Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: ericr on April 24, 2015, 04:37:19 AM
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So, the thing is, I like seaplanes : floatplanes, single-float and double-float or even more, and flying boats as well (single-hull, double-hull or more).
Actually I like them so much that I sometimes floatplanize, or even flying boatize aircraft that were never meant for that, but to me it looks like an improvement (like, to some others, fitting longer wings, it seems).
And I like to paint in primary colors : plain yellow or red or blue, sometimes two of them, or the three.
In the past I have already posted quite a few of them, titled by the aircraft type or name, but the effect of series gets lost in separate posts.
Therefore I thought I might as well start a thread on this.
To begin, here comes a Vought Kingfisher, at the funny scale of 1/200 : it came with its own catapult, which is very nice.
And to give it a bit of context, I looked for a support for the catapult : a boat not too large, just enough to carry it, in a spirit remembering the Aurora boat in the Tintin adventure where he flies a yellow (!) Ar196.
At the scale of 1/200, I found out about the ETV Waker (that had a life as a Greenpeace vessel too apparently), already gifted with a helicopter deck, and featuring a nice rear deck, with good room for the catapult :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/kingfisher-s_zpspvdo7evl.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4150075s_zpsfwpe9nzu.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4150079s_zpsowusgys3.jpg)
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:) Excellent
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And I like to paint in primary colors : plain yellow or red or blue, sometimes two of them, or the three.
I like your primary colour approach Eric, breath of fresh air it is ...
... the effect of series gets lost in separate posts ... therefore I thought I might as well start a thread on this.
... and this is a good idea, the animal/airplane thread and this one, a great way to organise your very original work.
This one looks good, proportions look right. Will be good to see more of your floaty things :)
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thanks! I also tried something with the same scale Marwede rescue boat : pictures soon ...
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And to give it a bit of context, I looked for a support for the catapult : a boat not too large, just enough to carry it, in a spirit remembering the Aurora boat in the Tintin adventure where he flies a yellow (!) Ar196.
here is a picture of the inspiration by the way
(http://www.gorianet.it/tintin/dessins/etoi23a2.jpg)
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Beautiful model (usually I do not love boats/ships, but with these flashing colours, I smile and like, yes)
At the scale of 1/200, I found out about the ETV Waker (that had a life as a Greenpeace vessel too apparently)
Thanks to build a new vessel for Greenpeace (our president destroyed one abroad, without asking our approval, I say Sorry, blame him not us...). I don't know if Greenpeace can use this vessel also for Whale campaigns (the animals may come and laugh, instead of going away far to save themselves)...
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thanks Tophe!
I am not too much into boats either, but when sealplanes are concerned, I am interested ;)
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So I had this 1/200 Kingfisher and catapult kit, and it has two of each actually, and I thought, instead of making two Kingfishers, why not use this centrale float and pair of secondary floats for floatplanizing another aircraft?
The trick was to find a kit for an aircraft with the roght size for the float to fit : I finally decided on a 1/144 Po-2, which has the right length, and did exist as a central-float version known as Po-2M :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4250110s_zpszpluxakk.jpg)
and I installed it on the same seaplane tender :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4250113s_zpsed1x2sjw.jpg)
I also tried another 1/200 boat : the Marwede rescue ship, which also has a helicopter deck (actually not for landing, I read afterwards, only for manoeuvering, but well, this is whiff anymay ;) ) :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/po2-144-s_zps9rz3ki6l.jpg)
but the Po-2 looked a bit too large for that, so I prefer to assign it to the Waker :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4250107s_zpshp6okw0s.jpg)
whereas the Kingfisher looks quite right on the Marwede :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4250114s_zpsgvjdmf3h.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P4250117s_zpstxd5cejh.jpg)
don't you think? ;)
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This is one of my favorite projects of yours yet, Eric! Those primary colors remind me of Southwest Airlines.
Maybe Southwest Airlines Search & Rescue?
I'll get me coat...
Brian da Basher
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This is one of my favorite projects of yours yet, Eric! Those primary colors remind me of Southwest Airlines.
Maybe Southwest Airlines Search & Rescue?
I'll get me coat...
Brian da Basher
thanks!
actually, if this inspires you for a series of Southwest Airlines (nice color choice indeed ;) ) Search & Rescue, please go ahead! :)
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*snicker* I can just see Southwest Airlines SAR aircraft with all female crews wearing uniforms like those their cabin crews wore when the airline first started but adapted for working in a water environment.
Seriously some nice seaplanes and tender, the primary colors work well. I presume a seaplane working for a research ship at either Pole would be bright red?
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*snicker* I can just see Southwest Airlines SAR aircraft with all female crews wearing uniforms like those their cabin crews wore when the airline first started but adapted for working in a water environment.
Seriously some nice seaplanes and tender, the primary colors work well. I presume a seaplane working for a research ship at either Pole would be bright red?
thanks!
I might have tried red for the seaplanes indeed ;-)
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speaking of red seaplanes, here is a central-float version of the Ar196 :
I had been longing for this kits for quite a few years, and suddenly found it,
and built it in red.
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ar19648-s_zpsv41mfa5w.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P2250262s_zpsmbfxrrtm.jpg)
The twin floats set is in the kit, so I have it as a spare "for something else" as someone said recently ;)
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Which kit is it? I didn't know the single float version was available in 1/48.
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Which kit is it? I didn't know the single float version was available in 1/48.
the kit is a bit rare indeed, it can be found on ebay now and then, and can be seen there :
(http://www.esswex.co.za/avactis-images/MPM48031.jpg)
the what-if story for mine could go like : after building the prototype a special primary coat of anticorrosive was applied, and the pictures were taken just before the camouflage paintig that followed ...
I intend to use the spare floats for seaplanes, probably imaginary, and also probably two signle-float seaplane (to maximize fun ;) )
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Interesting...I knew of the original version of this kit:
(https://s1.scalemates.com/products/img/4/0/6/149406-11814.jpg)
But not the one with the Ar-196B option. Will have to keep an eye out.
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recently a discussion about twin-seaters reminded me of the Meteor Prone, and so I was induced in acquiring the MPM kit, a lovely one, but although the topic is surprising enough to be nearly whif, I felt it could be improved, not in this case by fitting longer wings (which it does deserve, honestly ;-) ), but by floatplanization.
A motivation was the availability of the AR196 1/48 floats from the kit above : I considered putting both, but that would have looked a bit heavy, so I preferred a central-float layout, like this :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/prone-s_zps07gtlu9v.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P5100028s_zpsrn2prdhw.jpg)
and I noticed the clever bottom-window for the front crew, now nicely in front of the float for full visibility :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P5100030s_zpsmjgf5kyo.jpg)
and the second float is waiting for an assignment ...
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That does look fast just sitting there. I'd go with pylons instead of struts to mount the floats (better streamlining) but it looks superb.
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That looks great
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thanks!
struts are maybe a bit old fashioned for such a fifties design indeed, and pylons have elegance :
if I make a second version, I might try to remember that ;)
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Wonderful Prone Meteor floatplane! :-*
I had forgotten this prone Meteor, and I am willing to draw P-51 and P-38 dérivatives on the same principle (maybe not seaplanes for my side but your model is perfect this way, thanks for sharing with us!) :)
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thanks Tophe!
and now for something completely different
(but still in the topic of course)
Sometime ago a discussion reminded me of the possibility of three-seater P38, combining Droop and P38M, where I learned there actually was one :
(http://p38assn.org/images/surviving/scatterbrain.jpg)
so I was fired, and went out to find a P38M by Revell
(http://www.oldmodelkits.com/jpegs/Revell%2004293%20P-38ed.JPG)
to which I could not resist adding ... guess what? ... floats : coming from the classical Airfix Ar196,
and the nose comes from some larger glass-nosed aircraft (Dassault Flamant? Pembroke?), so it required to use some putty but it ended up not too badly.
and so here it goes, in yellow :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/p38mdroop-s_zps894z0gze.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P5130047s_zpsmatdkfvz.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P5130050s_zpsyypqmznp.jpg)
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I like
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Nice! Never knew there was a 3-seat P-38.
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Thanks for the discovery of the 3-seat P-38, that I am willing to draw soon.
In the meantime, I made the prone-post P-38 that your great prone-Meteor floatplane made me dream of (thanks again!):
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/2015/r_P38eclairL_abm_zpsrevnqdfp.jpg)
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Thanks for the discovery of the 3-seat P-38, that I am willing to draw soon.
With my brand new software Corel Draw Home X7, the new ones come almost supersonically... From the discovery of dear ericr, I have invented further the ERI-38S-9 and ERI-38S-12... thanks for this pleasant piece of delirium!
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/r_P38eclairL_abo.jpg)
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Very nice float-plane P-38. If you want to do another one and want a bit more challenge, try doing the upswept tailbooms concept that was trialed on one P-38 in anticipation of a floatplane adaptation for trans-Pacific ferry flights.
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As seen here:
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/P-38E_scorpion-tail_zpsws46z1qc.jpg)
Images of the floatplane proposal:
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/Seaplanep38_zpsvjgcbpsw.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/P-38%20floatplane%20Voyna%20v%20vozdukhe%20103_zpsrml3pkvo.jpg)
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/P-38E%20floatplane_zps56mth4oq.jpg)
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Sometimes, there are more obvious reasons to raise up the tail: ;)
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thanks for the pictures, I knew only part of them!
the upswept booms would be a challenge indeed ...
Another, more whiff option would be a central float version
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by the way, the previous pictures were uncomplete : here come the engine hoods closed :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P5190118s_zpswzkaki7s.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/P5190120s_zpsdvp7ke13.jpg)
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:-* (this is even better, to my taste) :-*
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I really like the clear nose and putting it on floats is truly inspired!
Brian da Basher
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thanks!
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this central float version is just lovely, and I like to have it civilianized in yellow (a bit like the Tintin Ar296A), and the Revell 1/32 kit is very neat and very large :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ar196b32-s_zpsfvlovqh1.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC00062s_zpsmfwqaxkx.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ar196b32-s_zpsfvlovqh1.jpg)
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:)
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The P-38 looks great, but the Ar196 looks great in yellow!
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I love yellow indeed, thanks!
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i like that, works really well
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This seems a serious aircraft but pleasant anyway... ;)
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a bit more whiff : the Beechcraft Kansan (PM kit, much better than I expected actually) with the floats from a Revell/Matchbox Twin Otter :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/kansan-s_zpsyfaxjzoj.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC00078s_zpsqdmdoi0a.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC00080s_zpsqggrzsda.jpg)
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:)
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I like it also, thanks!
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thanks!
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Oh yes! That works incredibly well, ericr!
So much so that I wonder why I've never seen a Kansan on floats before...it's an absolute natural for them!
Blue was a truly inspired color choice as well.
Outstanding!!!
Brian da Basher
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thanks a lot!
the Kansan is actually quite like the Beech 18 which is often seen on floats ;
but here there is the Droop glass nose on top of it ;)
Oh yes! That works incredibly well, ericr!
So much so that I wonder why I've never seen a Kansan on floats before...it's an absolute natural for them!
Blue was a truly inspired color choice as well.
Outstanding!!!
Brian da Basher
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when helicopters float, they are usually equipped twin floats, and sometimes with a hull like flying boats.
But never (to the best of my modest knowledge) with a single central float (like tho Arado196 above), and additional smaller side stabilizers.
There had to be some justice done here, and so I volunteered for the necessary mission.
I had to choose the helicopter appropriately, notably w.r.t. the side floats, and I had a spare 1/48 Arado 196 float : the ideal candidate was the so particularly looking Mi24 (after some hesitation for the more angular Ka-58) :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/mi24-s_zpsjkbs9jfw.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC00140s_zpsjjzfyf3w.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC00144s_zps5ibyvyre.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC00145s_zps7iaejfgn.jpg)
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Niiiiiiiice! :-*
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thanx!
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Yes, quite innovative! :)
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Great work on the Hind. Gives me a couple of scary thoughts.
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thanx!
don't be afraid of whif thoughts ;-)
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Nice, and, really, quite plausible.
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Nice, and, really, quite plausible.
I couldn't agree more! Sure looks every bit the business! I half expected to see it performing a daring rescue at sea!
Very well done!
Brian da Basher
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thanks!
and now into the tiny :
twin-float versions of the Romeo Ro-43, at the scale of 1/700
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC00779s_zpsyj4nzl34.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/ro43-700-s_zpshjgym8ms.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC00782s_zpsh7kzdnkl.jpg)
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Lovely! :-*
And I made the calculations: IMAM Ro.43 length 9.71 meters means 1/700 is 14 millimeters! Double wow!! :-* :-*
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Lovely! :-*
And I made the calculations: IMAM Ro.43 length 9.71 meters means 1/700 is 14 millimeters! Double wow!! :-* :-*
they are small indeed : the single-float ones are Out Of the Box Trumpeter 1/700 : there are even decals actually ...
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another whiff by the addition of one float to the usually single float Marcel Besson MB411, at 1/350 :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/mb411-350-s_zpsmptbqzxq.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC00916s_zpswya7ba1e.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC00917s_zpskwzwujmv.jpg)
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Uh? I should admit I did not know the 'Real' one... ???
I found it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besson_MB.411 following your words.
This is a surprising T-tail plane, and I am willing to create a similar Mustang now, thanks!
For the Besson floatplane family, your own collection proves it was also 'mass-produced' in twin-float version, hehehe... ;)
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indeed the downwards tail is an originality, but not completely unique :
Junkers did one for a Stuka inspired development I think in the 40s
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indeed the downwards tail is an originality, but not completely unique :
Junkers did one for a Stuka inspired development I think in the 40s
I did not remember but you are very right: (Google confirmed) Junkers Ju-187 Super-Stuka (there is/was a Unicraft model of it):
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/JUNKERS187Page.htm (http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/JUNKERS187Page.htm)
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(http://i729.photobucket.com/albums/ww291/joncarrfarrelly/TBZ.jpg)
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Unusual and interesting... does this count as Variable Geometry?
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Hansa Brandenburg W12 and W29 had downwards verticals tails as well. I believe this was to improve firing arcs for the rear gunner.
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Good idea! I imagine a P-61 turning to a Bv-141 layout to improve in flight the firing rearward arc... Thanks to make us dream... :icon_ninja: ;)
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do you mean in-flight reconfigation of the airframe? that is wild ;D
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I will try to show it in 3 or 5 pictures (maybe with modified P-38 basis including a rear post), I have not enough skills to make a cartoon film of it... unless I succeed activating again the morphing software I had on the previous computer.
;)
(thanks for this idea, I will call that plane the Erining, as a tribute)
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you're welcome: your imagination fires my imagination ;)
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I will try to show it in 3 or 5 pictures (maybe with modified P-38 basis including a rear post).
(thanks for this idea, I will call that plane the Erining, as a tribute)
Here is the IFA-38 Erining, In-Flight-Asymmetric, getting a perfect rear arc for the rear post, if required only:
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/P38eclairM_aaf.jpg)
Thanks ericr inventor! Maybe this is not very solid scale 1, but on paper or cartoon, this is easy... ;)
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waahh :)
looks a bit like a p38-based transformer? ;)
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I used the floats for twin-float versions, so there remained the airframes :
i order to avoid uselessness, with the floatless MB411 and Ro.43, I built up this fly-tape scene :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/flytape-s_zpsxjexpgg6.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC01003s_zpsy6jq6wuh.jpg)
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Poor flies, glued there forever?
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;D
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That's really clever! You could probably put it up in an art gallery, write some pretentious text, price it at $10,000 and you'll probably have a bidding war.
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That's really clever! You could probably put it up in an art gallery, write some pretentious text, price it at $10,000 and you'll probably have a bidding war.
Yes! And as the name of ericr in Art will become 1,000 times more famous than Miro or Picasso little-child-like painters, the value will grow up and up to reach $10,000,000 (or even more: 10,000,000€ or 10,000,000Ł), this is a good investment, with a 1 to 1,000 profit (almost) guaranteed! Just sign here... ;)
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well, I'm not in it for the money, luckily because I don't think it would quite work ;)
I am rather looking for the fun of pursuing ideas like "what if aircraft had some relation with insects?"
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I had it in mind for some years, I don't really know why, and it had to be the twin seater ...
and finally I met a nice TA4 kit, which I combined with a beautifully shaped Twin Otter float :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/a4skyhawk-s_zps6qkiad7o.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC01945s_zpsl4ltzoit.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC01949s_zpsqqfhcouy.jpg)
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:)
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Nice A4, this works :)
Inspired to build similar.
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Very harmonious, thanks for this piece of enjoyment. :-*
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thanks all
Nice A4, this works :)
Inspired to build similar.
please do ! ;)
I use only monochrome primary colors, but other liveries coudl be invented
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I have been inspired this morning, thanks a lot, ericr! ;)
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Bv141z_s.jpg)
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I have been inspired this morning, thanks a lot, ericr! ;)
beautiful!
I makes me think of this, which I posted some (long) time ago :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/PA230468s_zps42c424e7.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/vogt2_zps6da94e2f.jpg)
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Wonderful Bv-194W, yes :-* :-*
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Just imagine an amphibian version or the Skyhawk Floatplane with perhaps harrier type undercarriage incorporated into the central float and out riggers! Just imagine the diabolical challenges in making it work for a land based amphibian Skyhawk, then also for a carrier operation (like the Walrus, Sea Otter and Seagull ASR1 etc.), could you imagine the absolute terror experienced by pilots coming to land an amphibian Skyhawk or similar on a carrier?
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Just imagine an amphibian version or the Skyhawk Floatplane with perhaps harrier type undercarriage incorporated into the central float and out riggers! Just imagine the diabolical challenges in making it work for a land based amphibian Skyhawk, then also for a carrier operation (like the Walrus, Sea Otter and Seagull ASR1 etc.), could you imagine the absolute terror experienced by pilots coming to land an amphibian Skyhawk or similar on a carrier?
luckily, in the whiff world, there is no fear ;D
speaking of the Harrier, I did try something, not amphibious but ...
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/IMG_9500_zps5871c786.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/harrier_zps66dd417a.jpg)
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What can I say, that Harrier looks so right! Another thought for one that would look so right, a Grumman Panther on a single float.
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Being a bit of a TA-4 buff, I'd have to say your float TA-4 is a cool idea 8), a great bit of original thought and Whiffery :) ;) 8) 8)
From what I can see in your pics (a side and bottom view would've been helpful) the problem is there just isn't any structure where you've picked to attach to the fuselage on your model. The front attachment is in a void called the 'Forward Hell Hole' that gives access to aileron power pack, engine intake, front face of the engine and the CSD unit, also a rack can be attached here for a large bag (for pilot kit).
The aft attachment you've chosen appears to also be in a void, called the 'Aft Hell Hole' where we gain access to the single point refuelling receptacle, hydraulic couplings, drains, the rear engine mount, wing tank fuel pump and the jet pipe attachment fitting, it would severely interfere with engine changes (the whole tail comes off an A-4/TA-4 to effect an engine change) and make it unnecessarily complicated.
The best attachment option would be to use stores station 3 on the centre line belly where it is already stressed for 3600lb (?) weapons carriage. The loss of this weapons station would not be a big problem as you could install a fuel tank in the float and instantly increase the jet's range. Also a single pylon attachment would reduce form drag and limit the affect on the jets manoeuvrability requiring no modification to do engine changes or standard A-4/TA-4 maintenance. Also you could use the now unused main landing gear bays as extra fuel tanks for even more range.
Are your out rigger floats fitted to the outer weapon stations? These stations are cleared to carry 500lbs each and would make an excellent place to fit floats with some beefing up of the structure. There is a bit of a prob with outriggers that cannot fold or retract as an A-4 can roll at approx. 720deg a second, pilots that do this with a full wing tank have actually blown out the tip of the wing tanks due to excessive G at these locations, so one would think a non-retractable/foldable float assembly wound not fare well either.
I'd be concerned at the amount of spray that the voracious J-52 would suck up at full power, so it makes sense to increase the width and length fore and aft of the gun blast strakes and have them double as intake spray guards without affecting the guns.
Well done again, hope this helps,
Neil
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Fairey Fulmar or Battle, maybe even a Bolton Paul Defiant on a single float, a float plane scout fighter for service on capital ships with a number of aircraft, i.e. three fighters and one Walrus instead of four Walrus. Mid war changes to Fireflies, maybe even Typhoons ;)
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Forgot to mention it but the Blackburn B.44 was a very interesting take on seaplane fighter design 8)
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Forgot to mention it but the Blackburn B.44 was a very interesting take on seaplane fighter design 8)
And the obvious question to follow that is, "what are Unicraft kits like?"
