Glenn's Current Modeling Projects

Glenn · February 07, 2011, 06:26:58 PM

Today I'm back with the Boeing Clipper almost finished. Now it is set in a diorama, including the two boats, the boat crew and passengers are all that is left to finish this model.
Glenn

GTX · February 07, 2011, 11:33:46 PM

Stargazer · February 08, 2011, 01:40:00 AM

Beauty!!!

NARSES2 · February 08, 2011, 03:14:12 AM

Quote from: Stargazer2006 on February 08, 2011, 01:40:00 AM
Beauty!!!

Yup

Mossie · February 08, 2011, 03:15:39 AM

Oooh yeah, nice Clipper Glenn!

Tophe · February 08, 2011, 09:34:09 AM

Great!

What is the sea made of? (the answer "water" would mean: "secret!", all right...)

apophenia · February 08, 2011, 02:21:02 PM

Nice

Gotta love dioramas with water.

Glenn · February 08, 2011, 06:29:58 PM

Tophe, the water is made from white foam, (used to make surf boards) and covered in cardboard triangles to represent the waves, then covered with tissue paper. The tissue paper is cut in irregular shapes so there are no straight lines. The colour is a mix of dark sea blue, JN green and off white to lighten the other two colours and added later to look like wave tips.
Once finished, given a coating of clear resin to give that 'wet look'.

Photo today is another flying boat, the replacement of the Finnmark. It is 1/48 and with that unusual shape......easily worked out?
Glenn

Tophe · February 08, 2011, 08:09:55 PM

Thanks for the detailed diorama explanation, Master

Stargazer · February 09, 2011, 02:11:43 AM

Looks like a Sikorsky S-39 to me... Or maybe the strange German Ente?

Glenn · February 09, 2011, 06:26:15 PM

Good one mate.....yes, an S.39A. She should look good in Pan Am markings!

Last one again, for a while with the Barkley Grow and her tails. At present I'm working on the cowlings.
Glenn

McColm · February 10, 2011, 02:42:51 AM

Didn't,
Lockheed do a similar design, passenger/transporter?
lovely designs. Sorry mental block...

Stargazer · February 10, 2011, 04:28:06 AM

Quote from: McColm on February 10, 2011, 02:42:51 AM
Didn't,
Lockheed do a similar design, passenger/transporter?
lovely designs. Sorry mental block...

The Barkley-Grow T8P1, the Beechcraft 18 Twin Beech/Expeditor, the Lockheed 12 Electra Junior and a few more followed the same general basic configuration.

McColm · February 10, 2011, 09:55:46 AM

thanks, I thought I'd seen that before.

apophenia · February 10, 2011, 02:23:00 PM

Quote from: Glenn on February 09, 2011, 06:26:15 PM
Last one again, for a while with the Barkley Grow and her tails...

Yay, good to see Glenn.

Dare we hope for a third tail fin and floats?

BTW: big difference between the Barkley-Grow and the Beechcraft or Lockheed 10/12 series was the wing structure. The T8P-1 had a 'cellular' wing structure, the others had more conventional spar-and-rib structures.