S-38 & B2

[ericr]

how (un)reasonable would this be ?



(I can't exactly remember where this S-38 hull come from ... maybe it was a spare in the kit I built some years ago?)
(in the giraffe livery, of course)

[zenrat]

Cool.  Like a batboatplane.

[PR19_Kit]

Looks a good idea to me too.

Where DID the S-38 kit come from anyway? I've only ever seen a 1/72 vacform of the S-38 before, but it was SO complicated to build.

[Captain Canada]

Gonna be a nice mix !

[ericr]

Looks a good idea to me too.

Where DID the S-38 kit come from anyway? I've only ever seen a 1/72 vacform of the S-38 before, but it was SO complicated to build.

I had a CMK resin kit, reasonably buildable, for my limited skills

and it was actually a zebra (the giraffe was the S39)

[ericr]

a bit of progress :

the B2 is a half-metal diecast, but only for the central top part, the rest isplastic, easier to work with ...
the engine too are plastic, and could be extracted and reused

the wingtip floats come from a resin Dujin SOC Seamew ...

[PR19_Kit]

That's looking promising already. 

Thanks for the info on the S-38 kit, I may look for one.

[Dizzyfugu]

Wicked...!

[Tophe]

Wow! I thought "impossible" to match those parts, but it seems you are going to succeed, incredibly!

[sandiego89]

Main downside would be loosing your low observabilty/radar cross section- the main reason for the B-2. The boat hull is somewhat slab sided and the step would both create large radar returns. So with the drag you would wind up with an even slower B-2 (the B-2 is not fast) and would lose the stealth aspects. I would also worry about the effects of sea spray on the delicate stealth coatings. Sorry to sound like a wet blanket- but it would look neat

[PR19_Kit]

But just because some of it looks like a B-2 doesn't meant that it's anything to do with being stealthy.

Indeed, it may be just a co-incidence that it looks like a B-2.

[TheChronicOne]

Fascinating!!  This is looking very cool so far... I like the idea and by golly... I remember just mentioning a day or two ago the possibility of doing a flying wing boat plane in my blog and sure enough if you aren't here making one. (I dismissed the idea outright as I haven't the skill level, yet)  I salute you for hopping on that grenade, Sir! ( )

[jcf]

Bat-Boat redux. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Bat_Boat

[PR19_Kit]

Ah, the Bat Boat. I had a vacform of one of them but it was way beyond my skills in the rigging dept. Nice looking aircraft.

[zenrat]

Bat-Boat redux. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Bat_Boat

I like that.
Apart from a hull I have enough spare parts to knock up something like that.  And the hull could be scratched up as it's all single radius curves by the look of it.
I'll have to get fiddling with cardboard templates.