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Wonderful float-Harrier (this is "The Real Sea-Harrier" somehow!). :-*
I just wonder what happens at (vertical) take-off: does the flame backwards make the water boil and go to steam like big fume? weird... ;)
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What can I say, that Harrier looks so right! Another thought for one that would look so right, a Grumman Panther on a single float.
thanks for the compliment, and thanks for the idea ;D
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Being a bit of a TA-4 buff, I'd have to say your float TA-4 is a cool idea 8), a great bit of original thought and Whiffery :) ;) 8) 8)
From what I can see in your pics
... snip ...
Well done again, hope this helps,
Neil
thank you very much for your appreciation!
You seem indeed to be a Skyhawk specialist, which makes it even more meaningful to me.
I have to confess (but you might have guessed already ;) ) that my Whiffery is of the wild kind, rather than carefully engineered.
Actually, when I considered where to attach the float, I thought about the central pod place indeed, but that seemed too high and close to the fuselage; then I noticed two rectangles in the panel lines (probably the accesses to the holes you mention) and went for that ;-) and then the side floats ended up a bit far from the wings indeed ... it "works" only in a whiff world
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Fairey Fulmar or Battle, maybe even a Bolton Paul Defiant on a single float, a float plane scout fighter for service on capital ships with a number of aircraft, i.e. three fighters and one Walrus instead of four Walrus. Mid war changes to Fireflies, maybe even Typhoons ;)
thanks a lot for the ideas : I still have a few floats left indeed ;D
a Defiant on floats would remind of a Blackburn ROC which I did in the past
(http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii120/Duggy009/Blackburn-Roc-Floatplane-13059.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/roc_zpskivwkskw.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/IMG_1882_zpsjmancwfn.jpg)
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Forgot to mention it but the Blackburn B.44 was a very interesting take on seaplane fighter design 8)
a beautiful concept indeed, a bit amphigouric maybe ;)
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Wonderful float-Harrier (this is "The Real Sea-Harrier" somehow!). :-*
I just wonder what happens at (vertical) take-off: does the flame backwards make the water boil and go to steam like big fume? weird... ;)
as PR19_kit once said, it can make for a good tea ;-)
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I don't know why but a central float with out riggers just seems to look cleaner and faster than a twin float set up. I know its more complex than that but that's how it looks.
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I don't know why but a central float with out riggers just seems to look cleaner and faster than a twin float set up. I know its more complex than that but that's how it looks.
yes indeed, it looks more elegant somehow I agree
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It could even be justified in terms of permitting a ship configured to operate Walrus, Otter or Seagull amphibians to also easily operate single main float fighters. The King George V class battleships as well as the pre-WWII battleship and battlecruiser modernisations included a cross deck catapult and hangers for four aircraft of Walrus size, so could easily accommodate float plane versions of the types I listed previously.
I have long imagined floatplane fighters designed to fly off RN battleships in the 1930s with more and more powerful types entering service through until sufficient numbers of carriers made them irrelevant. Your neat work is getting the ideas flowing, especially that Skyhawk.
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Now my Whiffing creative juices are flowing :-*, I think I need to pick up another (Hasegawa) TA-4 and give your idea a go (with my mods that is :))), but use Volkodav's idea of defensive detachments based on catapult equipped battleships, cruisers etc, could use codes and markings etc from A-4 air defense detachments that were assigned to the smaller USN ASW equipped Essex class carriers during the 1960's. 8) 8)
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Now my Whiffing creative juices are flowing :-*, I think I need to pick up another (Hasegawa) TA-4 and give your idea a go (with my mods that is :))), but use Volkodav's idea of defensive detachments based on catapult equipped battleships, cruisers etc, could use codes and markings etc from A-4 air defense detachments that were assigned to the smaller USN ASW equipped Essex class carriers during the 1960's. 8) 8)
very good ! it will obviously be interesting to see it done your way :)
I can admit that my style is a bit specific ;D
On the naval aircraft floatplanization side, I can also suggest the Tomcat, here in twin-floats but maybe adaptable to single float?
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/tomcat-144_zpsq4whg9g0.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/IMG_9533_zpstyqiiqnh.jpg)
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Delicious Tomcat! :-*
And this explains why the USAF did not buy the F-14: it is not a landplane at all! ;)
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I'm thinking the F-14 would best stay with twin floats, you'd need a very big single float and you'd still need outrigger floats for stability on the water.
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I like the floatplane F-14 :)
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I'm thinking the F-14 would best stay with twin floats, you'd need a very big single float and you'd still need outrigger floats for stability on the water.
and these outrigger floats would need an orientation system because of the moving wings
(like the pods on Tornados and F111 I think?)
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Because of high position of intakes the Skyhawk seaplane has some legitimacy :)
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another one I had been thinking about for a long time, and recently at a show in my hometown I stumbled upon a classic Frog Gannet for 3 euros ... and I had this other Twin Otter float available.
So here it comes, in blue :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/gannett-s_zpsrtzrue3s.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02188s_zpsmdu36m1n.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02185s_zpsqssjpiwc.jpg)
For outrigger floats, I use drop tanks : I find it looks nice, and it does have some root in the RW after all, as can be seen here :
(http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b591/NA26NA44/ROKAFFloatT-6F1.jpg)
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Oddly attractive :)
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Different take on a Gannet :) :)
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The belly of the Gannet is so big, it seemed it already contained a float, but you are right: propellers' clearance requires a float far lower. Congratulations, engineer, no crash this way.
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Might be interesting to take the Gannet a step further along the lines of the Grumman Duck or the Loening amphibians that preceeded it.
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streamlining the float into the fuselage could look great indeed : someone has to try that ;)
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With a fully faired float you could make the weapons bay open from the sides of the fuselage under the wing and it could still be an ambhib. with landing/beaching gear in the extended float as well as carrying more fuel. :)
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With a fully faired float you could make the weapons bay open from the sides of the fuselage under the wing and it could still be an ambhib. with landing/beaching gear in the extended float as well as carrying more fuel. :)
indeed !
and the Loening or Duck look is so particular, that it would suit the Gannet perfectly!
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This concept was some truly inspired thinking!
I can only marvel at such genius!
Brian da Basher
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thanks for your inspriring appreciation !
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from a very old Airfix bagged kit of the Hawker Demon, I first did a twin-float version by adapting floats from a Letov S-328 (both kits I found for 2 euros each ...), and then, following a forum discussion, I decided to change for a single central float version (also because it offers me the possibility to proceed to one more floatplanization, as you will soon see ;) )
and it does look like a Hawker Osprey indeed ;D
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/demon-s_zps0e4qylxv.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02286s_zpssav3qxwv.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02285s_zpsxxhrrczn.jpg)
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elegant! :D
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Beauty. :)
Reminiscent of the Fairey S.9/30 - TSR.1.
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww1/tsr1/tsr1-2.jpg)
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww1/tsr1/tsr1-1.gif)
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thanks for the info !
I had found an Osprey like this :
(http://www.aviationphotocompany.com/img/s2/v51/p550998815-3.jpg)
and a Short competitor looking very similar :
(http://ww2aircraft.net/forum/attachments/between-the-wars-1918-1939-a/190307d1327166733t-raf-pre-war-aircrafts-short-gurnard-jpg)
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:)
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central single floats are elegant indeed : there is more to come, soon, here !
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central single floats are elegant indeed : there is more to come, soon, here !
Very elegant indeed.
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another one :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/mig15-s_zpsivrniobz.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC02296s_zpsixargzxj.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC02297s_zpswjn3hh3q.jpg)
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:)
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I would have thought a nose air intake is impossible on a seaplane, but here it seems splashing of water would hurt the plane aft, so this nose hole, waterless, is very possible. Thanks!
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A red 'Red' floatplane, very cool 'n different!!
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Mig-15 with float looks "right" not "contrived". Great, never would have expected this result. :)
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Can image a brace of them lined up on the catapults of a modified Sverdlov class seaplane cruiser. (think Mogami)
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thanks all !
I have a few catapults, from Hasegawa kits : I should try to find them in my boxes in order to take pictures ...
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not so much a whiff, but for color maybe, but with floats definitely :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/nh500-s_zpslu7syygl.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02436s_zpss8r1pwzx.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02437s_zpstuvv2wpc.jpg)
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That's a very sharp, clean build!
Your work on the canopy framing is especially nice. The fact you finished it in yellow impresses me to no end. For some reason, yellow is often a difficult color for me to get good results with.
Put a registration codes on it and I bet you could convince people it was real!
Well done, ericr!
Brian da Basher
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I have same impression as BdB.
Is particularly likable.
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thanks!
I must say that I do my painting by hand with brushes, rather worn usually :
I have extremely basic skills indeed, quite the same as when I was an early teenager I'm afraid ;D
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I have extremely basic skills indeed
I completely disagree :( You have a wonderful imagination, and skills enough to make things Real, congratulations...
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a jet float plane again, blue this time :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/iskra-s_zpsqazconrz.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02463s_zpsdlznoc5r.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02464s_zpssa0fd3k3.jpg)
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So harmonious... :-*
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This is the perfect aircraft for flying into the typical Canadian Lake to stay at the Cottage for the weekend. Add skis and we have an all season aircraft. ;D
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Damn, that just looks so right :)
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Dog gone it! Wish I had thought of that!
I didn't think a jet on a float could look so good!
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This is the perfect aircraft for flying into the typical Canadian Lake to stay at the Cottage for the weekend. Add skis and we have an all season aircraft. ;D
that would be amphibious + + ! :) air sea land snow ... what else?
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Damn, that just looks so right :)
What he said.
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Dog gone it! Wish I had thought of that!
I didn't think a jet on a float could look so good!
more jet signle-float planes coming ;)
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Beautiful!! Though I think you might want to move the fuselage a bit farther forward on the float to make sure the spray pattern isn't ingested into the intakes.
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A little bit of spray won't hurt. It cleans the turbine blades.
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A little bit of spray won't hurt. It cleans the turbine blades.
Fresh water, yes, salt water will degrade engine performance significantly. One reason MPA aircraft sometimes get special coatings applied to their engines (for example, the TPE331s used by the MU-2S are a special model with coatings for operating in that environment).
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It's neat how those floats seem to add to the impression of speed of this beauty!
I'd have never thought to add floats to an Iskra, kudos on coming up with such a great concept!
Brian da Basher
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thanks a lot all !
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in order to put all these seaplanes in perspective, I am reconfiguring, at the same 1/72 scale, a Revell (ex-Matchbox) Flower Class corvette (I got it for reanonably cheap on ebay) in order for it to carry 3 catapults (one in each interesting colour). It is a bit cramped, as many ships are anyway, but seems to be possible ...(the one on the right will be put horizontal of course)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC02547s_zpslqtvjfhy.jpg)
especially the jet central float planes can look good on that
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I dont suppose you have a 1/72 Sperm Whale you could cross with the corvette do you?
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no animal crossing this time, but thanks for the idea, who knows ... ;)
finally, it will be 4 catapults : I managed to add a smaller one, from a submarine, on top of the command deck ;D
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02651s_zpsigpr11qh.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02653s_zpsccpbstts.jpg)
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a Sabre on a single central float :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/sabre-s_zpsrepujdu3.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02663s_zpszelibrgy.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02664s_zpsz3bjjyov.jpg)
should look good on a catapult, soon ...
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Very beautiful, thanks for this enjoyment! :-*
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:)
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That poor Flower would need tons of ballast to try to stay upright with that lot aboard.
The RN would comment about a normal Flower's sea keeping ability as "she'd roll to her beam ends on wet grass" so adding all that lot, they'd have to be seaplanes aboard as boy they'd get 'wet' ;D
Nice take on the F-86 floatplane ;) :)
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thanks all !
That poor Flower would need tons of ballast to try to stay upright with that lot aboard.
The RN would comment about a normal Flower's sea keeping ability as "she'd roll to her beam ends on wet grass" so adding all that lot, they'd have to be seaplanes aboard as boy they'd get 'wet' ;D
Nice take on the F-86 floatplane ;) :)
luckily, in whif world the laws of gravity etc are more flexible ;)
so the boat will soon be covered with floatplanes ready for ejection
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like on this preview (colors not yet ready ;) ):
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02681s_zpsnzkbkc39.jpg)
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It's scary how well that central float works on a Sabre!
Paint it gloss blue and stick on your favorite navy's markings and I bet you could convince folks it was real!
Well done, ericr!
Brian da Basher
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thanks a lot !
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an new floatplane : the PZL 39 (with floats coming from a 1/48 MC72) :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/PZL37A-s_zps0uhjfahg.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02712s_zpsbrjdyabf.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02714s_zpsgfbkcsv9.jpg)
funnily, it looks a bit like a Fiat RS14
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Beautiful! :-*
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Love it, may copy it...though maybe not in yellow! ;)
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thanks !
Love it, may copy it...though maybe not in yellow! ;)
please do your own version if the "concept" pleases you!
I personally favour single color, just because it highlights the shapes in themselves,
but I can imagine that a more realistic livery can make it :
imagination combined with making sense can augment the surprise ;D
(isn't that close to the definition of fantastic litterature by the way?)
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I couldn't resist :
while looking for another kit, I stumbled upon a seller whoa also had Hasegawa's Alf with a catapult :
I already have that catapult from the Alf and painted it blue,
and another one coming with Hasegawa's jake, painted red,
so now I just had to have one more to paint it yellow ...
It will come nicely on the Flower Class boat mentioned above, as an alternative to the other ones.
Resistance is futile.
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here it is :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/catapulte-s_zpstomjpibi.jpg)
with a blue Iskra :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02793s_zpsjjnjrqwn.jpg)
or a red HD-780 :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02806s_zpspi9nnmyg.jpg)
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:)
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The red HD looks good on the 'cat' :)
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thanks !
more to come : I could take pictures of most of my seaplanes collections on my catapults ...
all the more so when they will be mounted on the Flower Class ship, whiffed as a seaplane tender !
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(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02860s_zps7fayivvi.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02862s_zpsdhcf9r8z.jpg)
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The Buffalo looks strangely 'right' :icon_surprised: ;)
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thanks ! the Buffalo does deserve a float indeed ;D
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(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02863s_zpsgnjnokbz.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02864s_zps1zwbhdme.jpg)
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Off topic but the angle of the Gannet photo has me thinking about a WWII, Napier Sabre powered, twin float, torpedo bomber, Gannet.
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a twin float Gannett would certainly look good
(actually my single float is a little underdimensioned I'm afraid ...)
please just do it!
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I also have this blue catapult, coming from a kit of the japanese Glen, which could be carried by a submarine.
It is shown here with a Saab 91, yellow :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02865s_zps4hpmwnqp.jpg)
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That looks the same size as a Glen. Nicely done! 8)
I'd shudder to think how many 'G's the catapult would have to produce to get a great fat Gannet airborne :o :o Looks good though on the 'cat' 8)
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Been doing a bit of reading on British battleships and cruisers and was surprised to see just how important float and seaplanes were to the RN plans between the wars. The were requirements for light reconnaissance/spotting (Seafox), long range reconnaissance (Fairey IIIF), floatplane fighter (Flycatcher), reconnaissance fighter (Osprey, later Skua and Roc) and torpedo bomber (Swordfish).
The idea was each cruiser in the force intended to hold the Japanese until the arrival of the Mediterranean Fleet would each carry a number of aircraft and together provide an adequate mix of types in sufficient numbers to be effective. Light cruisers would carry a minimum of a Seafox but the larger ships would have a mix of fighters and reconnaissance types while some would carry torpedo bombers instead of one or more of the other types. The battleships and battlecruisers in particular would carry fighters to defend themselves against torpedo bombers. It was realised that carriers would be more effective but also that due to treaty limitations they would often not be available where needed, hence the requirement for what was basically a fleet unit of a capital ship or two plus several cruisers to be able to put up their own force of reconnaissance, fighter and strike aircraft.
Off topic but pre Washington treaty one option the RN was looking at for operations in SEA was a new large cruiser along the lines of the Courageous class, that, in addition to big guns, torpedos and aircraft, also carried a couple of MTBs (motor torpedo boats) in addition to the ships boats. now that would be a ship and a half, multiple catapults (or at least a midriff one flanked by large hangers) as well as a pair of MBTs on davits.
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thanks!
my intention is still to group all those catapults on the 1/72 ship I showed above in this thread, covered with floatplanes ;D
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That yellow Saab 91 on the blue catapult is so visually appealing that I can't find the words to express how much I like it!
For some reason, I find the combination of colors & shapes very soothing.
Brian da Basher
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Mr. DaBasher, blue and gold is always relaxing ;)
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I'm happy to see my favorite colors consdered relaxing ;)
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a new one, from a very cheap Revell kit, where rivets can be counted :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/tempest-s_zpsv8jyeey3.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02872s_zpsuczpieus.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02873s_zpskmrio6na.jpg)
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Yes yes yes, that is just so right!
Absolutely perfect!
Just need a Typhoon float plane fighter now (that's my cunning plan anyway, I already have a 1/72 Academy Tiffy and a Hasegawa Sea Hurricane Combo pack, wonder where I will get a suitable float from, or should it be two floats).
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That looks fearsomely right!! :) :) 8)
I've this kit built, but mines' a little bit pedestrian compared to yours in it's RAF camo and invasion stripes ;)
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thansk a lot!
a twin-float version would look good too, no doubt
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Gorgeous! :-*
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thanks a lot!
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antoher catapult view : a Rex I made in yellow some time ago
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02898_zpscodd8cns.jpg)
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Whoo Hoo!! ;D ;D Now that's the stuff!!! :) :) :) 8)
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;)
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Have you by any chance done a P-47?
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I like your yellow Rex, like civilan or toy...
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thanx!!
the P-47 is one of the few (should I say that ? ;) ) classics that I haven't floatplanized :
it would look good with floats from the Rex, most probablt!
(also never tried a FW190 for example ...)
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Go for a really different floatplane, a development of the J7W1.
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Go for a really different floatplane, a development of the J7W1.
aha, yes indeed, you are perfectly right, the Shinden is a real and particular beauty, which did not totally escape me ;)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/shinden_zps3wofod9q.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/janvier07%20053_zpsy1mbndb5.jpg)
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Beautiful! while... alomost "normal" for the floating part, but the whole makes a surprizing aircraft... :-*
In Real World, was there canard seaplanes? ???
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Beautiful!! And that main float goes far enough aft to prevent the prop from digging into the water on takeoff.
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That just looks evil 8) 8) 8)
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One of those - never woulda though of that builds.
Works so well. I'd like to copy cat and build one. :)
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thanks all !
Works so well. I'd like to copy cat and build one. :)
please go ahead :) I guess the float must be from a Rufe, and everything fits quite nicely,
so you can try your own interpretation, I would be happy to see it !
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a yellow Cub on a blue catapult
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02899s_zpskmgmdojr.jpg)
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Nice!
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Agreed!! :)
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Awwww... cute!
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thanks all !
I will try and find other small floatplanes in my archive to put on this catapult
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Awwww... cute!
Very!!
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thanks all !
another small one : a floatplanized Goblin
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02900s_zps2xexgkzg.jpg)
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You should throw that back to grow a bit more, it's not quite the full float yet ;D ;D
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The float Goblin is very lovely, thanks for the enjoyment! (I am not a pilot of it, maybe pilots would be frightened about its stability but I love it anyway) ;)
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thanks!
the float is proportional to the length of the aircraft, simply ;-)
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Yes, "logics" may be funny sometimes ;)
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another one from the archive : Caudron 714
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02901s_zpspefwnmc1.jpg)
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well balanced, nice... :-*
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Mmmmmmm..... :-*
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Agreed GTX ;)
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thanks all!
another one, more recent on the red catapult :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02902s_zpsd9w0tshz.jpg)
(floats and tail extension from a Spitfire conversion kit)
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Is there no airframe you won't float?? :o ;D ;D
Very cool mate!! 8) 8)
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Looking good!
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Looks very nice. Quite plausible, too, given Macchi's involvement with flying boats prior to WW II.
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thanks a lot all !
Is there no airframe you won't float?? :o ;D ;D
yes, there are still a few ;) like the P-47, FW190, ... still some potential ahead ;D
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P-47 with floats based on the Sev-3 float variant?
