Swoopy 'Moustache' Seaplane

[kitflubber]

Team Zissou paint job in progress. (a la 'the Life Aquatic')

[ElectrikBlue]

Great, love the new 'curvy' propeller blades!

[sequoiaranger]

I am AWESOMELY amazed and appreciative of the CAD rendering talents needed to produce the seaplane (rivets and all) and decoration. W-O-W!

>Great, love the new 'curvy' propeller blades!<

The Antonov An-2 biplane workhorse of the Soviets had such propellers in the 1940's. I never quite got around to making an An-2 carrier torpedo bomber out of it (and have now sold off the V.E.B. kits of it), but you can BET I would have had the curvy blades!

[I had no end of trouble trying to find a pic of the curved blades on the Internet to post here. I **MAY** have some personal research material I can peruse that might have it--worth seeing!]

[Daryl J.]

 

[cthulhu77]

Love it !

[kitflubber]

Thanks guys! It does not look like I've spent hours on this since last post,but I've built all the wing and engine textures (except the exhaust), put in wheel wells, and resculpted the wing control surfaces. -- Oh, and I made blurred props. Still do not have it quite perfected.

[cthulhu77]

Fantastic !!!  I think the blurs are great, very effective.

[kitflubber]

Thanks, Greg!

Closeup of body:

[kitflubber]

View of port engine and wing from cockpit.

[cthulhu77]

If Penelope Pitstop had this plane, she'd probably do something like this to it.



http://images.google.com/images?q=penelope%20pitstop&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

Now, that tops Pink completely !!!!!

[Daryl J.]

Hey, my kindergarten aged kids know who she is!    I'll have to show them.  I bet they'll want a Dick Dastardly version too. 

The oil canning is phenom!



Daryl J.

[kitflubber]

Coast Guard Livery -- did this at lunch break.

[kitflubber]

Antipiracy version.

[Tophe]

delicious, congratulations

[kitflubber]

Thank you, Tophe -- I discovered how to do highlights today -- did not know how to make them work properly.