Author Topic: Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes  (Read 287821 times)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #50 on: July 26, 2015, 09:52:36 AM »
Great work on the Hind.  Gives me a couple of scary thoughts.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #51 on: July 27, 2015, 05:53:36 PM »
thanx!
don't be afraid of whif thoughts ;-)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #52 on: July 29, 2015, 02:53:47 AM »
Nice, and, really, quite plausible.

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #53 on: August 08, 2015, 08:43:16 PM »
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!

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #54 on: August 19, 2015, 07:07:25 PM »
thanks!

and now into the tiny :

twin-float versions of the Romeo Ro-43, at the scale of 1/700








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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #55 on: August 20, 2015, 01:21:19 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #56 on: August 21, 2015, 02:08:57 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #57 on: August 29, 2015, 02:18:56 AM »

another whiff by the addition of one float to the usually single float Marcel Besson MB411, at 1/350 :








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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #58 on: August 29, 2015, 11:14:32 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #59 on: August 29, 2015, 07:15:39 PM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #60 on: August 29, 2015, 09:11:22 PM »
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
« Last Edit: August 29, 2015, 09:15:32 PM by Tophe »

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #61 on: August 30, 2015, 12:02:26 AM »
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #62 on: August 30, 2015, 01:14:08 AM »
Unusual and interesting... does this count as Variable Geometry?

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #63 on: August 30, 2015, 08:11:39 PM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #64 on: August 30, 2015, 08:56:35 PM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #65 on: September 02, 2015, 06:08:29 PM »
do you mean in-flight reconfigation of the airframe? that is wild  ;D

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #66 on: September 02, 2015, 06:27:19 PM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #67 on: September 03, 2015, 04:36:39 AM »
you're welcome: your imagination fires my imagination  ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #68 on: September 04, 2015, 02:12:55 AM »
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:

Thanks ericr inventor! Maybe this is not very solid scale 1, but on paper or cartoon, this is easy... ;)
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #69 on: September 04, 2015, 02:21:33 AM »

waahh  :)

looks a bit like a p38-based transformer?  ;)

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #70 on: September 15, 2015, 01:37:17 AM »

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 :




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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #71 on: September 15, 2015, 01:53:29 AM »
Poor flies, glued there forever?

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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #72 on: September 15, 2015, 02:52:24 AM »
 ;D
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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #73 on: September 15, 2015, 06:26:57 AM »
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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Re: Puma, red : primary seaplanes
« Reply #74 on: September 15, 2015, 11:13:26 AM »
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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