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Offline ericr

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #25 on: September 29, 2013, 07:37:02 PM »
I like the Rutan Voyager FP and also the He-111ZW

Rutan is designing quite crazy planes, some of them avaliable in 1/72 ...
Giving them floats "improves" them a bit  ;)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #26 on: September 30, 2013, 04:42:46 AM »
Me too, and that gave me ideas to complet the set, with single-float ones:
thanks Ericr!


You're welcome! thanks for the bright colors!
I haven't tried a single central float P-38 yet ... maybe one day?
and the assymmetry is astonishing, as always.

another two-floats I did is this one  ;)




That just might be one of the cutest P-38s yet!

I'm probably not the only one going "Awwwww..."

Very nice work indeed!

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #27 on: September 30, 2013, 08:19:16 AM »
Yes delicious little egg-seaplane :-* :-*

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #28 on: September 30, 2013, 09:56:00 AM »
Tonight, with the precious help of Ericr yesterday, I have been able to give my Sea-Lightnings a more realistic look! (for the float shape, I mean...) ;)

I hope the public presentation of Ericr's models has been a tremendous public success in Grenoble and that a Qatari princess fell in love with his collection, for him to become the very first what-if billionnaire!

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #29 on: September 30, 2013, 02:48:59 PM »
Tonight, with the precious help of Ericr yesterday, I have been able to give my Sea-Lightnings a more realistic look! (for the float shape, I mean...) ;)


I hope the public presentation of Ericr's models has been a tremendous public success in Grenoble and that a Qatari princess fell in love with his collection, for him to become the very first what-if billionnaire!

Beautiful!

the exhibition goes on, and the organizers tell me the children are difficult to refrain from touching ;-)

but the collections shown in this collective exhibition are not for sale actually, and I received no spontaneous offer (until now ;-) )

 

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #30 on: October 01, 2013, 11:47:31 AM »
Not for sale? If one receives a zillion $ offer, almost everything may be sold ;) (at retirement with infinite budget to buy kits and tools, you could build your collection again)
 
Ericr, in your huge collection, have you float-booms on one? as on the Levasseur PL-200 (http://germo43.skyrock.com/3130509138-LEVASSEUR-PL-200-PL-201.html )
Or at least float-fins on one? as on the Nikitin PSN-2 (http://weaponsandwarfare.com/?p=4945 )
They may be the next ideas? No? :)
EDIT: the ER-38 Lightning-float family is growing and growing ar the end of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit , thanks again!
« Last Edit: October 01, 2013, 12:14:39 PM by Tophe »

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #31 on: October 01, 2013, 03:03:52 PM »
Not for sale? If one receives a zillion $ offer, almost everything may be sold ;) (at retirement with infinite budget to buy kits and tools, you could build your collection again)


I will wait for such an offer to arrive ...  ;)


 
Ericr, in your huge collection, have you float-booms on one? as on the Levasseur PL-200 (http://germo43.skyrock.com/3130509138-LEVASSEUR-PL-200-PL-201.html )


ah indeed, it does look quite extraordinay!
mmmmmhh ... I have to think ...
(I have two spare fuselages from Cams 37 kits by Azur ... I had an idea for them, but I might change? ... )

Or at least float-fins on one? as on the Nikitin PSN-2 (http://weaponsandwarfare.com/?p=4945 )
They may be the next ideas? No? :)


done !  ;D



I found the kit in resin somewhere ...
also the other one can be found :



EDIT: the ER-38 Lightning-float family is growing and growing ar the end of my site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/#Sit , thanks again!
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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #32 on: October 02, 2013, 12:37:36 AM »
Renewed congratulations! What a collection!

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #33 on: October 03, 2013, 12:06:39 AM »
Ericr, are you the one that built this red Float-Vampire?

If your heart balance between Seattle and Grenoble, this could be possible...