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P-47 with floats based on the Sev-3 float variant?
that would look good indeed !
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work in progress :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02965s_zpsse7au7fq.jpg)
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This build is a blast :)
Looks like nearly done.
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:)
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thanks!
more soon ;)
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a few updates :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02984s_zpsy6d1xzjk.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02983s_zpsvoeswm6p.jpg)
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next one will be a PZL Karas
(a kit by MisterCraft, but it looks so old fashioned thet it might well be a Heller reboxing)
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here it comes, the Karas with a single float coming from an Alf :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/karas-s_zpsxstgdfel.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03065_zpscuyiatqz.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03073s_zps5xshmxj8.jpg)
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:)
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Fuel tanks and floats, cool 8)
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thanks!
using fuel tanks as floats was done in the 50s in korea for a T-6
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using fuel tanks as floats was done in the 50s in korea for a T-6
Indeed:
(http://i1293.photobucket.com/albums/b591/NA26NA44/ROKAFFloatT-6F1.jpg)
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Even if this has been done once in the Real World, I believe that ericr is a genius inventor! ;)
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fueltank wingtip floats are also just convenient for a kitbasher ;-)
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does anyone know a flying boat kit with waterline hull, like it is done for ships?
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None that I know of, most just cut what they need to off :o :o :o :o :o
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None that I know of, most just cut what they need to off :o :o :o :o :o
that is what I am currently doing on some project, but I was wondering ...
I remember that there is this Fujimi Pete floatplane, as can be seen here : one side float and the main central one are proposed in waterline version :
http://www.model-making.eu/products/item_name-382873.html (http://www.model-making.eu/products/item_name-382873.html)
see the pieces here
(http://www.model-making.eu/zdjecia/9/8/9/1471_1_fjm72050_3.jpg)
and the instructions at steps 6 and 7 (B type)
(http://www.model-making.eu/zdjecia/6/8/9/1471_2_fjm72050_2.jpg)
do you know any others ?
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Suitably put back in my box ;), there's one I didn't know, I'll have to go and check my Pete in the stash :)
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so I cut up a 1/48 Walrus from SMER, and tried to fit the hull to a Me 262, same scale (very good fit, sizewise), from Pegasus : here is the work in progress (with wings turned upsaide down to prevent water to come in the engines, of course) :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03075s_zpsa2tliscl.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03076s_zpsuj3tgwjz.jpg)
I guess that is what is called kitbash ... ;)
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Looking good so far
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Thanks for showing unfinished models also (I was feeling guilty showing so slow progress on my models while yours are already finished like immediately without any pain...). Thanks again! ;)
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thanks!
actually, I sometimes show pictures of older builds, an most of what I do is actually quite simple, so I can do a lot ;D
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most of what I do is actually quite simple
Ahem, what is "simple" for a high-skilled modeller like you is "very uneasy" for a "bad-skilled" modeller like me... :( ;)
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my skills have not progressed since I was a teenager (long ago ;) ) but what progressed is
the adequacy between my skills and the way I realize my projects ;D
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Super duper love it. :-*
most of what I do is actually quite simple,
If "simple" is operative word. This is simply brilliant !
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here it comes :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/me262-s_zpsveqvm3wp.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03106s_zpsvzwope1y.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03105s_zpsyknjqpek.jpg)
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I love it :)
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Damn, that looks good! It looks very purposeful.
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I love it :)
So do I! :-*
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thanks all !
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quite finished now, potentially carrying 4 seaplanes at a time ...
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/flowerClass-s_zpsji3pvulf.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03085s_zps7qzn0thv.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03086s_zpsfnh4psdf.jpg)
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a few more sights
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03083s_zps4howrjo5.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03080s_zpsxalvbp7c.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03081s_zps39e2ggmn.jpg)
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a few more pictures, inhabited (by seaplanes, that is) :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02988s_zpsqqbr0ayg.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02986s_zpslmorh157.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC02967s_zps0kootbgm.jpg)
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Nice to see different times on the same ship :-*
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here it comes :
the shapes correspond with a good fit, at any scale,
so this combination can be tried with different liveries (RAF, Lftwaffe, or others) as you like ;D
this is so true that someone else did it!
(https://www.scalemates.com/albums/img/140267-o.jpg)
more here, with a splendid central float canadian version too :
https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=13401&p=albums&album=20279&view=list (https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=13401&p=albums&album=20279&view=list)
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:)
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I would say more: :-*
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:-* in a word, Wow :-*
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I looked at all his builds. Who knew that the Me262 was under utilized.
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his whole series is very impressive !
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another seaplane carrier, a bit smaller this time, adapted from the Graf Spee : it did carry a Ar196, I just added two more catapults, from japanese origins.
(the ship is 1/400, the additional catapults 1/350, which is not too far after all ...)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/grafSpee-s_zps9zrxgkdg.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03321s_zpspffmlbrf.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03325s_zps6pyw2xep.jpg)
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so, I used the lower part of the hull of a 1/48 Walrus for a Me 262 flying boat, and I was left with the rest ... wondering what to do with it ... until I realized that it look nicely plunged into its natural element (well, one of the three anyway).
Maybe it looks a bit heavily loaded, but it floats.
Actually it looks a bit like a crocodile or alligator ...
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/walrus48-s_zpsuansxao7.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03257s_zpsjplxp5mc.jpg)
the build is a bit basic, and side floats were replaced by half droptanks.
But it inspires me for other flyingboat conversions, stealing the lower hull to fit another aircraft, and keeping the donor in a waterline version ... (I have a Sunderland and a Loire 130 in stack stock) ... wait and see
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Surprising
but and nice :-*
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thanks!
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I reused floats from 1/350 MB411 to improve 1/700 Avengers :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/avenger700-s_zpsshkuzsp5.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03308s_zpsrw2emlb3.jpg)
it might be nice to do it in a more detailed scale like 1/72
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I reused floats from 1/350 MB411 to improve 1/700 Avengers :
it might be nice to do it in a more detailed scale like 1/72
These tiny ones are delicious too...
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thanks! ;)
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I think that Graf Spee is one of my favorites of all your work so far, ericr!
The primary colors are a nice way to soften the onus of history and are easy on the eyes too!
This baby would turn heads at any show!
Brian da Basher
P.S. The waterline Walrus is a winner in my book too!
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thanks a lot!
small scales have their charms too.
And I think Iwill try more waterline hull flying boats soon ...
(as a way of making two seaplanes out of each flying boat kit ;-) )
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Maybe I misunderstand your (English) words, but this gives me ideas, thanks! ;)
EDIT: Yes, I did it... floats becoming hulls (or opposite)...
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Maybe I misunderstand your (English) words, but this gives me ideas, thanks! ;)
EDIT: Yes, I did it... floats becoming hulls (or opposite)...
it is a bit different from what I have in mind, but it is impressive as usual! :)
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I got this POMK resin kit, lovely, and made it in yellow :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/loire210-48-s_zps6r1uwca3.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03640s_zpstxcs7buq.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03642s_zpsq6zcqiim.jpg)
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It looks like we both hold a certain aesthetic in common, ericr. I think that's a lovely aircraft as well. While it has a certain ungainliness about it, in total it's actually quite graceful. I find the curve of the tail planes very pleasing to the eye and I like how you finished it in yellow.
Brian da Basher
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Thanks a lot for your appreciation, which I deeply appreciate!
The Loire 120 is indeed a bit weird looking (and its operational carreer was bot a big hit),
but it does have a certain elegance, especially in yellow (to my taste ;) )
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I did not know at all this plane or floatplane.
Google finds no airplane of this name, but confirms this was a floatplane fighter : "le Loire 210, hydravion de chasse catapultable commandé ŕ vingt exemplaires". Have you just changed the color or improved the shape somehow?
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I did not know at all this plane or floatplane.
Google finds no airplane of this name, but confirms this was a floatplane fighter : "le Loire 210, hydravion de chasse catapultable commandé ŕ vingt exemplaires". Have you just changed the color or improved the shape somehow?
aaarrrghhhh ! it made a mistake, and / or a typo : it is indeed a Loire 210 ! not 120 ...
thank you Tophe for pointing it out
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Ups, I did not even notice, it is the great algorithm of Google that translated our mistake into the good number ;)
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I recently found a very cheap kit (3 euros ...) of the An-14, which is a so cute aircraft, and I recently visited the Dornier museum in Friedrichshafen, so I thought I would make up this flying boat, because of the sides of the An-14 which look a bit like that.
The hull comes from a (also cheap) Loire 130, which I do as a waterline hull
(I like to make two seaples out of one ! or maybe even more, because the side floats could also be reused)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/an14-s_zpsgysrk8wb.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03645s_zpsofpfwpfb.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03646s_zpsu0kfvhpm.jpg)
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That's a very attractive little aircraft. Be interesting to see an An-28 (same basic airframe with turboprop engines) done up similarly.
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Great mix! :-*
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You know, that's so crazy it might just work!
It sure looks plausible enough!
Been thinking along similar lines myself lately.
Brian da Basher
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thanks a lot!
an An-28 woul be nice, as several aircraft of that class, with a bit bigger "sponsoons" maybe
and here is the rest of the kit (but for parts of the two side floats, to be used later, I guess ;) )
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/loire130-s_zpsfsgdezqs.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03655s_zpsgjcpxst6.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03657s_zpslum3ji5i.jpg)
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This one goes very well with your similar Walrus, together there are very nice!
an An-28 would be nice
I do not know precisely the Antonov family but I hoped An-28=An-14Z zwilling... but Google showed me the "real" 28, like a simple 14 alas. However, zwilling is good for flying boats, as a twin-hull layout discards the need for auxiliary floats...
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thanksalot!
the A-28 is indeed not exactly 2 x 14 ;)
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I find your approach to these waterline seaplanes very imaginative and refreshing.
The blue is an excellent choice here as it adds calm to the tension caused by all the square lines if the fuselage.
Nicely done, ericr!
Brian da Basher
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thanks a lot!
part of my motivation is simply to make several seaplanes from each single kit ;-)
and also the waterline effect, which is very usual in ships, is a funny thing to try on aircraft
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the waterline effect, which is very usual in ships, is a funny thing to try on aircraft
Do you mean "the fact to build only what is above water"?
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the waterline effect, which is very usual in ships, is a funny thing to try on aircraft
Do you mean "the fact to build only what is above water"?
yes, like for ships kits with "waterline hull"
in my case, the flying boats are a little bit low in the water ;-) maybe loaded with heavy payload
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here is a Mavis (of which I used thebottom hull for something else : wait and see ...)
at waterline level
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/mavis144-s_zpsmvjexpeq.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03832s_zpsvmneromk.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03834s_zpscohznyu4.jpg)
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Good result, once more!
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thanks !
the hull I removed from this one will soon re-appear in a brand new Whiff ...
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the hull of the Mavis went there :
a flying boat version of the LS8-t glider
(1/144 fit on 1/32)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ls8-s_zpsvybyc1do.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03850s_zpsv4gdm8im.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC03854s_zpsid5fzvp6.jpg)
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:)
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:-* (I love "marine-sailplanes" - we say "hydroplaneurs" in French, I think, as hydrogliders?)
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thanks!
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a lovely, very tiny kit :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ro43-350-s_zpsgvyfyqee.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04001s_zpsk2d3kgt4.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04002s_zpsrzxjxsdo.jpg)
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tiny but lovely!
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thanks!
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a truer whiff : I made a twin-float version of the Ro-43 :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04237s_zpszpnzkdtc.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04236s_zpscqao6l32.jpg)
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Cute
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I like it also.
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Cute little thing, does it have siblings in the other primary colors?
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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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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 :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04321s_zpsyibmxo4c.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/il2-s_zpsnklno1zk.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04327s_zpslduqbsia.jpg)
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I think this is the first time I see an IL-2 on floats and it looks fantastic !
:)
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Looking very real, good!
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I think this is the first time I see an IL-2 on floats and it looks fantastic !
:)
Agreed.
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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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thanks all !
as I always say, if you find this inspiring please do make your own version ;)
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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.
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ln10-s_zpsozszay1o.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04389s_zps2hbvsa1l.jpg)
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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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only the red livery is a whiff invention, indeed ; for the rest, reality is sometimes stranger than fiction ;)
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This could be my favorite one yet!
You've certainly captured the essence of those wonderful French designs!
Brian da Basher
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thanks a lot !
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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 :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04503s_zpsbnseq0g4.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04511s_zps3a0w373b.jpg)
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Oh Yea, Oh Yea, :) :)
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This model looks fantastic !!!
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That's awesome! Is that the Sharkit Espadon?
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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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Oh Yea, Oh Yea, :) :)
What he said! :) :)
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Awesome!!!! :) :) :) 8) 8) 8)
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:-* Wow! :-*
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Superb! I love it.
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thank you !
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Like a work of art :-*
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most of the art here is from the comics author Edgar P. Jacobs
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I almost overlooked this crossing, even though I have crossed quite a few Buccaneers and Twin Otters as you might remember from this thread or another ; but finally it occurred to me, and here it is :
the Revell (ex-Matchbox) Buccaneer with floats from a Revell (ex-Matchbox) Twin Otter :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/buccanneer4-s_zpsu4nyj3ds.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04626s_zps39p3btoi.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04629s_zpsb4kursch.jpg)
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Good! :-* No need of aircraft carriers anymore, saving millions/billions Ł (no need of Brexit!) ;)
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Oh my, what a cool surprise. 8)
If gunna build Buccaneer seaplane, thatz the way to do it. :)
Is inspiring to those thinking of a seaplane build.
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thanx !
if you get inspired, please go ahead! I would be happy to see other versions ;)
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Your Buccaneer seaplane is truly a wonder!
I especially like the sharp demarcation of the intakes.
Well done!
Brian da Basher
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thanx!
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Superb Bucc, simple yet powerful, you were the inspiration for my Westland White Shark so keep up the hot whiffing, please. Again, SUPERB.
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thanks again !
I am happy if my stuff can inspire other stuff, please tell me, because sometimes I get inspiration from stuff from others too of course ;D
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this build was first devoid of hull and floats, but was subsequently improved, and consequently moved from
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg117194#msg117194 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg117194#msg117194)
to here, where it now belongs :
1/28 Camel, wooden kit of da Vinci designed wings, hull from an old three masted "Hamphitrite", side floats are fuel barrels from two 1/48 P-61 :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/vinci-s_zpss41ku8lj.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04634s_zpsvxzzqquq.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC04635s_zps4qz8hknw.jpg)
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weird flying fish!
the external floats are not very aerodynamic but at the speed of a bat, there is no problem there... ;)
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thanx !
it is not exactly steampunk ; maybe sailpunk?
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the other half of the three-maste Apmphitrite can be seen there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg118074#new (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg118074#new)
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I have long wanted to do something with a Tracker, and found one (Hobbycraft 1/72),
to which Twin Otter floats were a good fit :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/tracker-s_zpsniknrmta.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05093s_zpsymx9c2su.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05097s_zpsaugu9dqo.jpg)
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:)
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I wish I had thought of putting floats on a Tracker.
Great work. :)
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Man that is a beauty :-*
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thanks all !
I wish I had thought of putting floats on a Tracker.
you still can do it ;)
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Looks Great! About the only question I have is clearance between the floats and the prop arc and how much they can move in relation to each other.
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Man that is a beauty :-*
I fully agree... :-* (no matter details for engineers, prisoners of the material world, as this is mainly a dream...)
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thanks !
the propellers do turn ;) even if they are a bit close ...
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Wow!
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a quick floatplanization, using the single float of a Hasegawa Pete in 1/75
(yes, strange scale, but it seems to be a very old mould, quite unlike Hasegawa usual quality, apparently a re-issue from their very beginnings, maybe for some historical reason?)
fit to a Avia CS-199 (which is basically a twin-seat Bf-109)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/cs199-s_zpsn5moibw4.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05130s_zpsegodacff.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05132s_zpslidqmudr.jpg)
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:)
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Nice build, looks believable :) :)
The Hasegawa 1/75 F1M Pete is from 1962 and is truly awful, see this link;
http://modelingmadness.com/review/axis/j/bakerpete.htm (http://modelingmadness.com/review/axis/j/bakerpete.htm)
They even get to talk to Mr Hasagwa!!!
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:-* Very beautiful... :-*
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Wow that's just beautiful!
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thanks !
the Pete 1/75 kit is indeed prehistoric ;)
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Plausible and beautifully combined; you've another beauty here.
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I like this one a lot! Putting it up on floats was inspired and the ventral fin is a great addition as is that striking red scheme!
Brian da Basher
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this build was first devoid of hull and floats, but was subsequently improved, and consequently moved from
[url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg117194#msg117194[/url] ([url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg117194#msg117194[/url])
to here, where it now belongs :
1/28 Camel, wooden kit of da Vinci designed wings, hull from an old three masted "Hamphitrite", side floats are fuel barrels from two 1/48 P-61 :
([url]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/vinci-s_zpss41ku8lj.jpg[/url])
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I've found its pilot! :)
(http://pre02.deviantart.net/90a8/th/pre/f/2013/325/8/d/batmannoirlowres_by_bumhand-d6v3hpi.jpg)
SOURCE (http://bumhand.deviantart.com/art/Batman-Noir-Batman-415028070)
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excellent thanks ! ;D
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Good red and blue seaplanes. Enjoyed them both. :)
Suspect barrels as wing floats to be problematic. Maybe, thatz a guess.
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I really like the S-199 and CS-199. And this takes it to a new level of coolness. :)
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Depends if there is whiskey in the barrel.
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that is the steampunk aspect : floatation was acquired, but hydrodynamicity still to be developed
;D
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not very whif, but for the livery ;)
but it is a nice kit, and a classic floatplane
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/dave48-s_zpsi9rzovk7.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05227s_zpsqqqdr2ys.jpg)
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Sweet!
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A very crisp, clean build!
I especially like how the red float plane is complimented by the blue & yellow beaching bits.
Brian da Basher
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I especially like how the red float plane is complimented by the blue & yellow beaching bits.
In this Navy, maybe the technician crew is made of clowns... ;)
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thanks !
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Beautiful! :-* The red goes very nicely with the lines of that aircraft.
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thanks, the red fit well indeed !
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I got hold of a (cheap) Italeri 1/48 Skyraider, as well as of a pair of Airfix Ju-52 floats, and their size did fit
(the profiled struts are optional wings end from a (very cheap) 1/24 Harrier for I have ongoing activity ...) :
the color can be thought of as a firefighting floatplane exercise, a role for which some Skuraiders were equipped I think,
and the floatplane relevance was convincingly established by e.g. movies like Planes 2.
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/skyraider-s_zpsxuplpwmt.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05448s_zpsuza4tgyq.jpg)
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I have a 1/72nd Skyraider on the shelf that needs to be remodeled. I think I have the floats for one too......
Cool idea!
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Outstanding idea! :)
Might even copy your idea for a future build.
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Eye popping Sandy 8) 8) 8)
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In the 60's a lone pilot "acquires" a surplus Skyraider and mounts it on floats He makes a questionably legal living flying people and cargo around the South Pacific, no questions asked.....
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:-* :)
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In the 60's a lone pilot "acquires" a surplus Skyraider and mounts it on floats He makes a questionably legal living flying people and cargo around the South Pacific, no questions asked.....
That sounds like a great premise for a TV show or movie series; better than most of the nonsense we see these days.
I love the seaplane Skyraider and the extra fins on the horizontal tail are a nice and believable touch.
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thanks all !
the tail fins are part of the kit : for the naval version maybe.
If you feel like making your own float-skyraider, please do !
I like to see alternative versions of things I do.
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There was a show called Tales of the Gold Monkey (IIRC) where the main character flew a Grumman Goose in pre WW2 South Pacific.
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Just reading this and trying to remember the name of the show that featured a Grumman Mallard and father and son team etc. Open up a new window to google it and there on my news feed is what appears to be a mallard going nose first into a river. The headline is two killed in Australia day plane crash but there were no details on what happened or what the plane was. I change my search and find:
https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20170126-0
Yes it was a Mallard. Very sad for the loss of life, the grief of their friends and loved ones, as well as the shock and trauma for the witnesses but also a little freaky considering I was about to google this exact type when I saw the image of one crashing.
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Always so tragic
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the tail fins are part of the kit : for the naval version maybe.
