how (un)reasonable would this be ?
(https://imgur.com/hqayRa2.jpg)
(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)
Cool. Like a batboatplane.
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.
Gonna be a nice mix !
:thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 05, 2017, 03:56:31 PM
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)
(https://imgur.com/0dgbwFw.jpg)
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 ...
(https://imgur.com/n4ZaGcB.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/JCPeLJB.jpg)
That's looking promising already. :thumbsup:
Thanks for the info on the S-38 kit, I may look for one.
Wicked...!
Wow! I thought "impossible" to match those parts, but it seems you are going to succeed, incredibly! :thumbsup: :bow:
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
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.
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! ( ;D)
Bat-Boat redux. :thumbsup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Bat_Boat
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fflyingmachines.ru%2FImages7%2FPutnam%2FBrit_Early%2F244-2.jpg&hash=0878d39bae4021247396c77e540c25ebc7c7ceff)
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.
Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on December 06, 2017, 07:14:27 PM
Bat-Boat redux. :thumbsup:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_Bat_Boat
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fflyingmachines.ru%2FImages7%2FPutnam%2FBrit_Early%2F244-2.jpg&hash=0878d39bae4021247396c77e540c25ebc7c7ceff)
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.
thanks all !
I do recognize that the stealth aspect was not in my plan : I just considered : (a) a hull (b) a wing (c) engines
which were enough ingerdients for a potential flying boat.
The bat boat is a bit like that actually : ait looks like a small boat with added-on wings ;
a bit like the russian flying tank glider was a tank with biplane wings attached.
I like the collage / hybrid / chimera aspect of all this : chance meetings on a dissecting/modelling table ;D
The same reasoning applied to the Corsaire boat and biplane wings in the other thread :
RW evaluation is obviously cautiously kept under a carpet or two :wacko:
Quote from: zenrat on December 07, 2017, 12:16:08 AM
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.
That's the 1914 configuration, the 1913 and 1915 versions are different.
Bat-Boat #1 had a hull built at the Saunders works using Saunders
Consuta sewn ply technique and looked very much like a period
speedboat.
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/flyboat/batboat.html
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airwar.ru%2Fimage%2Fidop%2Fflyboat%2Fbatboat%2Fbatboat-1.gif&hash=6132a0e13a5b50789c0cac060a5e540a31f5c713)
The
Bat-Boat was named for the winged racing boats of Kipling's
With the Night Mail.
(https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forgottenfutures.com%2Fgame%2Fff1%2Fad6.gif&hash=2d77ba5d05c21e23cc10f381f9c55a271cf5d3ef)
Woooooah, that one's even better.
I built a canoe using the sewn plywood technique.
some progress, after an accident during the primer spraying ...
(https://imgur.com/oUQm9rQ.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/T0mAHq3.jpg)
a bit beyond my skills, but
now ready to be blued
the canopy comes from a 1/72 Ju52
That's going to look superb. :thumbsup:
thanks !
paint is drying (Humbrol enamel gloss 14, the usual blue)
it will be great :thumbsup:
This is becoming better and better! :thumbsup:
thanks !
here it comes, in blue :
(https://imgur.com/HcDaB2k.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/1dTVOyo.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/0v2PgJM.jpg)
(https://imgur.com/6NHdnkf.jpg)
Came out well, :thumbsup:
Just needs a splash of yellow and silver and some WASP stickers and you'd have Stingray Ver.2.0
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Stingray+(1964+TV+series)&client=safari&hl=en-gb&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecTozC3w8sc9YSmrSWtOXmM04eIKzsgvd80rySypFFLjYoOyZLh4pTj1c_UNDLPL0ws1GKS4uRBcHgBa5s-lSAAAAA&prmd=visn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju_5yl8IfYAhXICJoKHXC2CCYQ_AUIEigC&biw=1024&bih=649#imgrc=LJV2sKNvm3ljMM:
That should lead you to a picture for those of you unsure what I'm on about.
Regards
Keith
Very good, an excellent mixture of ancient and modern. :thumbsup:
:wub: So: miracles do exist, this is now proven! :bow:
That turned out rather well. Good job.
:thumbsup:
Wonderfully odd creation. :thumbsup:
Cool, man!!!
thanks all !
as I noted earlier, a bit borderline of my skills, but I managed to hide enough of the frailties to get lookable pictures ;D