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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #275 on: May 09, 2016, 03:59:57 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #276 on: May 10, 2016, 02:03:21 AM »
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 à vingt exemplaires". Have you just changed the color or improved the shape somehow?

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #277 on: May 10, 2016, 03:03:31 AM »
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 à 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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #278 on: May 10, 2016, 05:33:54 PM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #279 on: May 19, 2016, 01:11:29 AM »

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)








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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #280 on: May 19, 2016, 02:06:33 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #281 on: May 19, 2016, 02:11:54 AM »
Great mix! :-*

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #282 on: May 19, 2016, 08:21:18 AM »
You know, that's so crazy it might just work!

It sure looks plausible enough!

Been thinking along similar lines myself lately.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #283 on: May 20, 2016, 10:53:38 PM »
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  ;) )









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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #284 on: May 21, 2016, 12:14:22 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #285 on: May 22, 2016, 06:14:05 PM »

thanksalot!

the A-28 is indeed not exactly 2 x 14  ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #286 on: May 23, 2016, 02:16:24 AM »
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!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #287 on: May 24, 2016, 02:34:19 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #288 on: May 24, 2016, 10:56:15 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #289 on: May 24, 2016, 03:08:56 PM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #290 on: June 10, 2016, 08:08:49 PM »

here is a Mavis (of which I used thebottom hull for something else : wait and see ...)

at waterline level







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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #291 on: June 11, 2016, 05:40:57 PM »
Good result, once more!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #292 on: June 13, 2016, 03:40:15 AM »

thanks !

the hull I removed from this one will soon re-appear in a brand new Whiff ...



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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #293 on: June 19, 2016, 05:07:48 AM »

the hull of the Mavis went there :

a flying boat version of the LS8-t glider

(1/144 fit on 1/32)








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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #294 on: June 19, 2016, 08:07:50 AM »
 :)
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #295 on: June 19, 2016, 12:28:04 PM »
 :-* (I love "marine-sailplanes" - we say "hydroplaneurs" in French, I think, as hydrogliders?)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #296 on: June 19, 2016, 11:43:20 PM »

thanks!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #297 on: July 19, 2016, 02:18:20 AM »

a lovely, very tiny kit :








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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #298 on: July 29, 2016, 03:02:09 PM »
tiny but lovely!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #299 on: August 01, 2016, 03:58:57 AM »

thanks!