Well all versions of the Skyraider were naval versions, even though it was adapted for land-based use in Vietnam :P
The fins were actually added specifically to AD-3W and AD-4W versions due to the bulky AEW radome, but for some reason AD-5W (later EA-1E) seems to have dropped them. Standard strike versions never had those.
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Always so tragic
I just saw it too on the internet : tragic indeed
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the tail fins are part of the kit : for the naval version maybe.
Well all versions of the Skyraider were naval versions, even though it was adapted for land-based use in Vietnam :P
The fins were actually added specifically to AD-3W and AD-4W versions due to the bulky AEW radome, but for some reason AD-5W (later EA-1E) seems to have dropped them. Standard strike versions never had those.
ah yes, right : they were compensating the large belly : that's why I thought they would credibly do so for the large floats ;-)
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I have to keep that in mind!
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a quick one, with the classic Revell Cutlass (1/60), fit with Tiwn Otter floats :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/cutlass-s_zps6lemzedo.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05494s_zpstuanjfjm.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05495s_zpsqf71j1fm.jpg)
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It's nice to see one of these built and I like how you attached the floats, eric.
Since I've got one of these in the stash, I found your post instructional as well as easy on the eyes.
Brian da Basher
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It looks like the fastest floatplane ever! :-*
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Dear ericr, will you participate to the Floaty GB http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=69.0 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=69.0) with your next one(s) or do you prefer continuing here? As you want, because somehow you are like "Professional expert" of this subject, while we try to reach half your level... ;)
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Cutlass with floats? :o It's going to be so underpowered that it will fly backwards :P
Joking aside, the floats are like made for her and their placement is also well thought.
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Dear ericr, will you participate to the Floaty GB [url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=69.0[/url] ([url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=69.0[/url]) with your next one(s) or do you prefer continuing here? As you want, because somehow you are like "Professional expert" of this subject, while we try to reach half your level... ;)
thanks for the invitation, I will try to post things on both sides ;)
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thanks all for your appreciation !
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just a modest build from a basic resin kit : a 1/72 Caproni Ca.100
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/ca100-s_zpsqaewauhm.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05529s_zpsk9gkxm6k.jpg)
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there were eggplanes, now there are eggships ; and the best of both worlds comes with egg-seaplane carriers,
like this Mogami from Fujimi :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/mogami-s_zpsshtqcfhx.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05662s_zpsjjlj7b8i.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05665s_zpsh2yfncid.jpg)
there were PE optional catapults so i couldn't resist just adding them up with the plastic ones ;-)
and I moved the crane a bit to make them reachable, kind of.
And it therefore is a whif ;D
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Very cool 8) 8)
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thanks !
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some flowers to celebrate the coming of spring : on the seaplanes side :
this one, being filled with dew, carries floatplane Corsairs (1/700) :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/hybrids/DSC05574s_zpsuapltmo8.jpg)
other ones, with landplanes, are visible there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg122787#msg122787 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg122787#msg122787)
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Taking off from the nectar little lake should be spectacular! :-*
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thanks !
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a nice hybrid in itself, historically built from floats of a Ju52 : this is the russian 1/72 kit
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/tornado72-s_zpsbxweaxux.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05688s_zpsmo2theio.jpg)
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That would look cool painted up in 'race' colours. ;)
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Wonderful! :-*
(I imagine it would be an ekranoplane or flying-thing, but it seems there is no curvature of the flat part, so no lift, so this is a boat, yes?)
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thanks !
it was designed as a torpedo boat by the germans, so no flying, but still they did it from floatplane foalts ;)
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Loving the boat, er, boot, all good but that is the cream of the crop. Your imagination must be on full overdrive. Keep it up. ;)
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thanks ! my imagination here was essentially the color the design is from the real world, and the kit from Micro-Mir ;-)
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a lovely kit :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/i19-s_zpsdf1af79a.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05672s_zpssr67jlqo.jpg)
with an easily detachable waterline option :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05675s_zpskdl4ge9u.jpg)
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a lovely kit :
uh? is this Out Of the Box aspect? (does this exist?) or invention of yours?
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a lovely kit :
uh? is this Out Of the Box aspect? (does this exist?) or invention of yours?
it is RW! (except for the colors ...) the kit is by AFV
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Very nicely done. At least you painted the "Glen" yellow instead of the submarine (I know that would be a temptation with the Beatle's song out there). The colors go together well in the paint scheme you did use.
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thanks !
I occasionally paint submarines yellow, but not always indeed ;D
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this one is OOB (Special Hobby), but red :
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/he51b48-s_zpscepjujb1.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05727s_zpsoaxjo0o9.jpg)
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:)
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Beautiful finish! And the glossy red really suits the He 51 :)
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thanks !
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Neat! :)
Marco approves.
(http://www.animeclick.it/images/serie/PorcoRosso/PorcoRosso7.jpg)
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;D
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Some time ago Tophe produced this marvelous conception :
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/P38eclairQ_ea_zpswlvas5iv.jpg)
and I couldn't resist trying it out in plastic, and in yellow :
the curved wings are a bit sketchy, it was uneasy to obtain;
maybe the best would have been to bend the original wings by heating them, but that seems delicate ...
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/p38h-s_zpsisgm7xto.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05767s_zpsr6v6glsm.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05770s_zpsvuerp28r.jpg)
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I really wanted to see this one in plastic,GREAT JOB !
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:-* So wonderful... I feel happy and greatly honoured... ;)
Could you tell us more about the curved external wings? Is this paper with plastic pylons Inside to make the shape almost solid? Or what? (if this is not top secret)... :)
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thanks !
the external wings are made of curved blister packaging, with two layers of thin plastic sheet to make them smooth;
so they are not very solid, rather a bit flexible ;) but the hold!
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Wonderful! Flexible wings may be patented and could transform you into a billionaire! (if that works, scale 1)... :-\ ;)
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:-* wow!
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:D
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The Wyvern has such a particular silhouette, I wanted to have a try at it.
It took the folded wings option of the Trumpeter kit (very fine),
but this hides the lines a bit ...
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/wyvern-s_zpshnafyvyu.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05818s_zpsjolsjem3.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05815s_zpskoftdr2n.jpg)
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Wow! :)
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Now that is exceedingly gorgeous!
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With these folded planes it doesn't look like an aircraft but a powerful hovercraft or something (for visiting the Everglades?)
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:)
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thanks !
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Loving the wyvern, red suits it so well too. Brill.
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thanks again !
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I had found a few 1/700 catapults, IJN and USnavy, and had to find :
-1- a support : the 1/720 Hipper looked fine, and added an Ar196
-2- catapultable stuff : that is 1/700 He60s
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/catapulte700-s_zpsohr4fhtv.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05825s_zpsg8y0bu7v.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC05827s_zpszzx8frid.jpg)
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Nice floatplane support concept, there.
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With that color scheme, it seems perfect for duty in the arctic or antarctic. It also makes me think of the Tin Tin books I loved as a boy. Nice memories and an even nicer model!
Brian da Basher
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With that color scheme, it seems perfect for duty in the arctic or antarctic.
Yes it looks like a village in Norway: bright colours to change from the boring snow/ice that is too much white...
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As much of a floatplane cruiser as there ever was. :)
Impression of a serious SAR ship.
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thanks all !
long live seaplanes ! ;D
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you may remember this 1/72 Tornado
a nice hybrid in itself, historically built from floats of a Ju52 : this is the russian 1/72 kit
([url]http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/tornado72-s_zpsbxweaxux.jpg[/url])
I also bought (at sales price) the 1/35 kit, but was stopped by the intuition that the huge floats could be used for a big plane (kitbashing at 1/72 ...), and then I had to invent something not to spoil the Tornado kit ... and an idea came to me, which enabled me to use some of my stash at the same time ... with a sketch of a whif story :
At the end of the war, when the germans were trying out their Tornado, there was a shortage at Ju52 floats, so they had to replace floatation support. There was however a good supply of cheap dinghies, so the solution consisted of an assembly of sufficient quantities of dinghies to support the cabin as well as the jet engine. Maximum reachable speed remained undocumented though.
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/tornado35-s_zpsmzxcvss9.jpg)
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC06141s_zps3h1miffy.jpg)
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I hope those dinghies are lashed tightly...
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as noted, at reasonable speed (subsonic) it might go well ;D
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Another beautiful product of your inexhaustible fantasy!
I love the red version more than the blue one.
Antonio
PS the Wyvern is beautiful as well
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thanks!
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the nice thing about forums like this one, is that you get replies that come from a different angle,
and that sometimes brings ideas you wouldn't have had yourself
So recently I was suggested to think about trying a flying boat space shuttle ...
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/pontoons35-s_zps51cfv6ww.jpg)
it obviously has cargo capabilities
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC06217s_zpsbhsmea3h.jpg)
especially with its rear ramp
(http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/y435/ericr63/hyd/DSC06216s_zpstxqvqfqf.jpg)
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:-* Converting in some "impossible" way is an opportunity to become billionaire, I hope you will, ericr, you deserve it (as long as 'impossible' is concerned)... ;)
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Another imaginative creation of yours, ericr!
I like it!
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:)
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thanks all ! ;)
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In case you didn't know, SSTO capable flying boat space shuttles are actually a thing in Jerry Pournelle's CoDominium universe: the reasoning being that when CoDominium Marines need to make planetfall on a habitable world, they can do it even if there is no runway available (whether it's in enemy hands, bombed to craters, or doesn't even exist), even if this rules out inland landings and requires mild sea state. Also, being flying boats means that the shuttles can be HUEG (so that the Marines can bring all their heavy equipment along) without caring for things like ground pressure (well, you then need deeper water to land them instead of shallows, and getting things to beach from the shuttle might become an issue, but there you go).
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And there you have it EricR ... your imagination is both world class and you are owed royalties by Jerry Pournelle ;D
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thanks for the reference, I didn't know it : any pictures?
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thanks for the reference, I didn't know it : any pictures?
To my surprise, I actually found officially commisioned art for such!
http://alangutierrezart.deviantart.com/art/Warworld-Codominium-Codominium-Takeover-318783711 (http://alangutierrezart.deviantart.com/art/Warworld-Codominium-Codominium-Takeover-318783711)
The illustrator has even more art set in the same universe, too: http://alangutierrezart.deviantart.com/gallery/40681668/Warworld-Codominium (http://alangutierrezart.deviantart.com/gallery/40681668/Warworld-Codominium)
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thanks for the link : amazing imaginations !
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Hi there, I'm back
(well, the stream of picture paused, but not the building, so a burst might occur; I am testing imgur here)
here is a Frog Spirit of Saint Louis, fit with floats from a Willow :
(http://i.imgur.com/EZ7O7cY.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/Z6UVJhG.jpg)
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Very nice! :)
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:)
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:)
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thanks !
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Nice!! Perfect for further explorations after the trans-Atlantic flight.
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I agree the model is nice, but for exploration one would need more visibility/viewpoint I think ;)
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thanks again !
the windows/cockpit are from the original : sometimes reality is strange ;)
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Those floats look like they belong on that bird! Love your choice of red too.
Great stuff eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks again !
and now for something a bit different :
a 1/48 Rufe with twin floats (borrowed from a MC72)
(http://i.imgur.com/3nfbQzG.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/tfgliAB.jpg)
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My mom would've loved this one. Yellow was her favorite color.
Brian da Basher
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Looks like that god awful Aurora Zero kit box artwork :o :o
Great work Ericr 8) 8) different to see a Zeke on two floats, kinda a Japanese Arado ;D ;D
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I like.
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thanks !
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and where did the Rufe float go? well, under this specially lean
single float MC 72, blue :
(http://i.imgur.com/m71CGyF.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/k8lDZvl.jpg)
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I like this one very much, eric! Going with a single float makes it look even faster!
You should consider entering this beauty in the the Retro-Futuristic GB (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=72.0). Call it a 1920 Schneider Cup concept racer.
One of your best yet!
Brian da Basher
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That looks great Eric!
Lovely
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:smiley:
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Gorgeous!! It really looks the part.
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That looks HOT!!!
450knts just standing still!!!!
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thank you !
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Call it a 1920 Schneider Cup concept racer.
That would be more like 1930. ;)
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Ooooh, but that is gorgeous! :-* Very pretty indeed!
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Beautiful and performing... :-*
You should consider entering this beauty in the the Retro-Futuristic GB ([url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=72.0[/url]). Call it a 1920 Schneider Cup concept racer.
That would be more like 1930. ;)
Yes, this was futuristic at that time, please ericr join me in this GB where I feel all alone (with August holydays of the Northern hemisphere?)... ;)
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thanks again !
Beautiful and performing... :-*
You should consider entering this beauty in the the Retro-Futuristic GB ([url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?board=72.0[/url]). Call it a 1920 Schneider Cup concept racer.
That would be more like 1930. ;)
Yes, this was futuristic at that time, please ericr join me in this GB where I feel all alone (with August holydays of the Northern hemisphere?)... ;)
ok, I will not leave you alone there ;D
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You did it, thanks!
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you're welcome !
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I was tempted into this after seeing on the web a profile of a twin float Lysander :
(http://i.imgur.com/1bBEQG7.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/DK2A3kt.jpg)
the Lysander is 1/48, and the floats from a 1/72 He115
(I first tried floats from a 1/72 Twin Otter but they looked too thin after all)
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Nice! I've always had a soft spot for Lysander, and the floats suit her well.
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thanks !
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Wait a little: these float-spats needs judgement of our spat expert BdB: genius or else heresy? ;)
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Looks good.
I was tempted into this after seeing on the web a profile of a twin float Lysander :
Would it be the one shown in this thread: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4079.msg64318#msg64318 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4079.msg64318#msg64318)
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Looks good.
I was tempted into this after seeing on the web a profile of a twin float Lysander :
Would it be the one shown in this thread: [url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4079.msg64318#msg64318[/url] ([url]http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4079.msg64318#msg64318[/url])
ah yes indeed, thanks for the link !
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Love the twin-float Lysander but your single float MC 72 is very sweet :smiley:
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thanks !
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It is spat heresy I say!
Seriously though that Lysander ended up one lovely bird!
I like how you're able to put your own unique twist on such classics, eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks for you appreciation ;)
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So I had these two kits of tha Tornado, jet powered boat, made from Ju-52 floats : I made the 1/72 kit in blue, and for the 1/35 one, I transformed it into a dinghy-based contraption. And thus I could keep the huge floats for ... this (with a Heller 1/72 Connie, and thinking of the beautiful italian Cant Z.511):
(http://i.imgur.com/FoQzgCU.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/eb3X5qu.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/lBlOHJA.jpg)
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Oh yeah!! :smiley: :smiley:
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thanks !
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Eric, it seems as though others are following your style:
(http://avia.pro/sites/default/files/styles/news_photo/public/yakovlev_ut-1.jpg?itok=1tMFGB83)
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good news : it confirms it is a nice style ;D
by the way, where is this ?
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by the way, where is this ?
Technical Museum of Vadim Zadorogny, Il'inskoye shosse 9, Arkhangel'skoye (see here: http://www.tmuseum.ru (http://www.tmuseum.ru))
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Brilliant work, just luv the connie. Shame about the photobucket situation, spoils the collection.
More more more.
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by the way, where is this ?
Technical Museum of Vadim Zadorogny, Il'inskoye shosse 9, Arkhangel'skoye (see here: [url]http://www.tmuseum.ru[/url] ([url]http://www.tmuseum.ru[/url]))
thanks for the link !
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Brilliant work, just luv the connie. Shame about the photobucket situation, spoils the collection.
More more more.
thanks a lot !
it is a pity about the past photos, I have to see what can be done,
but anyway more is coming :smiley:
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Once again, a magnificent "wish I'd thought of it" model!
It's interesting how natural those floats look on a Connie too.
Love the yellow, eric! You always seem to pick the best of the primary colors to fit the subject.
Brian da Basher
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thanks again !
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after using its floats for the Lysander, I still wanted to do this He115, so here it is with waterline floats
(of an alternative shape which was briefly experimented, therefore the plane was painted red during the test taxiings)
(http://imgur.com/cio33px.jpg)
(http://imgur.com/h6qsZ8F.jpg)
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Recently I was suggested that a Mosquito would look nice on floats, which I had not yet thought of ;
So I found one, the nice old Frog glass-nosed kit, and fit Twin Otter floats :
(http://imgur.com/MN64BDM.jpg)
(http://imgur.com/lQPVQ49.jpg)
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Two super duper seaplanes :-*
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:smiley:
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The Mozzie looks like a prototype, how about G-FAST as a civvy rego? :-* :-*
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Wow that Mossie looks great on floats!
Well done!
Brian da Basher
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thanks you all !
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this is a Whif in the box, from Hasegawa : I just revised the livery ;D
the floats are a buit small, but in the anime where this comes from, they seem to suffice ;)
(http://imgur.com/RvdJef0.jpg)
(http://imgur.com/KNlRdq2.jpg)
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If you think of them as skis instead of floats, I think this one works remarkably well.
Great stuff, eric! Keep 'em coming!
Brian da Basher
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If you think of them as skis instead of floats, I think this one works remarkably well.
My thoughts exactly
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thanks !
they look like skis indeed, but the animated movie pictures I saw show that it floats : whif laws of floatation for sure ;D
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also out-of-the-box, but slightly re-coloured : the I-400 seaplane carrier submarine, in egg-style fashion :
(https://imgur.com/ArvORBS.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/gyZvl12.jpg)
(they came by two in the box)
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a seaplane related picture : a glass brought back to me from Japan
(https://imgur.com/FmQm0Vb.jpg)
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Cool
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Tempted to get its matching one:
(https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDk5WDQ2NA==/z/PdAAAOSw7ZlZniyH/$_58.JPG)
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Tempted to get its matching one:
very lovely too indeed ! more whisky oriented I guess ...
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Well, I have been known to partake in the odd scotch... ;)
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:smiley:
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this anime movie seaplane is really lovely (even if I haven't seen the movie at all),
and the kit is very nice, and molded in yellow plastic, whuch I liked so much that I chose to leave it as such,
with just two little touches of blue and red, respectively
(https://imgur.com/JRe6FL9.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/78DpEqR.jpg)
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Geez ericr... I think we must be best buddies! I was just looking for this kit. I saw it on the shelf a couple of weeks ago, but it seems to have disappeared.
I actually just started watching the TV show Future Boy Conan and I quite like it. You can definitely see Hayao Miyazaki's touch.
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we definitely share some tastes ;)
I got this kit from hobbylink Japan, the low cost shipping is quite ok
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cartoon aircraft are funny and unreal, even if you build them without any change, this is good! :-*
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Looks like a very small Boeing Pelican WIG test vehicle ;)
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Ericr, which kit is this exactly? I thought it was the Aoshima one... but that one is grey styrene (and more detailed) I believe. I'm curious which one this is...what scale?
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it is an Aoshima kit, in 1/72
this one (although the small pictures show grey plastic ... maybe there are different versions of the kit?)
https://hlj.com/product/AOS00945 (https://hlj.com/product/AOS00945)
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Interesting. I've only seen the pictures of the kit, so I assumed the styrene was the same. I'm going to keep a lookout for this one.
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whif just by the livery, but its shape with jet engines above the fuselage is remarkable enough ... ;)
(https://imgur.com/yl0GtDe.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/1XLYmlC.jpg)
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Which kit?
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beautiful!! Which kit did you use and what scale is it in?
You need to do two more in the other primary colors, the yellow one as a SAR aircraft and the red one as a fire bomber.
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Great looking beastie 8) 8)
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Nice...... :smiley:
USN markings ?
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USN markings ?
I prefer like that, without nationalism... ;) :-*
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thanks !
other colors may fit well indeed ;) please have a try :
it is the Amodel 1/144 kit
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Nice! :smiley: The single colour helps pull the shape together, making it look even sleeker than it already is.l
Idea: a plane like the Beriev, but built from BAe 146 bits.
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Well done. Always liked this aircraft.
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thanks !
I like to paint monochrome, because precisely it makes the shape even more appreciable
and kitbashing BAe 146 certainly is a good idea ;)
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That's really sweet, love the blue!
Brian da Basher
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My guess is an Amodel kit? It looks so very lovely in plain blue!
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thanks !
yes, AModel 1/144
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that's a really nice gloss finish you have there. I know a few people who would love to be able to obtain a finish like that
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it's just Humbrol enamel blue 14, from the tin ;)
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I saw some pictures of an Anson floatplane in South Africa, so was lead to have a try at it :
(https://imgur.com/8RaHRxZ.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/mJsLJP2.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/m9PD08l.jpg)
the kit is from Special Hobby (a bit too high quality for my skills) and the floats from a Twin Otter
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That's different 8)
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thanks !
