Quote from: PR19_Kit on October 23, 2024, 12:26:47 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on October 23, 2024, 11:15:56 AMAin't the float on the B.20 like half the fuselage in size ?
Or damn close to it..I know it's a bloody big chunk of alloy ..remember it's a wiffy so it's gonna work anyway 
But it's also got to look right ..I do know it'll look damn good tho and weird..I like 

Yes it is, as wide as the B.20's fuselage and about 2/3 the height. It won't fit as well on the He-119 as that's got a low wing, but it should work technically OK.

It'll need tip floats too, but I have almost a full set of Aeroclub vacform floats in The Loft
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Something that large on your bird would look seriously wrong..apart from the low wing it's got a pretty slim fuselage aswell ..so now aesthetics come into play.
This will be a challenge bud ..but one I think will be worth the effort 👌

Personally I'd go with the single struts for each float. Add a couple of thin bracing struts and the ladder and you're done.

Given that you are still working on the He-119, may I suggest an amendment to the thread title?    To quote a nineteenth century hymn writer, "Perchance it is not dead but merely sleepeth"    I'm delighted to see work continuing, and eagerly await the finished model and backstory.

Quote from: Rheged on October 24, 2024, 02:41:36 AMGiven that you are still working on the He-119, may I suggest an amendment to the thread title?    To quote a nineteenth century hymn writer, "Perchance it is not dead but merely sleepeth"    I'm delighted to see work continuing, and eagerly await the finished model and backstory.

That, or its UNDEAD...

Quote from: zenrat on October 24, 2024, 03:33:57 AM

Quote from: Rheged on October 24, 2024, 02:41:36 AMGiven that you are still working on the He-119, may I suggest an amendment to the thread title?    To quote a nineteenth century hymn writer, "Perchance it is not dead but merely sleepeth"    I'm delighted to see work continuing, and eagerly await the finished model and backstory.

That, or its UNDEAD...

Rather it's only mostly dead, instead of totally dead.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

(" . . . In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming . . . That's not dead . . . which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die!") 

Quote from: Dizzyfugu on October 24, 2024, 04:29:14 AMPh'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!

(" . . . In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming . . . That's not dead . . . which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die!") 

Iä! Iä! Cthulhu Fhtagn!

Thread drift a go-go. 

Actually it only looks slim from side on, from above it's a fat old bird, see the pic earlier in the thread. But it is pretty difficult drawing up a single float with twice the displacement of the existing ones and finding somewhere for it to retract into under that quite short fuselage. Unlike the B.20 the float has to miss the single prop in both positions, and it ends up being VERY deep to be short enough and have a large enough volume.

From the above you'll have gathered I spent a fair amount of time calculating and drawing last night............

Quote from: PR19_Kit on October 24, 2024, 05:07:14 AMThread drift a go-go. 

Actually it only looks slim from side on, from above it's a fat old bird, see the pic earlier in the thread. But it is pretty difficult drawing up a single float with twice the displacement of the existing ones and finding somewhere for it to retract into under that quite short fuselage. Unlike the B.20 the float has to miss the single prop in both positions, and it ends up being VERY deep to be short enough and have a large enough volume.

From the above you'll have gathered I spent a fair amount of time calculating and drawing last night............

Can we expect tales of Heinkel espionage in the Blackburn works in the backstory, or was it the other way round?

Quote from: Rheged on October 24, 2024, 06:55:10 AMCan we expect tales of Heinkel espionage in the Blackburn works in the backstory, or was it the other way round?

Probably both.   

The He 119 was ahead of the B.20 timewise as the B.20 didn't fly till March 1940 so there could have been a bit of cross-fertilisation I guess.

The B.20's one of my FAVE aeroplanes, it's just so bizarre, and I have a kit of one somewhere, donated to me by the late Mike McEvoy.     My Whiffed in-service version has the working title of the Blackburn Bolton.