-*
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #69 on: February 25, 2017, 11:51:36 PM »
All of these are fantastic! Now I must buy all the Catalina, P-38 and F-82 kits I can find!!!!!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #70 on: February 26, 2017, 12:00:49 AM »
Thanks a lot Kerick!
Chernaya Akula, is the drawing below closer to your dream? ;)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #71 on: February 26, 2017, 03:01:49 AM »
YES! It's perfect!  :-* Just what I imagined. Gonna have to build that one day!  :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #72 on: February 26, 2017, 02:08:18 PM »
I think this latest one is the best but the Ekranoplanes are awesome too!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #73 on: February 26, 2017, 02:28:42 PM »
Thanks!
And I have twinned the Mustang ekranoplane also:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #74 on: February 26, 2017, 05:30:45 PM »
YES! It's perfect!  :-* Just what I imagined. Gonna have to build that one day!  :)
Thanks! While, this well explained ChA-38G is not necessarily the final one but a new source of derivatives ChA-38H and I - aka Z)...

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #75 on: March 04, 2017, 08:10:34 PM »
The same with Mustang 51B canopies/razorbacks:
With parasol wing, this one is a little different:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #76 on: March 05, 2017, 12:05:38 AM »
Nice one!
If I could get the floats it would be buildable.

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #77 on: March 05, 2017, 12:47:45 AM »
I really like your P82-51C4 Tophe!

The parasol wing is a great choice too.

Nice stuff, mon ami!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #78 on: March 05, 2017, 01:45:17 AM »
Thanks a lot, both of you!

Now I may have invented something: middle wing floatplane without pylons and with nose propellers clear above water... ;)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #79 on: March 18, 2017, 09:58:49 PM »
a jet-sea-Lightning:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #80 on: March 18, 2017, 10:44:37 PM »
It's hard to choose one favorite,you have a lot of good ideas in this topic Christophe :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #81 on: March 19, 2017, 12:48:16 PM »
Thanks!
And the same idea on a Twin-Mustang gives this:

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #82 on: March 19, 2017, 08:00:06 PM »
 :)

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #83 on: March 19, 2017, 10:54:00 PM »
There are going to be lots of kits missing their floats!

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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #84 on: March 21, 2017, 11:49:20 AM »
Yup! Great stuff ... but your P82-51C4 is my current fav  :-*
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #85 on: April 03, 2017, 06:52:29 PM »
Years back, I already presented floaty P-38s and P-51s, but I will try to invent new ones... :-X ;)




I did it in plastic !



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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #86 on: April 04, 2017, 01:54:01 AM »
 :)
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Re: P-38 & 51 new seaplanes
« Reply #87 on: April 04, 2017, 02:41:31 AM »
I did it in plastic !
Plastic is a matter like others, the important thing is that it exists now, scale 1 I am sure... no? ??? ;)