Fp-40 Floatplane

[nev]

Doth mine eyes deceive me???!!!    

Has the Bazman actually finished another kit???  Whilst moving house???


Love the weathering on the underside of the floats Barry, great stuff  B)  

[bluntie]

Done it again! ,the more you build the more i get inspired,just keep 'em comming JHM.

[John Howling Mouse]

Thanks, guys!!!  Now, if I could just pull off a waterline diorama...

[ysi_maniac]

Can a human work so?

        (thinking in leaving modelling)

BTW: just perfect

[Mossie]

Baz, yet another beauty!  That hull red just really sets it off, gorgeous.  

[Sisko]

Stumbling around and found this!

Damn nice work Barry!!!!!!!!!

Love it  

[John Howling Mouse]

I had promised myself I'd share some in-progress painting pics with all of you after I finished the job, so here goes...

After the initial, home-brewed concoction of "sort-of-British-Sky" was added overall to the primered model, a good deal of the airplane was masked off for the next stage (a sort of USN Intermediate Blue with other colors added in).  

For the first time, I tried using our equivalent of 3M "Blu-Tac" poster-hanging putty.  Rolled out in long, narrow "sausages," this stuff was much easier to work with than I had expected and would yield a very desirable tight, yet feathered, demarcation b/w colors:





Then, more sausages for the next, deeper shade of grayish-blue:







The resulting three-color (camo, anyhow) scheme:

[cthulhu77]

Hey now Sir John !  That came out just about perfectly !  What a suprise, right? ^_^

   That colour scheme is right on target, and the oxide primer of the floats really sets it off.

[Glenn Gilbertson]

Beautiful, inspired and inspiring! :salute:  

[Dork the kit slayer]

This has " a look" about it,a definite "look".

At the SIG met up there was a single float P40 being built that also had " a look"
must be something about the shape of the old P40 that lends itself to floatplane versions.