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Great idea - I can see this sitting in a river in Sth America or perhaps around an Island in Asia
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Great job Eric! And those Twotter floats look much better than the original! There's another 1/72nd take on that SAAF conversion on Britmodeller using Frog Seafox floats (although the modeller acknowledged that 35 Squadron's Anson had Blackburn Shark floats.
I've seen mention of Směr, Ark, Eastern Express, and Chematic Sharks on floats. Does anyone know if these are based on the Frog/Novo kit?
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thanks again !
I think these Shark kits are all the same indeed, I have had one sometime ago
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I really like the look of your floaty red Anson, eric!
You did a fine job on all that canopy framing too! Takes a steady hand, no mean feat that!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
the canopy was painted manually indeed ... ;)
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I was reminded of this old build, modestly trying to upgrade a Superfreighter to a flying boat
(https://imgur.com/YuCOFJV.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/vkWm52A.jpg)
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:smiley:
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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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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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thanks !
at that time I had thought of the Tradewind indeed!
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one more picture of this old build, wth 1/72 cars, Minis, appropriately, and in appropriate colors too
(https://imgur.com/CD8Qtcs.jpg)
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Anson and Superfrieghter are great :smiley:
Like how/that you made flying boat connection to Superfrieghter and then built it.
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thanks !
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Loving the freighter, what a superb idea, tempting, very tempting.
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please do surrender to temptaion ! ;D
you would certainly make it something different, I'd love to see it ;)
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From my archive, done quite a while ago, recalled by a discussion on another thread, and relevant to this thread :
(https://imgur.com/Bf1T2LY.jpg)
and another one, also Tophe inspired at the time :
(https://imgur.com/9tBY9xH.jpg)
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Wonderful seaplanes. :smiley:
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thanks !
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I clap my hands here also, as these models deserve a double dose of clapping hands! :-* :-*
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;D
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once again Tophe-inspired :
(http://www.kristofmeunier.fr/Mc72Z_b.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v670/Tophe2712/Mc72Z_c_zpskeqrhovh.jpg)
but with some transformations and a translation to 3D.
Here it is, the M.C.72z :
(https://imgur.com/iBz5QxV.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/KWsmGqb.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/XyvgOaX.jpg)
with, this time, a few WiP images :
(https://imgur.com/p0Ud97o.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/j1zHYfj.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/Kn87koY.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/P1WPq6G.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/jLGYSIQ.jpg)
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That's seriously different, very well done!!! 8) 8) 8)
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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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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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Love it. :smiley:
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One badass high-speed hydroplane! :icon_killbill:
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:D
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a Hasegawa Mu-2J, with the floats from an An-2 :
(https://imgur.com/MLqOUOh.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/ztK5M2f.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/EHQkoHX.jpg)
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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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Looks like should be out there doing transport duties. :smiley:
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That looks . . . . right, nicely played 8) 8) 8)
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thanks !
I thought about the landing gear bulges indeed, but did not use them finally : maybe for another project ? ;)
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:smiley:
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thanks again !
another blue one, a Type 10 triplane (Mitsubishi 1MT) by UPC in 1/50, with floats from a 1/48 MC72
(https://imgur.com/8cO7a1a.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/hmTMoBC.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/I4DzhAX.jpg)
I just found out that it did exist after all : not completely a whiff, but still a bit (different floats, and propeller ;D)
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww1/1mt1n/1mt1n-6.jpg)
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww1/1mt1n/1mt1n-7.jpg)
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/bww1/1mt1n/1mt1n-5.jpg)
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:smiley:
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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.
Essentially the same as on the Twin Otter floatplane.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Vancouver_to_Victoria._West_Coast_Air_De_Havilland_DHC-6_Twin_Otter_floatplane.jpg)
Paul
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;)
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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.
Essentially the same as on the Twin Otter floatplane.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/Vancouver_to_Victoria._West_Coast_Air_De_Havilland_DHC-6_Twin_Otter_floatplane.jpg)
My understanding is that the Twin Otter and the MU-2 were the two aircraft primarily supporting the drilling efforts on Alaska's North Slope; something about the two aircraft having the best short field performance available. That the MU-2 is pressurized helps considerably.
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That the MU-2 is pressurized helps considerably.
I understand that engineers focus on serious subjects like pressurized air, but as aircraft models are for me only a hobby, I love simply the beauty of this MU-2 Float, no matter if it can be sold or not... ??? :icon_crap: ;)
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it's about a boat, and wings ...
(https://imgur.com/B4Qhrtx.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/5aFYDgv.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/kyBSIeA.jpg)
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I was surprised the landing gears of this amphibious craft seem not retractable, but I know how it works: this is pure dream and to move from water to land, back and forth, you just need to dream strongly, and miracle wheels are there or away, simply ;)
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Brilliant concept to use vintage sailing ship hull. :icon_surprised:
Give me ideas.
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thanks ;)
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What is length and wingspan ?
Fascinating to contemplate larger sail ship as multi engine flying boat. Hmmm.... W.I.G. ?
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approx. 25cm x 25 cm : depending on your ship kit, you may find appropriate wings ;)
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For our English-speaking friends: 25 centimeters = 10 inches. ;)
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For our English-speaking friends: 25 centimeters = 10 inches. ;)
Err... only a minority! Those of us in everywhere except the USA are metric...and even many in the US understand the metric system.
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it's about a boat, and wings ...
(https://imgur.com/kyBSIeA.jpg)
Eric this is absolutely fantastic! I'll keep it aside as a great idea to get inspired from...
8)
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Display's basics of the term - "flying boat". Brings out the "boat" part for all to see clearly. :smiley:
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;D
please be inspired, and make something else out of it, I am happy to see ideas bounce here and there on their own trajectory
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... Those of us in everywhere except the USA are metric...
Or measurementally bilangue ;) Great concept ericr :smiley:
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thanks again !
a bit less whiff : a Sunderland in waterline
(the hull was cut to be used for another project ... wait and see ...)
(https://imgur.com/gFV1RbV.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/WKESyaW.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/53mEsPb.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/I0QYTbh.jpg)
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I like your waterline Sunderland a lot, eric and blue seems an ideal color for it!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
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Alright, good job, like the effect. :smiley:
Not thought about it on seaplanes. But otta.
With two partial (past half done) 1/72 gunboat builds been considering cutting them and new ones at water line. Be best for eventual archipelago diorama display which built dedicated 12x22 backyard building for. Cutting seaplanes and ships like this does up many chances to botch the whole build. A decision not to be taken lightly.
Your success with this plastics surgery commendable.
Sunderland in water look is unusual and cool. :-*
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a flying wing flying boat, inspired by this :
(https://photos.smugmug.com/SeaplaneAmphib-Inspiration/i-JgrJnc6/0/b376bba4/XL/Boeing-flying-wing-flying-boat-XL.jpg)
using a 1/200 YB49 in the stash, and also a 1/48 MC72 :
(https://imgur.com/uOk41my.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/8vM0SAR.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/M08akZY.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Boeing's source was for Pan'Am Airlines, comprehensible, while your one seems a 2-seater, so mysterious so nice (for unknown reasons)... :-*
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I agree with Tophe!
Beautiful idea as always!
AnDonio
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Appreciate your building this. :smiley:
Is like sub-scale proof of concept seaplane for 1/72 build using B-2, B-35 or B-49 wing. Couple fuselage choices come to mind.
Had to start somewhere and this build using 1/200 wing is it. You done well !
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thanks !
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That's fantastic eric and strongly suggests lineage from the famous Bel Geddes' airliner #4:
(https://static1.squarespace.com/static/513a4f5ae4b0c1b51a663865/t/53ef67c3e4b0439bf8d26ed9/1408198596113/)
Great stuff!
Brian da Basher
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thanks for the picture : mine can be sees as a kind of prototype for that ;)
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a Shackleton, with a Sunderland hull and sidefloats, in red :
(backup story, to explain the colors :
as the conversion work on the prototype was ready, only the new parts were painted red anew,
leaving the original airframe in its original, slightly worn, red finish :-\ )
(https://imgur.com/JxonwXs.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/O4mWWWh.jpg)
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Dang,,, that took careful plastic surgery. Is super :smiley:
Have to fuss much with fuselage width adjustments ?
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Looks like a Russian prototype, maybe it's just the red paint :)) :))
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thanks !
Have to fuss much with fuselage width adjustments ?
not too bad : I covered differences with styrene sheet, which is simple enough for my skills :
(https://imgur.com/W486ek0.jpg)
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I really like the difference between the weathered parts and the non-weathered ones.
The yellow beaching gear sets it all off very nicely too.
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
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:smiley:
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I covered differences with styrene sheet
Thanks for revealing us your "making" secrets... ;)
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you're welcome : I have "discovered" the use of plastic sheet only recently, and it does have nice possibilities,
and is quite simple to use ;)
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you're welcome : I have "discovered" the use of plastic sheet only recently, and it does have nice possibilities,
and is quite simple to use ;)
"only recently" -- you handled it like a long time plastic sheet journeyman. :smiley:
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thanks ;-)
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A He 162 Salamander flying boat
from a 1/48 Replica resin kit, and one float from a 1/48 MC72
There have been other builds of this concept before here and there on the web :
mine is a bit more sketchy (and the original resin kit was a bit rough)
but quite bright in color ;)
(https://imgur.com/zMa2dJo.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/gNcqLLb.jpg)
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Now that's very cool, well done!!! 8) 8) 8)
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Very cool and very nice, indeed!
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Sweet!
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This flying boat is THE explanation of the He-162 weird layout, thanks! (the jet is above the plane not to swallow water splash) ;)
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This flying boat is THE explanation of the He-162 weird layout, thanks! (the jet is above the plane not to swallow water splash) ;)
Yes,,,, a natural for flying boat conversion.
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Like the concept on this one :smiley:
Mog
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thanks !
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All brilliant, you have some remarkable concepts there. The Sundershack/Shackeland is very realistic and the waterline Sunderland? Just begging to be made a land plane.
8) :-*
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thanks !
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quite out of the box, a bit simplified, and in yellow :
(https://imgur.com/OfaiY3U.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/Go4RzQ7.jpg)
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quite out of the box, a bit simplified, and in yellow :
...and really nice actually (http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/41.gif)
PS-Ohhh,I missed that floaty Salamander,great job Eric (http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/111.gif) (http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/emoticons7/113.gif)
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thanks !
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She's a little yellow beauty, eric!
Well done!
Brian da Basher
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The float Under the tail is so rare a feature that this real aspect looks what-if... ;)
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thanks gain !
the tails float is a curiosity indeed, but it really happened in the very early float planes :
maybe we could imagine what if it had continued being used in more moder floatplanes? ;D
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small is beautiful, but this is very small :
the Trumpeter 1/350 Loire 130
(https://imgur.com/gE6WH6s.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/nyUJ4pd.jpg)
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Small is indeed beautiful and I love your little Loires!
Great stuff, eric!
Brian da Basher
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:-* How many centimeters make this tiny 1/350 scale? (knowing the hard time I had with the 1/200 kit of OS2U)...
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thanks !
they are a bit less than 3,5 cm long ... ;)
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same scale, but a tad larger :
the chinese SH-5
(I already made a yellow one some time back, so only blue and red this time) :
(https://imgur.com/ZXp4Jyl.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/1YXZgCo.jpg)
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Not too big at that scale... ;)
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;)
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another small one : just repainted from a pre-built miniature :
(https://imgur.com/gOYmbSE.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/gqzRRGK.jpg)
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Model 212 with floats?
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the floats were added by me, using some aircraft pod from my spares box, so they are whiff ;)
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so they are whiff ;)
And "very whiff" means "very good"! :-*
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the floats were added by me, using some aircraft pod from my spares box, so they are whiff ;)
Ah, I know they are a real world option on various Huey models. You did a beautiful job of modelling them. (Brian would love the little-used tricycle gear option for Hueys, absolutely gorgeous spats).
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spats ? waahh ! ;D
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I hadn't tried that one yet :
(https://imgur.com/1XKxus3.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/xEDT0Si.jpg)
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:-* "Thunderfloat"? ??? ;)
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Nice!!
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Oh yeah! :smiley:
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thanks !
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One of my favorites of yours yet, eric!
I really like the contrast between the prop and the all yellow everything else.\
Brian da Basher
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That's better, WhooHooo 8) 8) 8) 8)
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;D
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a lovely tiny I-16 in 1/144 from zvevda, with a central float from a 1/350 Loire 130 and side floats from a 1/350 SH-5
(https://imgur.com/qCdbuFU.jpg)
and, yes, catapults (from the Kingfisher 1/200 kit, thanks again Tophe ;) )
(https://imgur.com/Xd2lmbs.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/c9kCncw.jpg)
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Putting an I-16 on floats is sheer genius, eric!
The paint work is great too! It really give the sense of a well-used aircraft.
I like the shots on the catapult too! I think the red one is the most pleasing base.
Brian da Basher
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P-47 & I-16 are surprising yet correct looking. Nailed em both. :smiley:
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:smiley:
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Great scale-o-rama invention, you, genius! :-*
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thanks !
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Great scale-o-rama invention, you, genius! :-*
+1
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:smiley:
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hey, long time no see on this thread ... time to start back
here is a floatplanization of the Whiteknight 2, the shuttle being meant for landing only (take off is done with the main carrier floatplane)
(1/144 Revell, with 1/72 Twin Otter floats, and on the shuttle the hulls of a 1/350 SH-5 and two 1/350 Loire 130)
(https://imgur.com/YWON82p.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/pDf7atQ.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/ezdgjPh.jpg)
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Beautiful!! PE\erfect for staging launches from locations without suitable runways (sometimes you need to be at a particular point at a particular time to manage a "least-time" ascent to an orbiting platform).
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thanks for confirming the relevance of he design ! :D
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oh, and so the hull came from a 1/350 SH-5, which I finished as a waterline flying boat :
(https://imgur.com/NGKinEb.jpg)
(maybe a bit deep in water : overloaded?)
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Very nice!
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Nifty. Looks great done as waterline.
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thanks !
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the wing floats from the 1/350 SH-5 were not left unused : the now adorn this Me163
which take off on wheel, and comes back on water using the hull from the shape of its fuselage,
and the side floats for stability :
(https://imgur.com/JxB12Dh.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/fBvlccW.jpg)
it is a 1/72 Heller kit, with the tractor
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With the wheels dropping off on takeoff, this makes a whole lot of sense. Beautiful little beastie, isn't it?
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indeed ;)
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I like your use of primary colors. Adding floats takes it to the next level.
Brian da Basher
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That's almost real-world! There was a red Me-163 (briefly).
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yes, red on a yellow tractor ;)
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not quite so whiff, but for the livery of course, and anyway the looks of the He119 make it a near-whiff :
(https://imgur.com/8PGNlJC.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/7W0iKvO.jpg)
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another floatplane, hardly whiffed : it is in blue
with open doors
(https://imgur.com/NYJ7iZf.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/EvtKQbC.jpg)
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I always enjoy your sea planes, eric and you seem to have a real talent for choosing the perfect primary color for them.
This one is very easy on the eyes.
Brian da Basher
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thank you !
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a bit more whiffed :
this Skoda D.1 (a Dewoitine licence)
has floats from an Albatross W4
(https://imgur.com/3Pto6N2.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/bRdBS85.jpg)
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Looks good up on floats and the yellow is set off nicely by the black prop.
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
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That just looks right. Bravo!!
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thanks again !!
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I bought this kit just to go for combined shipping and make it less in average, not really knowing why (you pobably know what I mean)
but then suddenly I remembered about the Twin Otter in my stash, and well, the floats are a bit small maybe, but still ...
(https://imgur.com/BSpZXV8.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/b1zQjyf.jpg)
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Now that is cute!!
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Looking good
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thanx !
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Eric, I love the latest updates, my favourite in the late bunch is the red He 119...
8)
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thanxalot!
the He119 is not very whiff, but would deserve to be ;)
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the Yak-53 has a sympathic look, it deserved a floatplane version
(in 1/48, floats from a 1/72 Twin Otter)
(https://imgur.com/WCs5yn3.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/FgVjwkT.jpg)
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This one looks very sleek and speedy, eric!
Red is the perfect color too!
Brian da Basher
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thanks ;)
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Quite looks the part as an attractive little aircraft.
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;)
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I love it :smiley:
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I liked that one, maybe because of the name? and finally got it :
(https://imgur.com/nLYpOTq.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/sI9yzSC.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Nice!! That yellow works well, there.
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Nice!! That yellow works well, there.
Concur with our esteemed resident engineer. I especially like that the cylinder block is gray which compliments the black prop blades and is set off nicely by the yellow.
Another one that's very easy on the eyes. Well done, eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
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I was thinking of this classic for a while : a Fieseler Storch,
floatplanized (actually it seems it did exist in Real World, somewhere in ex-Yougoslavia)
(https://imgur.com/QsgfYSW.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/jIZE8aZ.jpg)
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Looks great in red and if you added either those Yugoslav markings or just some registration codes it would be in the running at any model show worthy of the name.
Brian da Basher
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Your last three models are all very striking! As BdB says, a reg number would make them fit in anywhere. I was just imagining a white stripe down the side of the two in red. Just my two cents worth.
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Very nice!! I agree with the above two gentlemen.
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I have plans for similar...but not in red ;)
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thanks !
you can of coure use the color you like (or even several ;) )
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not exactly a whif : this version of the Puma has inflatable floats :
from what I understood it is rather an emergency water landing device, not meant to take off again.
In 1/32 it is big, and I was tempted when I found it for cheap.
(https://imgur.com/CI37s4d.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/f6Cp764.jpg)
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Nice!!!
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This is very nice, eric, very nice indeed!
I like the different colors and adding the flotation bags was inspired!
Brian da Basher
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;)
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a landplane version of the MC72, I thought, deserved to be given a tricycle gear :
(https://imgur.com/9XyfYyO.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/oQ6kepE.jpg)
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Hehe...cute little flying bugs ;D
Interesting,Macchi on wheels (https://usefulshortcuts.com/imgs/yahoo-smileys/113.gif)
Great job Eric :smiley:
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That's some great, imaginative thinking, eric! Looks a natural for tricycle gear!
Most excellent! I always enjoy your fantastic projects!
Brian da Basher
FYI I moved this since it's not one of your hybrid animal/vehicle models.
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thanks !
FYI I moved this since it's not one of your hybrid animal/vehicle models.
well, it is a hybrid between aircrafts, and not a seaplane anymore whereas the other topic is about seaplanes
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That's some great, imaginative thinking, eric! Looks a natural for tricycle gear!
Wow, that is very cool! As BdB said, a natural for a trike gear ... which would also help heaps with forward visibility on take-off and landing :smiley:
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Very nice, I'm glad you didn't overdue the detailing; considering the floats and struts, as well as the wings, contained radiators for the cooling system, replacing them on the fuselage side would be a chore.
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:smiley:
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tempting, given a cheap 1/48 kit of this so cute plane :
(https://imgur.com/qXShFyM.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/nZg4Dnu.jpg)
floats are from a MC72
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This blue beauty isn't a what-if, it's a should've-been!
Outstanding, eric!
Brian da Basher
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Now that is just beautiful. And I do agree with Sir Brian's comment.
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Nice one
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thank you !
the I-16 has something of itself ;)
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:smiley:
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recently Tophe reminded me of the Dornier racer project :
(http://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/AE/AE72-7/47-1.jpg)
which reminded me also of the Levasseur PL 201 :
(http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/other1/pl200/pl200-1.jpg)
and I had a Breguet 693 in my stash, as well as floats from an An-2 Colt (and an additional engine from a Ju-52) :
(https://imgur.com/NnReke5.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/hEYeeCs.jpg)
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That looks great Eric !!! :smiley:
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Beautifique!!!
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That is a great looking floatplane! Looks very French.
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thanks all !
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That's a wonderful engine configuration, eric.
Brian da Basher
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thanks again !
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Been traveling getting set up for Fall-Winter model building. Not seeing all posts.
These have great character. I-16 looks correct RW. 693 based build has cool uniqueness. Like to copy concept if ever had time to. :smiley:
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thanks again again ! ;)
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So, Ihad this incomplete vacform kit pof a 1/72 Do-X : I got it very cheap because the wings are missing.
