Author Topic: Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes  (Read 288207 times)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #300 on: August 23, 2016, 03:14:46 AM »
a truer whiff : I made a twin-float version of the Ro-43 :






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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #301 on: August 23, 2016, 03:20:29 AM »
Cute
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #302 on: August 23, 2016, 02:07:12 PM »
I like it also.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #303 on: August 24, 2016, 11:00:31 AM »
Cute little thing, does it have siblings in the other primary colors?

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #304 on: August 25, 2016, 06:12:00 AM »

thanks!

Cute little thing, does it have siblings in the other primary colors?

not this time, because it was a box of 6, and I had to use two floats for this one, so I have only one left ...

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #305 on: September 02, 2016, 07:31:18 PM »

so I had these parts of the Loire 130 side floats, and I found out that the 1/144 Il-2 would have the appropriate size to fit them :







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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #306 on: September 02, 2016, 08:48:18 PM »
I think this is the first time I see an IL-2 on floats and it looks fantastic !
 :)
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #307 on: September 03, 2016, 02:31:24 AM »
Looking very real, good!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #308 on: September 03, 2016, 04:21:29 AM »
I think this is the first time I see an IL-2 on floats and it looks fantastic !
 :)

Agreed.
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #309 on: September 03, 2016, 11:03:09 PM »
I think this is the first time I see an IL-2 on floats and it looks fantastic !
 :)
Highly agree!  I can just see an operational one in Soviet Naval Aviation markings.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #310 on: September 04, 2016, 04:28:06 AM »

thanks all !

as I always say, if you find this inspiring please do make your own version  ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #311 on: September 09, 2016, 03:20:50 AM »

a resin kit, of very nice quality, and which I found not too expensive on e-b, of the Loire-Nieuport L.N.10 :

the whiff aspect is in the livery ; a backing story would be :
this particular LN10 was being prepared for a firefighting role, with appropriate red livery, when disorganisation of the society, due to invasive neighbouring countries, left the work unfinished, just after the first layer. What the airframe became afterwards remains unknown, due to the historical chaos.






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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #312 on: September 10, 2016, 12:17:34 AM »
Very beautiful! :-*
Ahem, I was ready to congratulate you for this invention of engines above the wing (for water-clearance) and Google showed me this invention came from Loire-Nieuport not yourself... Anyway, thanks for this choice of a poorly known plane, it gives me ideas for similar Lightnings, thanks again!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #313 on: September 10, 2016, 03:04:04 AM »

only the red livery is a whiff invention, indeed ; for the rest, reality is sometimes stranger than fiction  ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #314 on: September 14, 2016, 06:11:21 AM »
This could be my favorite one yet!

You've certainly captured the essence of those wonderful French designs!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #315 on: September 14, 2016, 11:08:51 AM »

thanks a lot !

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #316 on: September 29, 2016, 03:27:15 PM »

I had this "Espadon" for a few years, wondering what to do with it, and suddendly, upon finding a cheap S-328, I saw it :






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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #317 on: September 29, 2016, 03:33:12 PM »
Oh Yea, Oh Yea,  :)  :)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #318 on: September 29, 2016, 07:14:27 PM »
This model looks fantastic !!!
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #319 on: September 29, 2016, 11:59:43 PM »
That's awesome! Is that the Sharkit Espadon?

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #320 on: September 30, 2016, 12:29:41 AM »

thanks !

the original "kit" of the Espadon/Swordfish was a readymade figurine, so I just had to add the floats and paint in my own blue.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #321 on: September 30, 2016, 05:26:14 AM »
Oh Yea, Oh Yea,  :)  :)

What he said! :) :)
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #322 on: September 30, 2016, 12:36:40 PM »
Awesome!!!!  :) :) :) 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #323 on: September 30, 2016, 01:12:55 PM »
 :-* Wow!  :-*

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #324 on: October 02, 2016, 10:08:06 AM »
Superb!  I love it.