Vickers Sea Wimpy Mk.I

[CSMO]

A proposal was made for a FAA floatplane bomber. Vickers submitted a modified Wellington on floats.  performance was satisfactory for range, payload, and speed(20kph less than the standard Mk.I).

This is the second one of these that I have built. The first was in 1965. It was painted White, Red, and Silver with Red Cross markings. The floats and exhausts are survivors of the first build. The airframe is a stock old Airfix Wellington built OOB. The floats came from the old Airfix Junkers Ju.52-3m. The struts are 40 year-old Contrail stock. All that I needed to do was fill the wheel-wells with card and putty. The paint is Testors square-bottle paints mixed to match Extra Dark Sea Grey and Slate Grey over Trainer Yellow. All markings came from my scrap-box. Excuse the crappy iPhone photo. It is the only one that I have stored in my PC.
Adios, Larry

[Dizzyfugu]

Interesting! 

[Mossie]

Wellington boots!  Looks plausible, like the Bolingbroke III.

[PR19_Kit]

I do like that! 

Lateral thinking at its best, but it must been a job to align the floats, fuselage and all those struts. Nice job.

[CSMO]

I cheated on the floats. I cut slots in the wings, nacelles, and floats just barely bigger than the struts which I cut over long. I could slide the parts and the struts to get each where I wanted it then glued it. I touched up any small gaps with white glue and sealed the glue with Future. Adios, Larry.

[Dizzyfugu]

Wellington boots!

LOL! So, that's how the 'Wellies' were born...

[NARSES2]

Wellington boots!  Looks plausible, like the Bolingbroke III.

Very much so - works well for me  Great imagination

[tc2324]

Great idea and execution. 

As said, very plausible as well. The RAF went through a phase at the start of the war by putting floats on most types so no reason to think they wouldn`t of thought about it for their new`ish` bomber.

[CSMO]

I have a C.A.N.T. Z.506 on the shelves that has about the same weight and dimensions. I merely copied the strut layout. My 1965 model used the spindly Ju.52-3m struts that came with that kit. Adios, Larry.

[Tophe]

Nice seaplane...

[Librarian]

It does seem so strange that we didn't do more with floats out in the Med and Pacific. Anyone ever put floats on a Beaufighter...that would would be good . Very nice .

[Mossie]

Did a floatplane P-40 once.  Backstory put it as a Camship replacement for the Hurricane, but it could easily be placed in the med or pacific.
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20343.0/highlight,goshawk.html

[NARSES2]

Built a Caudron CR.714 floatplane years ago. Was a hasty conversion used by the French in Oran to ward off Italian recce flights after the fall of mainland France

[kitnut617]

Nice idea with the Wimpy

I put floats on a Shackleton ---

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,16956.0/highlight,avro+nottingham.html

[ericr]

excellent floatplanization!

I like to floatplanize nearly anything myself, from Fokker Dr.1 to F-14 or Harrier :
I hadn't thought of a Wellington yet :  (and the Shackleton as well, indeed!)