So I searched for appropriate alternative wings, and the 1/48 B-17F (Revell) has the very same wingspan,
so here we go 'but still, vacform os not easy, quite a bit beyond my skills)
(https://imgur.com/ID20Y6s.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/5UhrSSb.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/U5DcP6X.jpg)
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This combination looks great. Perfect scale-o-rama.
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That's a most excellent kitbash eric and once again, you've chosen the perfect primary color for it.
Very well done, very well done indeed!
Brian da Basher
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Most excellent kitbash and quite the looker in that color. My only quibble is that the inboard prop arcs look disturbingly close to the cockpit. Even if they don't hit structure, the noise level for the pilots has got to be intense.
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thanks !
the propellers do turn, but are quite close indeed ;)
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IMHO, there have not been enough triplane flying boats, so I add this one :
(https://imgur.com/wRPq7Y3.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/tfpdXQy.jpg)
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When I first saw the subject line I though perhaps you meant “Shrek” as the ogre from the movie! I though to myself “Now what has he done?” While I was mistaken your triplanes looks great and very believable!
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this one is based on a Schreck FBA 17, but you are giving me ideas ;D
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Now that is just pretty; beautiful, even.
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Now that is just pretty; beautiful, even.
One of eric's best yet and a fantastic combination of layout/primary color.
:smiley: :smiley:
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
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Do-X & B-17F is way cool. 8)
Comes together so well !
And hey,,, world did need a tri-wing flying boat. This be the one.
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the Loire 46 has nice gull wings, and landing struts : it deserved floats
(https://imgur.com/ipGfVsj.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/i5He9Uv.jpg)
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That looks so good! It’s a natural fit.
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That's very nice :smiley:
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Did that all come together or what !
Every strut and everything else in its proper place. :smiley:
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That looks so right. Beautiful combination!
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A few more photos would be great!
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thanks all !
by popular demand, a few more views :
(https://imgur.com/HbScC5e.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/87c35yE.jpg)
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Looks so 1930's floatplane racer. :D
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That’s nice! Thanks
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the Loire 46 has nice gull wings, and landing struts : it deserved floats
Indeed ... excellent visibility for landing a float-fighter. Lovely build! :smiley:
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thanks !
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I think I heard someone say something about a P-47 with a float like a Duck ...
(https://imgur.com/XDyZ165.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/bb7ybz5.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/RTVJw8c.jpg)
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That's a great combination and truly inspired using the Duck's floats!
The primary color choice is yet another winner too.
Brian da Basher
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Almost looks like a Curtiss Sea Hawk float plane, nicely done :smiley:
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Now, in one aircraft, two great Long Island aircraft companies work together!! That's beautiful in concept and execution and looks far better than the amphibian version of the P-47's progenitor, the SEV-1 (and way less draggy).
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I'm loving it! ;D
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thanks a lot !
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the Do-24 wings and tail went elsewhere, but the hull has its potential :
(https://imgur.com/fP8qCP9.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/KwbGb6S.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/U5vTY1y.jpg)
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That's simply wonderful eric and one of your smoothest, crispest builds yet!
A perfect primary color choice, too.
Brian da Basher
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That looks so right and so plausible. I could just see that actually happening.
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thanks ! :smiley:
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Firebomber, I’m telling ya!!!!!!
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... but the hull has its potential
It does indeed! That is very tasty :-*
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thank you
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just got these small lovely kits :
(https://imgur.com/R3I1JCQ.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/AaaAA0f.jpg)
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Those are lovely indeed, eric!
What a treat seeing them in all three primary colors.
Brian da Basher
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Are those the new Trumpeter 1/200 kits? Were they molded in clear? They look good in primary colors.
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yes indeed, they are in clear plastic, not as small as 1/700 or even 1/350, so it is a nice intermediate
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more 1/200 cuties
(https://imgur.com/8q91D5k.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/xltno7i.jpg)
all in clear plastic, but the cockpit is a metal etched frame :
so cusiously no part of the clear plastic is modelling glass.
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Wow I'd never know there weren't any clear parts if you hadn't told me.
Very cheerful eric. Most enjoyable indeed.
Brian da Basher
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more tiny seaplanes :
(https://imgur.com/EulbpTt.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/r9XjY8y.jpg)
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Nice clean build in 1/200. :smiley:
Is prime for glue and paint gotchays. Don't see any.
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Beautiful!! Very nice builds.
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Double that! Looking gorgeous in those primary-colour schemes :smiley: And the canopy frames of those Ar 196s were painted :o
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cheating a bit on the title, but not quite : the SB-17 does feature a boat, and is flying :
I feel it could have been a what-if ;)
(https://imgur.com/3PZUBHq.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/iZSrZOp.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/Jo1UdyF.jpg)
and there are other airborne rescue boats around : a nice source a true-er what-iffs, maybe ...
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Now that's just plain beautiful with a gorgeous high-visibility paint scheme.
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;) it is about rescue after all ;D
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I like this one a lot, eric! It's gotta be in my top ten of yours!
The primary colors you selected for the different components are spot on!
This somewhat floaty Flying Fortress would turn heads at any show worthy of the name.
Well done!
Brian da Basher
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the hull and floats come from a Martin Marlin ...
(https://imgur.com/9AcqSds.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/RHMHgwH.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/CusbFq7.jpg)
and I tried to position the side floats in a soviet-stylish way ;)
amongst other adaptation details ...
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Wicked! :-* :smiley:
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Wicked! :-* :smiley:
Exactly my thoughts on first seeing this beauty.
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thanks !
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That's great eric! The beaching gear and ladder totally make it pop!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
that detail added a touch of colours as well ;D
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Very cool! Love the crew door and inverted intakes :-*
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not so much a whiff, but for the floats attachment and shape (they're from a An-2), and livery :
(https://imgur.com/WvR47Fe.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/aZUYHT6.jpg)
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That's got a fantastic Amelia Earhart 'Fokker Friendship' vibe about it. Red was the perfect primary color choice.
Great stuff, eric!
Brian da Basher
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Now that is a gorgeous model. I could see something like that operating where the color would help it be found in case of trouble, perhaps summer bush plane operations in Alaska or the Canadian far north.
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That Fokker's very nice ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;) ;) ;) ;)
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thanks a lot !
a closer view
(https://imgur.com/TRQuHI2.jpg)
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Fokker looks so well balanced and correct proportions. Great build. :smiley:
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could be done in 1/72 or even 1/32 actually, but here it's small
(https://imgur.com/NdRpzqD.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/2axSdKG.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/GeEYv2d.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/C82KX3t.jpg)
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Pretty little things!!
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And great float gear swap-a-roo :smiley:
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thanks again !
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the Saab 21 has some elegance, and I had a DHC Otter in my stash ...
(https://imgur.com/mL9dPUX.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/RV4SqOP.jpg)
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Definitely YES !!!
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Nice :smiley: With the Saab's twin tail booms, it's easy to imagine a development with semi-retractable floats ;)
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Nice :smiley: With the Saab's twin tail booms, it's easy to imagine a development with semi-retractable floats ;)
That would look wicked.
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Most delightful, eric! Yellow is the perfect color for this wonder.
Brian da Basher
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Gorgeous!! I could see an improved version with struts down from the twin booms and eliminating the struts between the floats.
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thanks !
I agree with the proposed : please do it ;)
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That's very believable, well done :smiley: :smiley:
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Natural and practical given Sweden's shoreline and lakes. :smiley:
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I agree with the proposed : please do it ;)
Lead me not into temptation :icon_meditation:
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;D
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I found this 1/60 ready-built figurine (NewRay) and added floats (from a 1/72 Twin Otter);
I nearly painted it blue, but its original colors only required a red complement
(https://imgur.com/JonYqMA.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/0gEoRrI.jpg)
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Beautiful!! And just the thing for spraying aquiculture operations when needed.
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One could use it for restocking: https://youtu.be/W_FqeWPSnDQ
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Nice call on the colors, eric. The floats look like they were made for it.
Brian da Basher
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;)
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Looks "right" :smiley:
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Indeed! In this scale-o-rama, are the Twotter pontoons proportionately bigger than the usual Air Tractor float gear? If so, perfect for a Fire Boss upgrade :smiley:
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thanks !
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Indeed! In this scale-o-rama, are the Twotter pontoons proportionately bigger than the usual Air Tractor float gear? If so, perfect for a Fire Boss upgrade :smiley:
They don't appear to be bigger.
(http://www.clavework-graphics.co.uk/aircraft/air_tractor/AT802_Croatia_1.jpg)
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a flying boat conversion
(using a Canadair)
(https://imgur.com/zarL6HH.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/cSifB32.jpg)
(I am trying to decrease my stash ...)
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Nice -- Does make C-130 into nifty flying boat. :smiley: Kind of build I would like to do.
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Nice -- Does make C-130 into nifty flying boat. :smiley: Kind of build I would like to do.
Concur but yours would no doubt be in USN blue!
Another fantastic flying boat, eric! Most excellent!
Brian da Basher
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Very nice. I would posit, though, that flipping the engines to over the top of the wing would reduce spray ingestion.
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Ooh that works, Looks good !
Mog
>^-.-^<
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thanks !
I did flip engines in other projects, it would have been spectacular here too indeed
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Always loved C-130 seaplane conversions, and this one is well done. I remember one being in the Resident Evil: Code Veronica game, and seeing the idea in other places too. Always felt like a 'should have been' rather than a 'what if'.
I much prefer the 'flying boat' style like this than the 'floatplane' ones.
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any aircraft can be improved by fitting floats
(https://imgur.com/K9IWkiG.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/SGiiHoy.jpg)
(these floats come from a Glen E14Y)
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The yellow's a winner, eric!
Great stuff!
8)
Brian da Basher
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Strange combo yet it works well. :smiley:
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;D
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Looks great!! In that color, it definitely looks the proper race aircraft.
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thanks !
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the other half of the hull used for the Hercules :
doing a waterline flying boat is a bit of a cheap trick (especially as it appears too deep in water, as if overloaded),
but it's fun
(https://imgur.com/NFZPt02.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/WAlluLz.jpg)
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That's going to be a long takeoff as it looks quite overloaded. A beautiful waterline model, there.
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in my 1/200 vein, I try to make the maximum from the Trumpeter sets I got :
so I re-used Walrus fuselages and hulls as floats for this and another single floatplanization
here with a Zvezda Li-2
(https://imgur.com/qK4o584.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/NWYBLwZ.jpg)
maybe next time, in a subsequent life (or at next sales promotion),
I might try the twin float version (which light be slightly more convincing, buoyancywise)
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Very nice and it looks quite speedy with that single main float. I do agree, though, that a twin-float version would look more stable at rest.
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the companion to the previous :
(https://imgur.com/bDC4MXd.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/tQlRMBy.jpg)
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Another looker!! Again, the single float does make it appear speedier, but I suspect twin floats would be more stable on the water. I don't think I'd want to turn too fast or two sharply with just the one float, it looks like you could have a prop digging into the water, though I'll grant you this means less with three engines, but still...
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stash reduction continued, with waterline flying boats 1/350, and seaplanizations of two basic 1/144 kits ...
(https://imgur.com/TcymVZt.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/eZAjkFH.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/p08eY0e.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/oFZUA7Z.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/ok9Dwmk.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/oun2TGg.jpg)
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Add a wide range of basing possibilities to those stealth aircraft. All of these look good.
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I really like those waterline models, eric and once again, you nailed the color selection!
I also really like the yellow F-19 and the paint makes it look like it's seen a bit of service.
Great stuff!
8)
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
the F19 kit is just not as nice as the F117 ... and the paint did not hide defaults
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The F-19 actually looks better as a flying boat than the baseline kit (which I'm already fond of due to nostalgia). :-* Even the deeply recessed top intakes, otherwise borderline useless, would finally make sense, they're that way to keep water spray out since the hull is otherwise quite low in the water ;D
And then I started thinking a converted Ohio class submarine carrying flying boat F-19 or two on their back... ???
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The F-19 derived one reminds me a little of the AvPro Marauder:
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4568/38172939151_a65e619e37_b.jpg)
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Whoa GTX, that is super cool 8) 8) 8) 8)
Are there any other drawings etc of this concept ??
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I have a CDROM of the AvPro concepts here somewhere. You can also see a lot in this book:
(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41HHRBS03ML.jpg)
In the meantime, there is this:
(https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-PwFo-uDCybQ/Wm6ejLGFpzI/AAAAAAABhSQ/EEnKiMgevicE3kNaIlexcgmsz6nwsu_yQCLcBGAs/s640/grd6yhq.gif)
(https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IVr4qKX1MK0/Wm6eilgU7PI/AAAAAAABhSE/2ebAXcjPuXIg1ky2kp0CaCZBd51H2iktwCLcBGAs/s640/gmwoaa9.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vuGBI0PXgi8/Wm6epLNyNGI/AAAAAAABhSc/m38gx_18eYsRik9JwcVoX-6oDXruE67VgCLcBGAs/s640/nvz0pby.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mnhf2owXej4/Wm6epfBlPUI/AAAAAAABhSk/RYp8C3kjenQJa0C-zbvP-5SLnIxVCoJ9gCLcBGAs/s640/qkwgwkj.jpg)
(https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQqc4s0Z1Sw/Wm6eimQof3I/AAAAAAABhSI/QaY7nKzrvjoActYb5yd7YtIHVrhKv7DswCLcBGAs/s640/cauba7p.jpg)
(https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BnLS2MALmns/Wm6eoq7SiTI/AAAAAAABhSY/MS2C0MMZnEEcAAjz35XpEUC9inWFNnMPQCLcBGAs/s640/juccsla.gif)
Someone also did a nice scratch build of one a few years ago:
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXrsKzpXkAIcAnI.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXrsJlvWkAEjVyv.jpg)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DXrsMN9X4AEf_EE.jpg)
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Whoa!!! :icon_surprised:
What a spectacular Whiff build, thank you for the pics GTX, that got some creative juices going 8) 8) 8) 8) ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Good old AVPRO, nabobs of vapourware. ;D :icon_fsm:
I think they must have found a warehouse of leftover RLM napkins. ;D
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some time ago I did a SB-17, with a rescue boat, hence a flying boat litterally.
Then I found a conversion kit for the SB-29, but in 1/48 : it was not easy to find the 1/48 B-29 cheap ...
So I opted for a 1/48 Ventura, looking close to the Hudson, which had a rescue boat version ...
(https://imgur.com/md0UCUW.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/M9QBT2P.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/VW6XHS3.jpg)
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Beautiful!! I suspect landing with the boat still attached would take some finesse, but that does not detract from a beautiful model.
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I like the colors.
One of your best yet, eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
I cheated a bit with the length of the rear gear to make it plausible ;)
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I cheated a bit with the length of the rear gear to make it plausible ;)
That works for me. It's not like that's not been done before.
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I made another one, with a Stirling I received as bonus when buying other kits, and a suitable boat I had to find
(https://imgur.com/ezs6K60.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/2m0lP2J.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/apfXwuA.jpg)
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Beautiful!! Quite believable, too; I could see Stirlings being re-purposed like this as they were replaced by more modern bombers in Bomber Command.
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small is beautiful : 1/144 i-16s with floats from 1/200 i-16s
(https://imgur.com/USsnnXb.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/VwBOeN0.jpg)
and
(https://imgur.com/oojWTwd.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/MMmHBnE.jpg)
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Photo looks 1/72. Extra nice for 1/144. Black accents add a bunch. :smiley:
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Beautiful little gems.
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thanks !
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The I-16s look great! Are those the Zvezda ones?
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yes indeed : a neat little kit
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I found a kind of diorama for my 1/200 seaplane kits in the form of a (half-price, at the time ...) 1/200 kit of an oil rig platform, which It transformed into seaplane support platform, with two catapults and cranes :
(https://imgur.com/OPKAL8p.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/CreMSvx.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/pWpEeh7.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/Ia7ApXb.jpg)
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I like this one a lot, eric. It's so busy you could almost get lost in it and looks entirely plausible.
Brian da Basher
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thanks!
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Beautiful and plausible!! I love it.
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Swell repurposing with cranes, catapults, and all them seaplanes. Complexity of platform is lot to take in. :smiley:
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Thanks again !
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in the last times I did quite a few quite big kits (which I found for quite cheap)
but here is something very small (so small I had to simplify it a bit):
1/700 Seafox (with folded wings version ...)
(https://imgur.com/jR50bK0.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/veOCVm1.jpg)
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Cute little models!
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Cute little models!
They are indeed.
Most delightful, eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
more tinies, also with folding wings, from the same kit box :
1/700 Walrus
(https://imgur.com/Y5ixYcY.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/K8fl8xU.jpg)
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Look real good yes. Look to good to be 1/700. You sure about scale ?
I am struggling with air group for 1/700 Mega-Carrier. Again,,, these look to good.
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thanks
yes it is 1/700
in the kit there were even metal parts for the struts but that was too small for me, I skipped them
(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/9/5/0/1014950-27767-64-pristine.jpg)
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Pity, those Flyhawk 1/700 scale aircraft are something special, there's even an excellent YouTube build by Plasmo, the Walrus and Seafox are brilliant when the PE is used.
The small parts are why I use a Loupe magnifier so I can do them.
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a 1/48 A-10, with a 1/72 Canadair hull and floats ...
(https://imgur.com/DHvfehG.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/wxQRD18.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/XY58Jox.jpg)
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Certainly have lot of kit-bash concept insight when looking over kits. :o :smiley:
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It's got a very Soviet flavor to it. Slap some red stars on it and few would question it.
Well done, eric!
Brian da Basher
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It's got a Luft'46 feel to it as well.
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Beautiful!! I agree with Brian and GTX, it does have those feelings to it, perhaps a Soviet development of a Luft46 effort that never made production, or perhaps never made it to prototype status.
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a plastic interpretation of a Tophe creation :
just a F82 cockpit on a 1/48 MC.72
(https://imgur.com/N236AOQ.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/BuX3NSI.jpg)
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Now that looks dashing, in several senses of the word. If it wasn't for all the radiator detailing required, I'd be very tempted to try that kitbash myself with period markings (either Italian or of an aircraft sold to the US - big fight between USAAC and USN over who gets it could add to fun markings).
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thanx ;)
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Sweet! :smiley:
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Fantastic use of that F-82 canopy!
Brian da Basher
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That's really pretty. :-*
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thanks again !
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hardly a whif, because there seems to have been plans for this, but still ...
(https://imgur.com/1BCwQhD.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/3hfswzD.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/2x0rkcC.jpg)
floats are from a Seafox
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Whiff ?????
Which bit isn't ??? :-\ :-\ :-\ :-\
Very weird and cool 8) 8) 8) the French sure knew how to design "fugly" aircraft ;D ;D
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;D
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hardly a whif, because there seems to have been plans for this, but still ...
Very nice ... especially with those swoopy Seafox floats :smiley:
The RW planned floatplane version of Br.27 was the 1929 Br.29 project. (I'm not sure why the number change, the French of the time usually just added an 'H' for hydro to the original designation.) Do you know if the Br.29 was planned to have a cockpit canopy?
Unfortunately, the Br.29 variant is hard to research online ... 'BR 29' was also the short-form for the escadrille n° 29 (GB II/11, 11čme EB[/i]), a bomber-recce unit flying Breguet 19s out of Metz.
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hardly a whif, because there seems to have been plans for this, but still ...
Very nice ... especially with those swoopy Seafox floats :smiley:
Concur! I don't know if it was planned or just luck but boy do they work well on this build!
Brian da Basher
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thanks again !
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I was looking for a Jetstream for a while, because it looks good ;
and in order to whiff it without disturbing the good looks, floatplanization seems fine.
(https://imgur.com/ZnADNo9.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/fNdUhse.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/1S7KgAP.jpg)
It is the old Airfix kit, with nice ambulance interior,
with floats from a Trumpeter Colt
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Beautiful!! Though, if you do another one, I think the engine inlets should be flipped over to keep them out of the spray.
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thanks !
I see your point, I could have tried that ...
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@EricR - Great idea with the floats, looks like a back country bush plane delivery aircraft. Give it DHL markings and it might fool some folks not in the know. ;)
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Very nice eric, looks like it was meant to be!
