Author Topic: Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes  (Read 287990 times)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #550 on: October 21, 2017, 04:20:59 AM »
 :smiley:
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #551 on: October 21, 2017, 01:03:53 PM »
Very nice!!  Would probably need a deeper keel and appropriate chines, but very nice.  The bow doors are not inappropriate for a flying boat, look at the Convair R3Y-1 Tradewind.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #552 on: October 21, 2017, 03:06:04 PM »
The bow doors are not inappropriate for a flying boat
On the contrary, I think the flying boat is going right to the beach, with speed to reach the sand, then it opens its doors and this is direct delivery of the load, no?

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #553 on: October 21, 2017, 07:29:36 PM »

thanks !

at that time I had thought of the Tradewind indeed!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #554 on: October 23, 2017, 02:47:06 AM »

one more picture of this old build, wth 1/72 cars, Minis, appropriately, and in appropriate colors too




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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #555 on: October 23, 2017, 01:24:01 PM »
Anson and Superfrieghter are great  :smiley:
Like how/that you made flying boat connection to Superfrieghter and then built it.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #556 on: October 24, 2017, 04:14:23 AM »

thanks !


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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #557 on: October 28, 2017, 12:39:59 AM »
Loving the freighter, what a superb idea, tempting, very tempting.
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #558 on: October 28, 2017, 03:05:13 AM »

please do surrender to temptaion !   ;D

you would certainly make it something different, I'd love to see it  ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #559 on: October 28, 2017, 10:47:51 PM »

From my archive, done quite a while ago, recalled by a discussion on another thread, and relevant to this thread :




and another one, also Tophe inspired at the time :



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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #560 on: October 28, 2017, 11:30:56 PM »
Wonderful seaplanes.  :smiley:

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #561 on: October 29, 2017, 03:56:47 AM »

thanks !

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #562 on: October 30, 2017, 12:57:26 AM »
I clap my hands here also, as these models deserve a double dose of clapping hands! :-* :-*

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #563 on: October 30, 2017, 02:21:01 AM »
 ;D

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #564 on: November 23, 2017, 04:38:15 AM »



 once again Tophe-inspired :




but with some transformations and a translation to 3D.

Here it is, the M.C.72z :










with, this time, a few WiP images :












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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #565 on: November 23, 2017, 01:22:59 PM »
That's seriously different, very well done!!! 8) 8) 8)
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #566 on: November 24, 2017, 01:37:55 AM »
The wonderful result from you, ericr, is almost "as usual", but in progress pictures of yours are very rare, and much appreciated. Like if making it is normally difficult (as for us), not magical! ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #567 on: November 24, 2017, 05:02:10 AM »

thanks !

I usually am a bit too lazy to document the building  ;) this one came along quite easily ...
I am busy with another (also, by the way, again, inspired by you ... but I will not make much more Tophe-inspired stuff, I promise :
I also have other ideas coming along  ;D )

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #568 on: November 25, 2017, 01:35:34 AM »
Love it. :smiley:
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #569 on: November 25, 2017, 01:46:19 AM »
One badass high-speed hydroplane!  :icon_killbill:

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #570 on: November 28, 2017, 02:28:51 AM »
 :D

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #571 on: December 11, 2017, 04:56:02 AM »
a Hasegawa Mu-2J, with the floats from an An-2 :








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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #572 on: December 11, 2017, 07:05:09 AM »
Very nice!  Though I suspect the underslung engine intakes may be susceptible in spray from the floats.  It's a good and rugged aircraft and I suspect it would acquit itself well in this role.  I probably would have kept the main landing gear bulges and repurposed them as external stowage compartments.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #573 on: December 11, 2017, 07:27:26 AM »
Looks like should be out there doing transport duties. :smiley:

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #574 on: December 11, 2017, 07:27:58 PM »
That looks . . . . right, nicely played 8) 8) 8)
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