Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[Tophe]

nice! do you know which scale it is?

[Captain Canada]

Nice three some !

[ericr]

thanks ! it's 1/350 by Trumpeter

[ericr]

a truer whiff : I made a twin-float version of the Ro-43 :

[Captain Canada]

Looks great like that !

[ericr]

thanks!

could be done in 1/72 or 1/48 too I guess 

[ericr]

so I had these parts of the Loire 130 side floats, and I found out that the 1/144 Il-2 would have the appropriate size to fit them :

[Captain Canada]

I like it ! Could probably have the floats shot off in battle and still land on the water !

[ericr]

thanks ;-)

[ericr]

a resin kit, of very nice quality, and which I found not too expensive on e-b, of the Loire-Nieuport L.N.10 :

the whiff aspect is in the livery ; a backing story would be :
this particular LN10 was being prepared for a firefighting role, with appropriate red livery, when disorganisation of the society, due to invasive neighbouring countries, left the work unfinished, just after the first layer. What the airframe became afterwards remains unknown, due to the historical chaos.

[PR19_Kit]

That has to be one of the weirdest engine/float/wing configurations I've ever seen, but it looks very good and effective too.

How many of those did they build on the real world Ericr?

[Captain Canada]

Is that ever cool ! Looks great all red but for sure it's such an interesting shape ! I'll have to remember that one.

[NARSES2]

That has to be one of the weirdest engine/float/wing configurations I've ever seen, but it looks very good and effective too.

Couldn't of put it better myself 

There's a load of wonderful, weird or whacky (sometimes all 3 in the same design) stuff that came out of the French aircraft industry in the 30's.

[Tophe]

Thanks for this discovery (Google had pictures of her but one should know the name to ask for...)
I have made Lightning derivative drawings at http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,42372.60.html
Thanks again!

[ericr]

thanks all !

I think there was only a prototype, but well worth the seeing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loire-Nieuport_10

the french creativity was indeed astonishing, at least stylewise