Brian da Basher
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thanks again ;)
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Sizing of pontoons to Jetstream looks correct to non-engineer me. Good eye for another good combo. :smiley:
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The Jetstream looks great as a float plane, well done :smiley: 8) kinda like a Nomad or Twin Otter 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
The engines' intakes would need to be flipped over to the top of the nacelle to prevent water ingestion ;)
Although to the engineer in me the floats do seem too far forward for the CofG of the waterplane and the fuselage to align ::) I fear it would have a rather wet tail when taxiing or at rest :icon_surprised:
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Oooo ... might have to steal that idea ;)
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;) ;) ;)
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a B-45 with the floats of a Cant506z
(https://imgur.com/IaTM8vM.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/yEJl11F.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/kyw5BVW.jpg)
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Brilliant combo 8) Looked at B-45 in stash couple days ago. Never would thought of this. Be USN B-45.
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Brilliant!! Early effort at a sea-based striking force for the USN?
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I like the look of this red beauty and how the floats compliment the nose and engines.
Paint it blue, slap some stars 'n bars on it and few would doubt it.
Great stuff, eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks !
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this one has ingredients from (at least) 3 kits : can you recognize them?
(https://imgur.com/pJOIcEM.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/Eo8aDpI.jpg)
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Focke Wulf 190D, IMAM Ro. seaplane (??) and Swordfish wings . . . . . . maybe ;) ;)
Regardless it's a very cool looking Whiff mate 8) 8) 8) 8)
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@EricR - The DC-130 Drone Launching Pylon really works as your main support pylon for the float.
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Dora, Gladiator, and ... ?
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yes, a Gladiator,
with an engine from a Ju188 (I guess the same engine as some FW190)
and a float from a Norseman
and two small floats from a Duck
and indeed a pylon from a DC130 : I am very surprised this one could be recognized ! ;D
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and indeed a pylon from a DC130 : I am very surprised this one could be recognized ! ;D
Some things just jump out at you like that DC-130 Drone Pylon. It also helps that I have two of the Italeri 1:48th scale DC-130 kits in protective custody. :smiley:
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my dc-130 will soon come out, a bit whiffed, of course
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my dc-130 will soon come out, a bit whiffed, of course
Of course! :smiley:
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this one has ingredients from (at least) 3 kits : can you recognize them?
(https://imgur.com/pJOIcEM.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/Eo8aDpI.jpg)
Beautiful, but I can't help but wonder if the tail surfaces need to be farther aft for weight and balance purposes.
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Some how some way says 1930s James Bond to me. :smiley:
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Some how some way says 1930s James Bond to me. :smiley:
Nailed it.
Another winner, eric!
Brian da Basher
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thanks
with a quite similar floatplanization arrangement :
(https://imgur.com/3ddDyx6.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/plgQMDC.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/rxKpYG5.jpg)
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OUTSTANDING! It looks perfect as a float plane.
I may have to try this with one of my Monogram T-28 Trojans and the float from the OS2U Kingfisher.
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:smiley:
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thanx !
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That Trojan looks so, so right!
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thanks again !
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(https://imgur.com/a1bwxhI.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/sPHMSCi.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/ucJavZK.jpg)
from an idea by Tophe
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Now that is the best looking amphibian I have seen in a long time! Excellent combination of parts. Goal!
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That's just inspired! :-* Utterly brilliant!
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That's just inspired! :-* Utterly brilliant!
Absolutely, brilliant kitbash :-* :-* :-*
Mog
>^-.-^<
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:smiley:
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That jus' "works" don't it :smiley: :smiley:
Twin Mustang with Grumman Duck floats an' gear, well done :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
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What all the others have said, that's just purely inspired with a beautiful aesthetic appeal.
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What all the others have said, that's just purely inspired with a beautiful aesthetic appeal.
That says it.
How ta heck did you think of / come across this configuration ?
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I would have never thought of that! Brilliant! Crazy and cool!
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thanks !
as I said, inspiration comes from a picture by Tophe I saw some time ago
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And you've done a masterful job on this hommage ŕ Tophe! First rate :smiley:
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asymmetric floats for the asymmetric BV141
(https://imgur.com/Rz8eXZi.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/K3uVjiU.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/NcPlUpW.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/L4gYJJY.jpg)
floats are from a 1/48 Rufe
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Looking at BV.141 kit last weekend wondering what could be done with it. Now here it is, you show us. :smiley:
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Inspired and beautiful!!
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thanks !
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Cool! :smiley:
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Love it :-* And you're continuing the tophe theme :smiley:
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There is no way that should look that good :o brilliant work 8) 8) a real eye opener mate :smiley: :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:
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;D
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from ye olde Frog kit, lending itself nicely to floatplanization (with support from a, also old, SMER 1/72 MC72)
(https://imgur.com/ReroUGL.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/xCZM0qY.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/IPjzKCA.jpg)
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Beautiful!
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Amazed by how well those Macchi floats work with the Barracuda! Nice work :smiley:
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:smiley:
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thanks !
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Excellent Ericr 8) 8) 8)
The Barracuda looks great as a seaplane :smiley:
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a biggie :
(https://imgur.com/LBCtMxk.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/wQLj0B9.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/HySsnqY.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/FMZKQHh.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Gee wizz,,, inspiration for BV222 in stash. :smiley:
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That is outstanding :smiley: 8)
Mind you the outboard engines may have a bit of a water ingestion problem ;)
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;)
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That is outstanding :smiley: 8)
Mind you the outboard engines may have a bit of a water ingestion problem ;)
Water injection?
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Water injection?
;D ;D
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;)
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Beautiful!! And the inverse build should be just as striking.
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Beautiful!! And the inverse build should be just as striking.
visible there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg172172#msg172172 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg172172#msg172172)
in my other thread, since it is not a seaplane ;)
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it is tempting to use 2 Ducks for a twin-floats
(https://imgur.com/xkLZNWs.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/qMUDbHS.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/ev4fr8w.jpg)
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Damn, that looks spot-on!! Beautiful!
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That is awesome! How in the world do you think of these creations!
You must have a huge stash or a hobby store next door.
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;D
I do have a stash with some stock : I buy quite cheap kits from ebay e.a., so I have a choice to find matches that work ;)
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:)
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Especially head-on, your EC145 'pod' makes it look surprisingly modern while absolutely 1930s retro at the same time! Nice :)
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thanks !
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a single floatplanization
(https://imgur.com/vPsLN9A.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/WYrNatE.jpg)
using a Kingfisher
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My goodness, that's a natural.
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Beautiful!! It looks so right.
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thanx !
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Very nice! Going by the C. XI-W, Fokker would have probably used twin floats with a small forest of struts :P Yours is much cleaner :smiley:
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I had the idea for a long time, so finally got around it
(with Seiran floats)
(https://imgur.com/l43iOSh.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0Kw14iO.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Cute! It looks quite plausible at first glance.
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thanks !
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so I found another cheap kit of the He111z, just too tempting
and I plunged into my stash to find appropriate flying boats
(and it is asymmetric)
(https://i.imgur.com/mCGTCQm.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WP1OpbT.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/AcAlwIp.jpg)
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Definitely has Blohm and Voss feel to it!
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well, someone had to do it, no?
(https://i.imgur.com/0xR5qzv.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/nutKyEg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/mbHhXDr.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0tR7m4y.jpg)
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Now I am wondering what will become of the other clog?
The brush that the wings is attached to might also make an interesting subject without the clog. An aircraft supported by hundreds[too many to count] tiny legs would be a very interesting study of an alternative to wheels or skids/skis.
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;D
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Now I am wondering what will become of the other clog? ...
Waiting for the other clog to drop? Brilliant - and wonderfully twisted - stuff Eric :smiley:
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Designed to operate in high sea states ?
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;) ;D
it was a single clog, a fake tourist souvenir, with a brush, so I have no second one ;)
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Now I am wondering what will become of the other clog? ...
Waiting for the other clog to drop? Brilliant - and wonderfully twisted - stuff Eric :smiley:
Oh, that's almost Carl worthy...
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simply with good old UH-19 floats
(https://i.imgur.com/gtJ4tLO.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hzdPxQW.jpg)
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Interesting combination of helicopter parts and it looks quite convincing. :smiley:
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Very nice! The only quibble I have is that the floats should have the forward mount farther forward to pick up the structure for the Black hawk's front landing gear.
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The only quibble I have is this should be built in 1/1 scale!
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1/1 is a bit too voluminous for me ;D
and the front strut is at the level of the vertical support of the front wheel actually ;)
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following from my other thread http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg177875#msg177875 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg177875#msg177875)
but this is a seaplane, so belongs here
(https://i.imgur.com/2LGjRhB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vCGDVVq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/9gnt38y.jpg)
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By golly this combo also works fine :smiley:
With R4360s and those hefty props this Sunderland would takeoff-climb like none other :smiley:
Good for Japan '46 GB.
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Looks most purposeful!! I'll bet those big props would throw up a lot of spray on takeoff.
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;D
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let us proceed with mixups
(https://i.imgur.com/bfVPLxY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aWazkkD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/lthYdVf.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Now that is just plain beautiful. It really looks purposeful as is.
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Looks possible RW and period correct. Yes - "It really looks purposeful as is."
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thanks
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Love the push-pull Sikorsky but all of your recent builds look highly plausible. Great stuff! :smiley: :smiley:
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plausibility makes it particularly fun ;)
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(https://i.imgur.com/5VNBtaj.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/al5pMcx.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/k6D3BRR.jpg)
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That works really well and is quite attractive. I think it would take someone a few seconds to tell what's wrong with it. It looks more natural than the "normal" Do 18.
Cheers,
Logan
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:smiley:
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That's beautiful and looks so right and natural. I think that's one of the most attractive blends you've done.
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thanks ! ;)
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and finally :
(https://i.imgur.com/OKCoMMW.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0XFjdUH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0QqCbmA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8J2QYNP.jpg)
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Again, a purposeful look that feels proper.
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Thanks ;)
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:smiley:
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Do-18 & S-43 and Z501 & Do-18 pass test as correct looking for "their times". :smiley: Do-18 & S-43 is my favorite of the two. :smiley:
Like to do a number of your builds with in service schemes & markings. Don't have the time to. Perhaps do a couple sometime.
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They do indeed look like the 'real deal' :smiley:
On the CANT Z.501/Do 18 version, I could imagine the front Jumo diesel being shifted forward slightly for the production version. Or maybe just fitted with a shorter extension shaft than the pusher diesel?
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(https://i.imgur.com/mL7oHxq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/BM5TyFa.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jJWOk5X.jpg)
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Cataline + Dornier Do-24 = Great Looking Seaplane.
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Beautiful!! It certainly "looks right"!
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;D
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Yes! A very clever combo :smiley: :smiley:
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and here comes the expectable reciprocal :
(https://i.imgur.com/Hby1scl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1AOXcX3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/21QrRSJ.jpg)
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That looks great, ericr! 8)
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That looks great, ericr! 8)
+1 could easily be real world.
Mog
>^-.-^<
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thanks ;)
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+2
Very realistic and with a dangerously powerful look
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That looks great, ericr! 8)
+3
That looks great and so very right.
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Right on. All the better to get airborne. Exactly what a Catalina needed. :smiley:
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;D
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Right on. All the better to get airborne. Exactly what a Catalina needed. :smiley:
Oh, I don't know. Seemed to get by on two engines quite nicely:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NxH_HOxUDc (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NxH_HOxUDc)
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Whereas, having 3 engines might cause you to do weird things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G16dW_PEAZY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G16dW_PEAZY)
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with floats from a He155 ;)
(https://i.imgur.com/E12S3xG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yzIFPq4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/c64qyNV.jpg)
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Nice!! Engine intakes appear to be far enough forward to not take in the spray from the floats.
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Those engines will be Russian built, a bit of spray won't hurt them . . . ;D
cheers,
Robin.
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:smiley:
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A bit of PLAAF H-5 escalation for the South China Sea? ;D
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;D
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with floats from a Seagull
(https://i.imgur.com/V6ZJz1Z.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/E4xTzKr.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JWGcRBO.jpg)
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No *that* looks the business. I can just see it in civil registration for someone's fishing retreat.
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:smiley: :smiley:
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;D
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a fast one
(https://i.imgur.com/FX3a8RB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/iggGMJ2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/haCurWg.jpg)
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That's right pretty. Watching it take off from the sea would be quite a sight.
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:smiley:
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thanks !
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Doesn't belong in 'what if', should be in 'why not?'.
It's lovely, eric, lovely.
Edit. You wouldn't believe the trouble a missing comma can cause.
Try "It's lovely eric, lovely" vs "It's lovely, eric, lovely."
I'm sure you're a nice person, eric, but lovely? Perhaps a tad too familiar of me. :)
Ciao
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a bit exaggerated maybe ...
(https://i.imgur.com/WX7aWMI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2ajPGdq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/LiElTZs.jpg)
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Quite attractive!! The difference in engines should make for interesting handling.
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Takes bit extra pilot(s) training to keep flying safely.
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a bit closer to classical
(https://i.imgur.com/OilioUd.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/GcdbaBa.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/oBVC4Wi.jpg)
the Matchbox Ju-188, with floats from a An-2 Colt
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:smiley:
Love it. Have toyed with the idea of doing something similar with a Ju88.
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Love your floaty Junkers! A Real World version - in boring old camouflage colours - would have made a good He 115 replacement :smiley:
If Tophe was still around, he'd love your Sea Fury /Travel Air & Ducks. Asymmetrical in so many ways ;D
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Looks so correct,,, am convincing myself it is RW.
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Gorgeous.
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Beautiful and quite believable!!
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thanks ! ;D
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by popular demand
(well, at least, someone suggested it)
(https://i.imgur.com/z1fxsf0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/qDDfOoU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/DXFzHHD.jpg)
the wings come from a Sunderland
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That one works ! Love it !
Mog
>^-.-^<
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Very nice combination of Catalina and Sunderland!
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Exactly what USN and RN needed. :-*
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thanks ;)
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Better than that monstrosity that was the Bird Innovator
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That one looks so right; I could see this design operating all over the world.
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thanks !
I didn't even know about the Bird Innovator ;-)
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the fuselage from the Sunderland received wings from a U-2 (1/48), and engines from a XB_35
(https://i.imgur.com/AgCONr2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/onAjB8b.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XhjmDFm.jpg)
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Damn, that looks good!! I have to wonder, though, how much spray hits those propellers.
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What a concept scale-o-rama combo. :o :smiley: You have great eye for kit-bashing. Like to borrow from it some build some time !
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thanks !
Like to borrow from it some build some time !
if my builds inspire you, pease go ahead !
the U2 from which the wings are on the Sunderland is there ;D
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg180320#msg180320 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg180320#msg180320)
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the wings from the Osprey seen there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg180467#msg180467 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg180467#msg180467)
came here :
(https://i.imgur.com/eJdTiLC.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/g1hTQVD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pTVe1R7.jpg)
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Looks very Soviet . . . :D
cheers,
Robin.
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I'm with robunos ... it wouldn't be out of place with a Beriev designation.
As usual ericr it's unusual and great
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Beautiful!! That fuselage has the wings high enough above the water that, even in the straight up position, the engine exhausts are clear of the water.
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thanks !
one inspiration was the Convair Advanced autogyro :
(http://speedreaders.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ConvairAdvanced-autogyro.jpg)
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the wings from the Mariner went there
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg180655#msg180655 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg180655#msg180655)
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(https://i.imgur.com/xSLpKHj.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/HSBjjX2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/m6U2lhV.jpg)
floats using B-29/B-50 internal tunnels
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Kawaii!! That's a very cute little helicopter; looks great.
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([url]https://i.imgur.com/z1fxsf0.jpg[/url])
the Catalina wings are used there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg181139#msg181139 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg181139#msg181139)
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with a convenient trunk on the side, for the fishing stuff, picnic, and beer
(https://i.imgur.com/PwOU6cF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/wOZFgMZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/E1XrwCm.jpg)
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I think you've improved its looks. Nice "rich man's toy" you have there.
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Not been on-line much lately and missed your run of four seaplanes. Really like them all, again you have taste for good combinations. :smiley:
Can picture X-32 in small diorama on water with rope ladder from cockpit to pontoon. Pilot is sitting on pontoon fishing. Missile bay has fishing gear, eats, compartment for caught fish.
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;) :D
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I'm seeing a filtre-feeder here. The X-32 skims low, scooping up fish with its gaping lower jaw. Excess water is then expelled through the side 'trucks' ;)
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;D
I had not thought of it, but mentioning fishing it comes to mind ;)
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(https://i.imgur.com/omCEmFJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jgOIF0C.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/5sMCnqA.jpg)
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That looks very plausible.
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Yes, very plausible. And is blue for navy service. :smiley:
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And is blue for navy service. :smiley:
Yes, quite.
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plausibility makes it even more funny sometimes ;D
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;)
plausibility makes it even more funny sometimes ;D
I agree Eric!
Where did you get those two long sausages?
:o
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inside tunnels of B-29 ;)
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with floats from a Ju-52
(https://i.imgur.com/xnQ4cfj.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gDM6E31.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/VsnI9C6.jpg)
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Now, *that* looks so very right. With that color, it would be perfect for Arctic or Antarctic operations in open water.
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;)
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Now, *that* looks so very right. With that color, it would be perfect for Arctic or Antarctic operations in open water.
Seconded :smiley:
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;D
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(https://i.imgur.com/dEJqImy.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/T2kinhI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/oYBksaf.jpg)
with wingtip floats from a Duck
and a borrowed engine, too
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Cute and plausible.
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Oooh, just realised, this is the Ar 95, the biplane version, so . . .
We have a One Wing Biplane !! ;D ;D
cheers,
Robin.
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;D
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Looks kinda Russiany. :smiley:
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;)
another, yellow one
(https://i.imgur.com/aI8qiPk.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/GbObHaI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/O14v8aD.jpg)
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Elegant! :-*
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Most aesthetically appealing!
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;) ;)
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another single float transformation :
(https://i.imgur.com/da6yh1V.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PkLji9k.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/bJ3LUAk.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Maybe its the overall blue but the single-float Seafox looks rather American to me. Nice :smiley:
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;D
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with floats from a Kor-1
(https://i.imgur.com/OladUoE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3F3MBvA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/BeNqZrf.jpg)
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Man, that just looks right.
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;)
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:smiley:
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Wow ... that looks sharp! And the KOR-1 is highly plausible float source. Lavochkin-Beriev LaBe-5? :smiley:
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Man, that just looks right.
Wot Logan said! :smiley:
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Man, that just looks right.
What he said!
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thanks
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I just found a Hawk 200 from Matchbox cheap : so I made a companion to the other Hawk
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=5391.msg179575#msg179575 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=5391.msg179575#msg179575)
the central float is from a very old Frog Swordfish
the small ones from a Duck
(https://i.imgur.com/TwDm5Oo.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0yquKwV.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/HQQaSGU.jpg)
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:smiley:
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That definitely looks the part of dispersed operational asset. Out of curiosity, what is that center strut made from? It looks to be a vertical fin from some aircraft.
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Mmmm....... looking at the size I can't help but suggest a future idea, a Skyhawk seaplane ;)
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On such a roll of new seaplanes. They all work too. :smiley:
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I only suggest two floats under the Skyhawk.
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I only suggest two floats under the Skyhawk.
Skyhawk high mount intakes do give it seaplane potential.
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I only suggest two floats under the Skyhawk.
Spaced and cleanly strutted so that the struts pick up the main landing gear trunnions and actuator mounts in the wing; you might as well take advantage of existing structure.
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;D
the center strut is the fin of a Tornado, left over from a kitbash with wings and twin-booms of a Go242
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg181883#msg181883 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg181883#msg181883)
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in the style of the Blackburn B.20
I left the Martin parts unpainted because I so like the original sprues colors in yellow and blue :rolleyes:
the float parts are from a Beriev 4
(https://i.imgur.com/BSCmoPw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/u7CAVJ3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4mCBfEG.jpg)
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Beautiful!! It looks plausible, too.
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thanks
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here too the three colors together, with blue floatation
(https://i.imgur.com/hvm1Ow7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/r3pSqpS.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Vmw4zD4.jpg)
ok, the blades might be a tad long, but the elevated engines were tempting ;D
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Nice!! Looks like something from a retro-tech anime.
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Interessant, interessant . . .
I have a Stranraer to do as a One Wing Biplane, and I've being wondering as to how to mount the engines. I have a few ideas, now . . . ;)
cheers,
Robin.
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go for it !
