Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => Floaty GB => Topic started by: AXOR on February 13, 2017, 06:18:46 PM
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Hi all :)
I couldn't stay away since I voted for this GB therefore here are my works so far...hope to be more others although I experience an nonproductive period.
Minus points for the absence of any backstory C:-)
Fairchild-91 in RAAF service.A very beautiful seaplane which to my surprise only four were built.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2581/32752206181_81d4c5341c_b.jpg)
Canadair CL-415 International Rescue service.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/674/32752206001_75a1328341_b.jpg)
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I love your Fairchild 91! :-* :-*
I did not remember this seaplane at all! (if I ever knew it). Thanks a lot! I may draw P-38 and P-51 like that, saying the idea comes from you of course. :)
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Thanks guys. :D
Cristophe,draw what you desire,is no need to mension me at all,is not like I made this design.
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I've always liked the look of the Fairchild 91 as well. There was a proposed military version, but I think the commercial version was just a bit underpowered for military use.
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Thought I wouldn't finish so soon another profile...
Stuka on floats...looks soooo Seiran...
Great profile you have created. The floats look like a perfect match to the Stuka. After a second or two I can see why you say it looks like the Seiran. :)
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Thanks guys ! :)
Gooood,let's move on : Martin Baker MB2
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2882/32857199442_1bbb42a8e7_b.jpg)
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Gooood,
I agree: your self satisfaction is well deserved, congratulations! :-*
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Another one...Bell P-63 looks nice on floats :
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3738/32257473703_29abc4e386_b.jpg)
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Good profile!
I just notice now the little wheel at the rear of the float, and as I see no big wheel in front like amphibious version, I wonder what that is. Maybe the floats were loaded on a wheeled cart or something? or is this an invention in a dream world?
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Okay, brilliant Seiran-Stuka ... but I love the floaty MB-2 and your Sea Cobra rocks :-*
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Thanks guys,I'm gald you like it. :)
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Cristophe,your first gues is corect.In fact,I used EDO floats of Grumman Wildcatfish
(http://www.vintagewings.ca/Portals/0/Vintage_Stories/News%20Stories%20K/Any%20Thing%20But%20Wheels/SkisandFloats34.jpg)
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/494/Anything-But-Wheels.aspx (http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/494/Anything-But-Wheels.aspx)
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Thanks for the wheel explanation :)
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Pulled out a stack of floaty kits from the stash yesterday afternoon to decide what to build and try and get finished for this GB, my wife saw the pile and then the fight started. This is not going to go smoothly.
Probably didn't help that I replied to her "what are they" with "well you ask what the point of having them is if I don't build any" and followed "her but why have you pulled out so many" with "I pulled out all the crushed boxes to see how much damage there is" She wasn't appreciative of me pointing out that putting heavy boxes of tools etc. on top of fragile plastic storage boxes full of kits doesn't end to well, or that she wanted them away somewhere out of sight, doesn't justify damaging my stuff. Pointing out that I used to keep them in a store room on shelves and in cabinets that we don't have anymore didn't help my case either. Being right is not enough and often makes the situation worse. ::)
Anyway now they are out and when she is not looking I will attempt to find the box that has my tools and paints so I can make a start. Just need to workout where to do the build since she gave two indoor tables, an out door setting and our folding table to her daughter. Adding insult to injury, the daughters boyfriend is using one of the tables as a work bench and another they share as a hobby table under their veranda. My wife thinks this is great and asks me why I don't do something like that, well it is a bit hard to when she has given them all of the tables, my tool cabinet, all of my power tools because they are living on our converted garage which is where she believes those things belong while all I have is the veranda which apparently is not suitable for such things as they look untidy. >:D
If you don't hear from me again its because my decision to use the dinner table has not gone well.
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Being right is not enough and often makes the situation worse. ::)
Christ man. Surely you have been married long enough to know that already?!
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Being right is not enough and often makes the situation worse. ::)
Christ man. Surely you have been married long enough to know that already?!
I do know better just having a dig at her that every move that is meant to finally get me a mans land but each time we end up with less personal space. She's actually as badly off as me as we have no space for a home office or study let alone hobbies, haven't had since her mum moved in with us in our old place down south back in 2011/12.
Just desperately want to do something for this GB.
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Oh man,this sucks, >:( however,I hope you find a solution or a compromise and do what you want to do.You desperately need ''a vital space'' bigger,smaller,no matter,just your space.....!!!