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #34 on: October 03, 2013, 04:01:38 AM »
Ericr, are you the one that built this red Float-Vampire?
...
If your heart balance between Seattle and Grenoble, this could be possible...

no, it's not me (I wouldn't hqve put decals  ;) )


but I am jealous!    :-\

Offline Tophe

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #35 on: October 03, 2013, 11:15:32 AM »
Sorry for having made you jealous, I was meaning (if that were not you in Seattle): you are not alone in the World... but maybe you are the leader of a special category of creative modelers. Be happy! (and you enjoy us here, maybe a million times more than usual visitors of Grenoble - you know, in the 1990s I thought I was the only unrealistic modeler in the World, then with Internet I thought I was one among several, simply the only French one, then I discovered we are plenty, simply judjed-bad by dictatorship of Realism... Yes, be happy here, and sorry again for having made you feel bad, if you were not kidding...).

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #36 on: October 03, 2013, 03:07:49 PM »


I was kidding of course : I like the idea so much I would have liked to have it myself  :)

It is indeed a pleasure to find forums like this one where people use inventivity and creativity!


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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #37 on: October 06, 2013, 09:15:09 PM »

The collection of collections moved from the central city park to the university campus : so I changed a bit the presentation, as well as the selection of shown planes: one wall of each color, simply.









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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #38 on: October 06, 2013, 09:42:42 PM »
Intesresting new pictures. Are some of them landplanes? or amphibious? (the yellow one in front)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #39 on: October 07, 2013, 01:08:33 AM »
Intesresting new pictures. Are some of them landplanes? or amphibious? (the yellow one in front)

yes indeed, some of them are amphibious flying boats like the yellow Canadair, and the Walrus close by, but all of them are seaplanes !

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #40 on: October 07, 2013, 11:25:17 AM »
The collection of collections moved from the central city park to the university campus : so
Saint-Martin d'Hères campus of Grenoble? That is interesting, while... the best would have been the Rangueuil campus of Toulouse with many students in aeronautics... I wish you a tremendous success anyway. ;)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #41 on: October 14, 2013, 08:00:01 PM »

oops,  it seems it has been a bit too hot for one of them

(floatplanized Airacobra, in blue)



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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #42 on: October 14, 2013, 10:24:28 PM »
Great! May I include it in my collection of asymmetric aircraft? with a new reason for asymmetry: broken down toy ;D ;)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #43 on: October 14, 2013, 11:00:21 PM »
please do  ;)
the category could be "melted down" rather than broken  :)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #44 on: October 14, 2013, 11:45:11 PM »
I have tried to follow your words. Is my text correct? (at the end of the site http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Asymm_addition.htm ) Thanks again!

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #45 on: October 15, 2013, 12:11:55 AM »
yes, it's ok  ;)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #46 on: October 15, 2013, 04:49:26 AM »

oops,  it seems it has been a bit too hot for one of them

(floatplanized Airacobra, in blue)




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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #47 on: October 22, 2013, 12:26:47 PM »
Dear Ericr,
When I directed you to Facebook's "Stargazer's Imaginary Aircraft" (showing a tandem-wing floatplane), you told me you had built a blue Lysander-Delanne seaplane. Is it this one? (or is this a sesquiplane seen from behind?)

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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #48 on: October 23, 2013, 03:39:15 PM »
Dear Ericr,
When I directed you to Facebook's "Stargazer's Imaginary Aircraft" (showing a tandem-wing floatplane), you told me you had built a blue Lysander-Delanne seaplane. Is it this one? (or is this a sesquiplane seen from behind?)



Hi Tophe,

this one must be a Macchi M.5 flying boat (1/48, in blue), sesquiplane indeed.

I just started a topic with the Delanne floatplane in orange, and Lysander (without floats) there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=3698.0


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Re: exhibition of collection of seaplane models in red-yellow-blue
« Reply #49 on: January 21, 2014, 12:59:24 PM »
Dear Ericr,
as a seaplane expert, have you considered building a seaplane with modern foils instead of antique floats? How could that work?