Author Topic: Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes (Read 290770 times)

Modelling_Mushi · « **Reply #150 on:** January 03, 2016, 09:11:03 PM »

I dont suppose you have a 1/72 Sperm Whale you could cross with the corvette do you?

ericr · « **Reply #151 on:** January 04, 2016, 04:16:20 AM »

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

ericr · « **Reply #152 on:** January 10, 2016, 11:41:23 PM »

a Sabre on a single central float :

should look good on a catapult, soon ...

Tophe · « **Reply #153 on:** January 10, 2016, 11:50:36 PM »

Very beautiful, thanks for this enjoyment!

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #154 on:** January 11, 2016, 02:57:05 AM »

FAAMAN · « **Reply #155 on:** January 11, 2016, 09:53:54 AM »

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'

Nice take on the F-86 floatplane

:)

ericr · « **Reply #156 on:** January 13, 2016, 12:36:47 AM »

thanks all !

Quote from: FAAMAN on January 11, 2016, 09:53:54 AM

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'
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

ericr · « **Reply #157 on:** January 16, 2016, 10:08:22 PM »

like on this preview (colors not yet ready

):

Brian da Basher · « **Reply #158 on:** January 20, 2016, 07:50:16 AM »

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

ericr · « **Reply #159 on:** January 21, 2016, 06:51:08 PM »

thanks a lot !

ericr · « **Reply #160 on:** January 21, 2016, 07:19:51 PM »

an new floatplane : the PZL 39 (with floats coming from a 1/48 MC72) :

funnily, it looks a bit like a Fiat RS14

Tophe · « **Reply #161 on:** January 22, 2016, 03:12:05 AM »

Beautiful!

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #162 on:** January 22, 2016, 03:24:22 AM »

Love it, may copy it...though maybe not in yellow!

ericr · « **Reply #163 on:** January 22, 2016, 04:20:04 PM »

thanks !

Quote from: GTX_Admin on January 22, 2016, 03:24:22 AM

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

(isn't that close to the definition of fantastic litterature by the way?)

ericr · « **Reply #164 on:** January 27, 2016, 04:27:56 AM »

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.

ericr · « **Reply #165 on:** January 31, 2016, 01:18:51 AM »

here it is :

with a blue Iskra :

or a red HD-780 :

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #166 on:** January 31, 2016, 04:03:23 AM »

FAAMAN · « **Reply #167 on:** January 31, 2016, 07:10:21 AM »

The red HD looks good on the 'cat' :)

ericr · « **Reply #168 on:** February 01, 2016, 01:32:52 AM »

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 !

ericr · « **Reply #169 on:** February 07, 2016, 06:06:26 AM »

FAAMAN · « **Reply #170 on:** February 07, 2016, 06:40:17 AM »

The Buffalo looks strangely 'right'

ericr · « **Reply #171 on:** February 07, 2016, 08:40:19 PM »

thanks ! the Buffalo does deserve a float indeed

ericr · « **Reply #172 on:** February 09, 2016, 04:24:59 PM »

Volkodav · « **Reply #173 on:** February 09, 2016, 09:07:38 PM »

Off topic but the angle of the Gannet photo has me thinking about a WWII, Napier Sabre powered, twin float, torpedo bomber, Gannet.

ericr · « **Reply #174 on:** February 10, 2016, 04:26:17 AM »

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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Author Topic: Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes (Read 290770 times)