For a very long time I practically ''worked on my knees'',sitting on a chair with a textolite plate on my knees with all the other tools and paints around me on the floor.That was my work bench :-[
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Didn't you say you have 40 acres of land ---- must be somewhere where you can go ;) ;)
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Didn't you say you have 40 acres of land ---- must be somewhere where you can go ;) ;)
5 acres, 4.75 acres of it virgin scrub with a house and a large shed in the middle. Unfortunately being the tropics its not just a case of space but air conditioned space, in a couple of months sitting outside working on kits will be very comfortable but at the moment not.
Speaking of air conditioners, one of ours stopped working, the cause?
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Reminds me of some fun one of our guys had in Malaysia last year. Was working on a base up there and had a flying snake (yes that is real - look it up) stick its head out of aircon right next to his head.
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Reminds me of some fun one of our guys had in Malaysia last year. Was working on a base up there and had a flying snake (yes that is real - look it up) stick its head out of aircon right next to his head.
My wife is reconsidering the rules in regards to firearms in the house, and flamethrowers, grenades, Claymores, demolition charges, real working AFVs......She don't like snakes, no siree'.
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Fiat G-50...this one is my favorite.
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3837/33191424085_90defc3eb0_b.jpg)
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That IS nice! 8)
The trident on the cowling is cool.
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I agree!
Cheers,
Logan
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Very nice
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Have loved all your float fighters, but the G.50 Idro is the best so far. Keep it up.
Chuck
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Can easily see that flying off Vittorio Veneto as a battleship based interceptor.
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Fiat G-50...this one is my favorite...
... and I can see why... looks so real... :)
Almost unbelievable that such variant of G-50 didn't appeared during WWII...
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Have loved all your float fighters, but the G.50 Idro is the best so far. Keep it up.
Gotta agree with Chuck there ... and to cross the G.50 Idro off my own to-do list ;D
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yes the G.50 looks nice as a idro
I did a C.200 some time ago
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Thanks a lot for your words guys :D !
As work on I-16 do not evolve at all,I did a new profile,Breda Ba-27 :
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2811/33287487361_4bbfb384e3_b.jpg)
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That is gorgeous! :-*
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That is gorgeous! :-*
Agreed.
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Beautifully executed; but (IMHO), I'm not sure of the aesthetic wisdom of replacing gorgeous, intimidating spats with floats! ;)
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Beautifully executed; but (IMHO), I'm not sure of the aesthetic wisdom of replacing gorgeous, intimidating spats with floats! ;)
Yes, this is indeed distressing to some of us. ;)
The wisdom of replacing spats aside, that's some wonderful work AXOR!
Brian da Basher
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Thanks everyone :)
Beautifully executed; but (IMHO), I'm not sure of the aesthetic wisdom of replacing gorgeous, intimidating spats with floats! ;)
Yes, this is indeed distressing to some of us. ;)
Yes, I had the feeling that I disturbed the balance somehow >:D ;D something must be done about it
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any aircraft can be improved by fitting floats ;D
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I think this will be the last profile for this GB,Yak-18 in Romanian service:
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3687/33430650426_35a3340472_b.jpg)
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Blue color is nice while... are Romanian lakes blue or grey? (for camo principle)
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The wisdom of replacing spats aside, that's some wonderful work AXOR!
This Breda Ba-27 Idro kinda has 'float-spats' ... and I'm keen on Ba-27s of any stripe :)
Lovely floaty Yak-18 too!
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This Breda Ba-27 Idro kinda has 'float-spats' ...
"Galoshes"?
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That floaty Yak 18 is some real eye-candy!
Brian da Basher
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Given how small the Hw-162 was, that is one very small torpedo...
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That's corect Greg,in my drawing I represented a light torpedo,but I can change the design for a larger torpedo.
In this configuration could also carry four depth bombs,two on each side.
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The shape of this tiny He-162W is lovely :-*
I would prefer Romanian roundels but the most important for me is the shape invention.
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the shape of the He162W is a nice idea indeed !
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I have been inspired, for copied Mustangs on the other warbird side...:
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That's nice Cristophe! :)
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Brilliant! The He 162 makes the perfect jet float fighter :)
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Thanks :)
I couldn't help myself and I drew another one...How not to love him ? ;D
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2872/33221551870_4bfe176680_b.jpg)
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Nice!! My first thought was, "float's too small." But then I thought, "it's a GeeBee - the wings are too small, the float may as well be, too!" I suspect it would be near impossible to fly, since the landplane version was already known as a pilot-killer. But surely it would be a fast floatplane for its day!
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He-162 and R3 Super Floatster (such a name) are brilliant and :-*
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I'm glad you like it guys!
Finnish He-51 :
(https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3856/32837721094_416fbf50cb_b.jpg)
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Looks like a He-51 and a He-60 got frisky...