Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[ericr]

thanks!

If people feel inspired they are of course welcome : better skills can be applied, and I practice monochrome primary liveries, but others are of course possible

[ericr]

another one I had been thinking about for a long time, and recently at a show in my hometown I stumbled upon a classic Frog Gannet for 3 euros ... and I had this other Twin Otter float available.

So here it comes, in blue :







For outrigger floats, I use drop tanks : I find it looks nice, and it does have some root in the RW after all, as can be seen here :

[Captain Canada]

Love the look of the Gannet ! Looks like a low rider  And thanks for the pics of the drop tank wing floats....glad you found that as now it'll be super easy to make them 

[Tophe]

Beautiful as a floatplane while ugly as a Gannet... what a mix, great!

[ericr]

drop tanks are a nice solution indeed 

and the Gannet does look a bit low : part of its odd charm I guess

[ericr]

from a very old Airfix bagged kit of the Hawker Demon, I first did a twin-float version by adapting floats from a Letov S-328 (both kits I found for 2 euros each ...), and then, following a forum discussion, I decided to change for a single central float version (also because it offers me the possibility to proceed to one more floatplanization, as you will soon see  )

and it does look like a Hawker Osprey indeed 

[PR19_Kit]

It's a Monosprey............ 

Great work nonetheless. In an NM scheme with FAA fuselage bands it'd sit very well on a Whif SIG stand and fool oodles of JMNs. Where did the single float come from please Ericr?

The tip floats look like P-51 drop tanks......

[If course this has NOTHING to do with my recent find of an Airfix bagged Demon kit in The Loft........ ]

[ericr]

thaks a lot PR19_Kit !

the Monosprey seems to have existed actually :



and a Short competitor looking very similar :



the main float is from a KP kit of the Letov S_328, and the tip floats from my scratch box : they were dark green plastic, maybe from a P51?

In an NM scheme with FAA fuselage bands it'd sit very well on a Whif SIG stand and fool oodles of JMNs.

...

[If course this has NOTHING to do with my recent find of an Airfix bagged Demon kit in The Loft........ ]

just do it 

[ericr]

another one :

[ericr]

here I am back again after days of being imprisoned outside ...

novelties here soon ...

[Tophe]

novelties here soon ...

Please, clock, move faster for us to enjoy those novelties...

[ericr]

not so much a whiff, but for color maybe, but with floats definitely :

[ericr]

Nice

Could even add some thick red and blue diaginal stripes for a Magnum P.I.- ish look.

http://magnum-mania.com/images/opening_credits_low_flying_chopper_full.jpg

thanx!

the stripes design is nice indeed ; I must say that I do my painting by hand with brushes, rather worn usually, so it wouldn't be easy : I have extremely basic skills indeed, quite the same as when I was an early teenager i'm afraid 

[ericr]

a jet float plane again, blue this time :

[Weaver]

Oh the Iskra look pretty!

You just have to leave that awful cockpit moulding open right?   (Trust me, it isn't any better if you go for the single-seat option...)

EDIT: hey Ericr, you like monocrome blues: did you ever see my H.A.T. build? http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,38469.60.html