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I have a Stranraer to do as a One Wing Biplane...
I too have a Stranraer monoplane on my digital-shelf-of-shame (one day, one day!). But Eric's turboprop 'Strannie' immediately made me think of the tilting nacelles on the Dornier Do 26 :smiley:
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the wings of the Stranraer are there
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg183649#msg183649 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg183649#msg183649)
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the Bassett deserved floats :
(https://i.imgur.com/0nB6XXd.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/eUQBuQ8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/U76E3yt.jpg)
(from a World Cruiser)
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Pretty! :-*
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That one works ! Seriously cool
Mog
>^-.-^<
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Very cool! I could see it sitting on a northern lake in the summer.
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;)
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Sweet.
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thanks !
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the 1/32 Tiger Moth on a 1/72 Voodoo, both old Matchbox kits
(https://i.imgur.com/vAKQ53s.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/LaCzBjB.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/kqfVsZx.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/eLkiXcF.jpg)
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Just the thing for when you're in a hurry to get away for the weekend.
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:smiley:
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;) ;)
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Just the thing for when you're in a hurry to get away for the weekend.
Or de Havilland Canada-supplied floats to adapt RCAF CF-101s for summertime ops in Canada's Far North?
Years ago, somebody did a photo-retouch of that exact concept. That image was nowhere near as competently done as Eric's depiction ... but it sure was funny ;D
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;)
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I recently found this very old kit, and discovered its nice water diorama :
(https://i.imgur.com/10rJzkg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/AP2DelG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yLSAXk4.jpg)
and got from the same bid two other very old kits (older than me ...)
which I decided to fit to this nice base :
a Gee Bee
(https://i.imgur.com/EOGwIW2.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JkGoOtt.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/lsBvULl.jpg)
a Laird Solution :
(https://i.imgur.com/CfZ0Vht.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QZoURcy.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/FwJVKt3.jpg)
and I think I could fit quite a few others in the future ...
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:smiley:
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Those have a very TaleSpin feel to me.
(https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/0/08/Piratefighter02.jpg) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTD-LtpW0M)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTD-LtpW0M (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVTD-LtpW0M)
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indeed ! ;D
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That base looks great! What kit did it come from?
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yes it was a good suprise to have this wave in plastic : it is in the classic kit, and I guess also in later editions :
(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/5/7/6/170576-27002-32-720.jpg)
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It looks like a nice kit!
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yes it is, very old but quite nice indeed
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starting a new series
(https://i.imgur.com/qGR6XLG.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gIhqFw4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2DZM1Ib.jpg)
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Those rear prop blades might be a smidge intimidating for the gunners but that looks really cool 8)
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;D
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next step :
the Britannia is 1/96
(https://i.imgur.com/SOxgkLv.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pqc7Ocz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XFUmsOl.jpg)
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Right on. Plenty of power to get off water quickly. :-*
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yes it was a good suprise to have this wave in plastic : it is in the classic kit, and I guess also in later editions :
(https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/5/7/6/170576-27002-32-720.jpg)
Just don’t give that plane to Harrison Ford. He’ll plant it on a golf course!
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;)
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The Britannia fuselage appears here :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg188233#msg188233 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg188233#msg188233)
(https://i.imgur.com/BGj9N9R.jpg)
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the (rest of the) wings of the Do18 and Catalina are there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg188417#msg188417 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg188417#msg188417)
(https://i.imgur.com/V5xNyoC.jpg)
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Love that Lysander body.
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thanks !
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a quick floatplanization
(with floats from a He19)
(https://i.imgur.com/MVcshzu.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/vOnWrQP.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NqGuCuc.jpg)
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That looks awesome! For the real deal, I'd imagine some kind of retractable loading ramp(s) dropping down between the noses of the floats.
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:smiley:
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Not that far-fetched either:
(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/77/27/52/772752e52a85f871db8ffc3f3517ae69.jpg)
http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?7880= (http://axis-and-allies-paintworks.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?7880=)
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;)
thanks for the image : there were seaplane gliders indeed !
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(https://i.imgur.com/S0Gosrl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XS9UI0r.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/hehwQ72.jpg)
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Hmmm...extended range version perhaps?
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;)
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with floats from a Colt
(https://i.imgur.com/XLewj3E.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/T9ekXdf.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/tdMouOU.jpg)
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Another excellent kit bash @EricR. :smiley:
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Another excellent kit bash @EricR. :smiley:
Yes, OOB kind of appearance.
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Nice! That would give the 'Twotters' on floats a literal run for their money :smiley:
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;)
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:smiley:
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a very old, very rare kit : I found it built, not too badly, but quite incomplete w.r.t. wheels etc
but this was fine for a seaplane
(https://i.imgur.com/jv8tYyp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/B9YCQZJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/41rD6ug.jpg)
using Ju52 floats
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:smiley:
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;)
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Very nice!
a very old, very rare kit...
Is this the old 1/75th Heller kit?
...using Ju52 floats
But you'd never know it with those ultra-swoopy pylons! :smiley:
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thanks !
yes it must be the Heller kit (I didn't get a box, but there is only one kit of this)
and the pylons are most probably from some B-52 I think ;-)
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...yes it must be the Heller kit (I didn't get a box, but there is only one kit of this)...
There is a 1/72 SEM Model kit but that represents the developed Couzinet 71. That Model 71 had a slightly longer fuselage but I'm not sure what the other mods were ...
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...yes it must be the Heller kit (I didn't get a box, but there is only one kit of this)...
There is a 1/72 SEM Model kit but that represents the developed Couzinet 71. That Model 71 had a slightly longer fuselage but I'm not sure what the other mods were ...
Two part dossier on the Couzinet Arcs. In French but very well illustrated:
https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/arc-en-ciel_atlantique_vol1.pdf (https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/arc-en-ciel_atlantique_vol1.pdf)
https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/arc-en-ciel_atlantique_vol2.pdf (https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/arc-en-ciel_atlantique_vol2.pdf)
The dossiers page on the site is a fantastic resource:
https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/index.php (https://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/index.php)
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Thanks for providing those links Jon :smiley:
If anyone could provide the details on French projects, it would be Gérard Hartmann!
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Swoopy tail & pylons & floats carries swoopy style all the way through. Adds character :smiley:
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ah yes, Scalemates shows the SEM 1:72 kit;
also a kit from Akatombo Works ?
I never heard of these ones before
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(https://i.imgur.com/9B7sySZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/OscFLWp.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6uZwkHq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6x4lOHc.jpg)
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Surprised how well those wings work :smiley:
Ever get around to it, like borrow on some of your combos.
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a bit russian look indeed ;)
if you feel like re-using some ideas to make them your owbn way, it's my pleasure, please go ahead :smiley:
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Very Russian looking indeed! They had a similar engine placement in their Su-10 bomber designs from the late 40s. (http://aviationtrivia.blogspot.com/2011/04/sukhois-first-jet-bomber.html)
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;D
thanks for the reference ! it has something indeed, in the vertical double jets
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(https://i.imgur.com/1y2jOOS.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/YDW8tvA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/x7OmTdF.jpg)
with a 1/48 Kyofu float
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:smiley:
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That looks so right!
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thanks !
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This is terrible, Eric has inspired me to do something similar !!
Novo Supermarine Attacker to Viper.
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:smiley:
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;D
excellent !
:smiley: :smiley:
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And a new word enters the modelling lexicon - "Ericr'd". Definition: To forcibly kitbash two irreconcilably different models into two, distinct, gorgeous, new ones.
This adds to "Tophe'd". Definition: To take any kit, drawing, or concept and make it asymmetric, in clear violation of, and nose-thumbing to, reality.
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And a new word enters the modelling lexicon - "Ericr'd". Definition: To forcibly kitbash two irreconcilably different models into two, distinct, gorgeous, new ones.
This adds to "Tophe'd". Definition: To take any kit, drawing, or concept and make it asymmetric, in clear violation of, and nose-thumbing to, reality.
And make it turn out looking great!!
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thank you for the compliment ! ;D ;D ;D
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(https://i.imgur.com/klgVDN4.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/MBX3ALY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/maoGTCW.jpg)
also featuring one float from a Frog Swordfish, for asymetric stability
(how are these boats from the Pacific called, with a main hull and one side-float?)
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Different...
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;D
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(how are these boats from the Pacific called, with a main hull and one side-float?)
My recollection is that they are called outriggers, at least the side float is -outrigger canoes. I lived on Kwajalein island as a child,
and the form was a popular form of folk art as well. Ideally, though, the outrigger should be braced to the hull. Bracing it to the wing
is the equivalent of bracing it to the mast or sail. ;) Good lookin' ship, regardless!
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You’ve been taking lessons from Tophe I see!
That’s a wild combo, I love it! And oh yeah, I’d call it outrigger!
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;D
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Yep. One asymmetric float with four vertical fins. Tophe would love it ;D
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Mach2 kit with Matchbox Twin Otter floats
(https://i.imgur.com/Hk5uA2Q.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/OQ1P2mP.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/owxy3pj.jpg)
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:smiley:
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;)
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I thereby disassembled the twin hull, sorry about that, but the result has some surprise in it nonetheless ?
(https://i.imgur.com/T9n3HG6.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/9FxJjtn.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WRc0vuc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Dame7ts.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ib51Par.jpg)
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Looks as feasible as real SM55 :smiley: For flying to remote lakes and fishing from the floats.
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;)
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:smiley:
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Simoun in 1/72, floats in 1/48
(https://i.imgur.com/yjTgPn7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/x5COhDJ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/rhDcBaY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/aeZxjHV.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Nice ! ... what are you going to do with the Ryan ? :D
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the Ryan was done simply in yellow ;-) somewhere higher up in this thread
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another asymmetric prao
(https://i.imgur.com/BEkDwKc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/v2Q42QV.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/g83YUDS.jpg)
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:smiley:
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;)
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a testbed for a jet flying boat
(https://i.imgur.com/k8f9lw0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8rM93TD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/NgG7Yve.jpg)
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Oh My God ! You need bigger, thicker, stronger struts for that one !
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Oh My God ! You need bigger, thicker, stronger struts for that one !
Good point. I like it anyway :smiley:
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;)
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(https://www.reactiongifs.us/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/nevermind_nathan_fillion.gif)
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1/32 (old Revell, the wing articulation a bit too fragile unfortunately)
with 1/48 He115 floats
(https://i.imgur.com/pwh6ZbY.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/6Pvp8b8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/cbhNl6H.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/MikSSAQ.jpg)
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Not far from reality:
(http://christophe.arribat.pagesperso-orange.fr/stoff4f3s.jpg)
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Indeed I am sometimes only timidly whiffing ;)
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@EricR - That is a winning compination and retaining the folding wing feature makes perfect sense in packing more of the same type of aircraft into an aircraft hangar or aboard ship. :smiley:
The model would look even better if you can place it on a ground handling dolley.
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:smiley:
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(https://i.imgur.com/T2FvZSD.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/7UBuSOZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Kjtp61j.jpg)
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Me Likey ! :smiley:
reminds me of the Dornier Do24ATT . . .
cheers,
Robin.
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thanks ;)
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Looks to me like a modernised Sikorsky S-38 but it lacks the twin boom tail ;)
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:smiley:
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;D
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(https://i.imgur.com/HWvTUg7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/AUZAPnw.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/fgfpOpU.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ZrqgvXC.jpg)
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Ooo, that works and the proportions are excellent! Lovely Focke Wulf mit Seestiefeln an :smiley:
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:smiley:
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;D
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(https://i.imgur.com/mQcpUs3.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/CzezgTM.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2cfsj56.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Zl62v0B.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/UAVTkME.jpg)
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This is completely bonkers! I love it :-*
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Funny you should post that now. Been looking at Aircraft Boats on the net ...
https://ruudleeuw.com/search113.htm (https://ruudleeuw.com/search113.htm)
http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/lake-boga-disposals/lakeboga.html (http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/lake-boga-disposals/lakeboga.html)
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thanks a lot ;D
and thank you for the reference : a source of inspiration ! very doable in plastic ...
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:smiley:
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;)
the other part of the Mavis seen there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg197019#msg197019 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg197019#msg197019)
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Ooo, that works and the proportions are excellent! Lovely Focke Wulf mit Seestiefeln an :smiley:
Super Build Luv to know which float sets did you use for the beauty.
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;)
floats are from an Italeri 1/48 AR196, easy fit
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(https://i.imgur.com/COsDRyi.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/xWVkgM0.jpg)
floats from a Seafox
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:smiley:
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;D
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with floats from a 1/48 Ar 196
(https://i.imgur.com/jBobpV5.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3rphxev.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/3FQU8iB.jpg)
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Competitor to the Ar95 perhaps?
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Lookie here too: http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7232.0 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=7232.0)
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:smiley:
thanks for the link !
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(https://i.imgur.com/DfgCbRX.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/s9p10Oe.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ikBd4eE.jpg)
with a Seagull float
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:smiley:
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:smiley:
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Just the thing to train Swiss pilots to land on Lake Geneva :D
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Or, indeed, FAB pilots on Rio Amazonas :smiley:
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;D ;D ;D
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with a Duck float
(https://i.imgur.com/gtpvmbr.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yOyjH3Q.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/RyodX0P.jpg)
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Awesome!
You make it look easy!
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Love it! An air-sea rescue Rex ;D
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;D
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(https://i.imgur.com/SV7dbMa.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/pqElAKg.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QAsLAih.jpg)
with 1/48 Viking wings and inverted engines ;)
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Very nice! And much more elegant-looking than the follow-on, raised-tail Be-6 Турбо-II ;)
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;D ;D ;D :smiley:
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(https://i.imgur.com/3ebTnwl.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/CNcgTAb.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/MiJgWCQ.jpg)
good(?) old Frog Gannet
with (1/48) Lublin R.XIII Ter floats
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Oh yeah!!! :smiley:
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Nice! It is easy to image a float-Gannet with a retractable main float as well - wartime Blackburn style.
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;D
easy to image, maybe a bit less to build ;)
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Imagining it on a catapult on a modernized KGV ;)
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;)
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(https://i.imgur.com/fFL9u1i.jpg)
and red and blue
(https://i.imgur.com/pVZTqUZ.jpg)
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That's the Trumpeter kit! Those PE struts must have been a nightmare.
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That's the Trumpeter kit!
yes indeed
Those PE struts must have been a nightmare.
yes indeed
but survivable ;)
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I looked at the main PE struts and put the kit away for a future date: "Not today, Satan!" You made three of them!
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pity you didn't combine all three kits into one, Eric.
We need a few multiplanes on here ;D
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Splendid RW looking Be-6 and Gannet builds :smiley: :smiley:
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;D
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Mi-8, yellow
(https://i.imgur.com/hFkD6XQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/owpVdml.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/fjIl5ri.jpg)
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:smiley:
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DC-130 drone, yellow
(https://i.imgur.com/cwPhlpr.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/I94BVnv.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/HacqGr7.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Lysander (& Duck)
(https://i.imgur.com/4g8Xq1m.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/KBvRh7K.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/drrBGjG.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Lysander (& Duck)
Excellent combo! And I love your low-mounted Lysander wings :smiley: :smiley:
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;D
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The Lysanderduck works REALLY well! :smiley:
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Skua, red : primary seaplanes
with floats from a SOC Seamew
(https://i.imgur.com/Yjzc2wZ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/VpmUZ87.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/08zYGzI.jpg)
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with floats from a Sopwith Schneider
(https://i.imgur.com/hv6EkNq.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/mlPkGh0.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/BuIDRHM.jpg)
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So thatz how they did it :icon_surprised:
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Wyvern, yellow : primary seaplanes
with the float of a Duck
a bit quickly made : the yellow has a worn aspect ;)
(https://i.imgur.com/Smqp1rK.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/iAHpGDQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/REzNcin.jpg)
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:smiley:
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:smiley: :smiley:
stinkin' lousy yellow paint - I hate it with a passion.
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;D ;D ;D
lousy indeed, but old weird hidden prototypes sometimes wear that way? ;)
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Vampire (1/48), red : primary seaplanes
with floats of a Lublin R.XIII
(https://i.imgur.com/0OLXw07.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/PhiEiHc.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/OeMAJHx.jpg)
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:smiley:
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But of course :smiley: RN must have flown some of these and I missed seeing the pictures.
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;D ;D ;D
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FW190, blue : primary seaplanes
reusing a previously owned made FW kit (I kept the propeller original color)
with floats from a Seafox
(https://i.imgur.com/fpxD8Hz.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Bp8QO9X.jpg)
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Very cool! 8)
Something something Schneider Trophy.
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:smiley:
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Buffalo, yellow : primary seaplanes
with floats from a Willow
(https://i.imgur.com/GQDoMxO.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/XyWEFke.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/QDRuygo.jpg)
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Floats size perfect on Buffalo. Will it be competitor for seaplane speed record ?
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:smiley:
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Stranraer (& Ju52), red : primary seaplanes
(https://i.imgur.com/SCECt1y.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/d8oC417.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/s94nrOk.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/WBxwWA8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/JbytSAy.jpg)
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Hmmm . . . looks familiar . . . ;) :smiley: ;D
cheers,
Robin.
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;) ;) ;)
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Looks like it could have been RW!
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;D
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Sea vixen (& Ju52), yellow : primary seaplanes
(https://i.imgur.com/hVU4kSx.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/jiYB1bS.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/yE3NOKA.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/cR2yj31.jpg)
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:smiley:
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Another surprise :icon_surprised:
It otta work !
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;D
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;D
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Tradewind & Ju188, blue : primary seaplanes
nr. 8 in a series of 9, each giving its wings to the next, in a cycle :
Walrus --> Ar234 --> B29(1/144)--> Boston --> Lublin R.XIII --> Alphajet (1/50) --> Tu-95 (1/200) --> Ju188 --> Tradewind(1/166) --> Walrus
(see others, non seaplanes, there : http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg206756#msg206756 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg206756#msg206756))
(https://i.imgur.com/PyJ8BIE.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Q57fX0Z.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/GQdG0DQ.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/RDBbFhY.jpg)
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Gee this flows and balances out well :smiley:
Is scale discrepancy between cockpit and engines, but what the hey !
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;D
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Walrus&Tradewind (1/166), red : primary seaplanes
nr. 9 in a series of 9, each giving its wings to the next, in a cycle :
Walrus --> Ar234 --> B29(1/144)--> Boston --> Lublin R.XIII --> Alphajet (1/50) --> Tu-95 (1/200) --> Ju188 --> Tradewind(1/166) --> Walrus
(see others, non seaplanes, there : http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg206756#msg206756) (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg206756#msg206756))
(https://i.imgur.com/xi1Ej3b.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/TDbCj8r.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/Wjth9ND.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/FbffCTI.jpg)
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Pogo & Mavis, red : primary seaplanes
(https://i.imgur.com/X1UmQQ9.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/iKRBDiF.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/LEzYGpM.jpg)
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Hope the sea is smooth & it's not in the path of a cyclone ! ;D
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Yes, this is of concern: Hope the sea is smooth & it's not in the path of a cyclone ! ;D
Diorama of appropriately equipped seaplane tender (AV) doing turnaround (fuel, rearm, pilot) would be fascinating. :smiley: ;)
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;D ;D ;D
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Emily & Mi-6, blue : primary seaplanes
(https://i.imgur.com/mYCkPUm.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/ywTKihH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/4ETx7NH.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/8cnTxZ7.jpg)
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:smiley:
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All goes together well as if RW. Rather cool 8) in its own right.
Can picture in Russian, US, other markings....
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;D
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M-5 & V-1, yellow : primary seaplanes
(https://i.imgur.com/IojAAvo.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/41hVXiV.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/MQauFDT.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/0UtneWE.jpg)
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It was reported during the first test flight the V-1 engine tore the top wing off and the combination flew off into the distance never to be seen again!
These combos are cracking me up! Keep it going!
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;D ;D ;D
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Is the obscure first jet seaplane. :smiley:
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;)
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a reciprocal there :
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg211473#msg211473 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4100.msg211473#msg211473)
(https://i.imgur.com/CnQTncG.jpg)
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Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes
this is a seaplane, in so far that the Seaknight is able of floatation ;-)
(https://i.imgur.com/40nf5EL.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/gqYhIRI.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/1PtUuz8.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/wRcDleP.jpg)
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Nice,,, big improvement to on the ground mobility using proven M16 drive components :smiley:
I never would have thought of it.
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:smiley: :D