Arado Ar 196

[Radish]

Many, many possibilities:

straight-forward repaints
modifiocations like new cowlings as required for foreign production
new airframe additions, such as dorsal fin, radar, bigger engine, different canopy, V-tail, T-tail, skis, wheels, etc.....

Thinking of several possibilities, of which I know only a tiny fraction will be made.....

Ski-equipped Finnish Air Force
RAF SEATO colours
Japanese
Spanish postwar
RCAF ski
Canadian civil
Italian Navy
South Vietnamese
French Navy
USN.....etc., etc.,  etc.....

[Radish]

While I'mthinking of using the rather nice Airfix 1/72nd kit....easy to build and work on, a ski-equipped 1/32nd model, using the Revell kit, would be amazing....

Small diorama on ice/snow, with "winter" uniform figures....Meerkat heads?

Looking exceptional in Finnish markings, eh??

[NARSES2]

Ski equipped Finnish 

[mkhulu]

SAAF (WWII) used both the Junkers Ju-86 (ex-SAA machines) as well as the Tante Ju (Ju-52)

What about a SA Navy Ar-196 , hunting U-Boats in the Mozambique Channel (together with SAAF / RAF Catalinas)

[Go4fun]

Don't forget the ski ropes.

[Radish]

I think the Finnish one is essential, and a Japanese one too.....certainly something for the "Japanese SIG" to fight over

And one from Chile would be nice...midnight blue??

[Radish]

South African 

[Gondor]

If I remember correctly the French one was real life, at least as deception marking by the Germans.

Gondor

[The Wooksta!]

A landplane version in Chilean service would make sense, given that they used the earlier landplane version of the Ar 95.

[Radish]

Good ideas.....

And the Japanese were "supposed" to have agreed for the German Navy to fly 2 Ar 193s in Japanese Navy markings from Singapore.

[CANSO]

While I'mthinking of using the rather nice Airfix 1/72nd kit....

... and rather wrong by the way! For 1:72 only the Encore model is good. Have all 3 of them - Revell, Airfix, Encore in 1:72. Airfix is the worst; Revell is not that bad, but has some flaws, Encore is the best.
See here
BTW the kit has Bulgarian (real) and Romanian (fictitious - Romania never had Ar-196 even if many sources show profiles of this a/c in Romanian duty) camouflage.

[Radish]

But Airfix is nice to build.....couldn't give a toss for accuracy

[The Wooksta!]

The Revell and Encore kits are both the same tool - the Heller one!

[lancer]

I turned the AR196 from a float plane into a carrier based torpedo plane once It looked pretty good as a land plane.

[sequoiaranger]

>I turned the AR196 from a float plane into a carrier based torpedo plane once It looked pretty good as a land plane.<

I made a "carrier-based scout-bomber" from one. I think it is too light a plane to tackle a torpedo (c. 1000kg), frankly, and mine was arbitrarily limited to a "maximim" 250kg bombload (good only for the light, "corsair carriers" like the KM Graf Fitti  


http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashita/graffi_f.htm  ).