Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[zenrat]

Looks great Eric.  Although IRL those floats wouldn't be up to the job - Wyverns weigh a lot more than you expect.

[Tophe]

Very compact, looking so much powerful...

[ericr]

thanks !

in whif world, weightless spirits floats more easily 

I usually apply a length criterion : floats between 1/2 and 3/4 the fuselage length.
Considering my floatplanes are unarmed, and emptied of everything unnecessary, it also makes them lighter 

[zenrat]

If you just go by the "if it looks right it is right" rule then it's great.

[ericr]

If you just go by the "if it looks right it is right" rule then it's great.

that's it, the looks, in 3D but essentially the silhouettes 

[reddfoxx]

That's lovely!

[ericr]

thanks again !

[ericr]

I had found a few 1/700 catapults, IJN and USnavy, and had to find :
-1- a support : the 1/720 Hipper looked fine, and added an Ar196
-2- catapultable stuff : that is 1/700 He60s

[TheChronicOne]

Too cool, man!  Loving the primary treatment on this one. 

All the planes and cats...  who needs guns; It's an aircraft carrier!

[DogfighterZen]

Great stuff, Eric! Love the Wyvern on floats!

[ericr]

thanks a lot !

[ericr]

you may remember this 1/72 Tornado

a nice hybrid in itself, historically built from floats of a Ju52 : this is the russian 1/72 kit

I also bought (at sales price) the 1/35 kit, but was stopped by the intuition that the huge floats could be used for a big plane (kitbashing at 1/72 ...), and then I had to invent something not to spoil the Tornado kit ... and an idea came to me, which enabled me to use some of my stash at the same time ... with a sketch of a whif story :

At the end of the war, when the germans were trying out their Tornado, there was a shortage at Ju52 floats, so they had to replace floatation support. There was however a good supply of cheap dinghies, so the solution consisted of an assembly of sufficient quantities of dinghies to support the cabin as well as the jet engine. Maximum reachable speed remained undocumented though.

[NARSES2]

I can actually "see" that in camouflage somewhere in either the Baltic or the Black Sea. 

[TheChronicOne]

 

Bad to the bone, man!

[Tophe]

Nice models, again