Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[zenrat]

Beautiful finish on the paint Eric.
Your red builds always look best IMO.

[ericr]

thanks !

red comes out fine, easier than yellow usually

[NARSES2]

Beautiful finish on the paint Eric.

Totally agree 

red comes out fine, easier than yellow usually

Yup. I now undercoat with pale pink when using yellow. Sounds daft but it works.

Worst colour I've used lately is orange, hell of a problem. Needed a lot of coats to get anything even vaguely reasonable

[zenrat]

Orange and yellow always give me problems on car models.  If I don't pay real close attention I end up with the bonnet a slightly different shade to the rest of the car.

[ericr]

thanks for the tips, I'll try undercoats in the future
(if building urgency allows me to  )

[kerick]

I know white is good under yellow so it should help under orange. It helps under red too.

[Librarian]

That is beautiful . New Hasegawa kit?

[jcf]

this build was first devoid of hull and floats, but was subsequently improved, and consequently moved from
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,37003.900.html
to here, where it now belongs :

1/28 Camel, wooden kit of da Vinci designed wings, hull from an old three masted "Hamphitrite", side floats are fuel barrels from two 1/48 P-61 :

Ader 26 novembre 1901- Bateau glissant sur l'eau.
http://alain.vassel.pagesperso-orange.fr/biographie-ader4.html

[ericr]

That is beautiful . New Hasegawa kit?

thanks !

yes, and it is a good kit, very fine.

[ericr]

Ader 26 novembre 1901- Bateau glissant sur l'eau.
http://alain.vassel.pagesperso-orange.fr/biographie-ader4.html

thanks for the link, very nice 

[ericr]

I got hold of a (cheap) Italeri 1/48 Skyraider, as well as of a pair of Airfix Ju-52 floats, and their size did fit
(the profiled struts are optional wings end from a (very cheap) 1/24 Harrier for I have ongoing activity ...) :
the color can be thought of as a firefighting floatplane exercise, a role for which some Skuraiders were equipped I think,
and the floatplane relevance was convincingly established by e.g. movies like Planes 2.

[Tophe]

Your model is much more harmonious than a classical Skyraider, congratulations!

[Librarian]

  it!! Always wondered about a Spad with floats...looks gooood . Right type of Skyraider too .

[Captain Canada]

Nice one ! Love the floats on her, especially on that style of Skyraider.

[ericr]

thanks !
in the past I had tried a 1/72 version, with another type, the Ravelle (Matchbox?) one with a larger canopy and seatings for a group of passengers