Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[ericr]

thanks! I'll try and post progress reports ...

[ericr]

a Sabre on a single central float :







should look good on a catapult, soon ...

[ericr]

a Sabre on a single central float :

...
should look good on a catapult, soon ...

like on this preview (colors not yet ready   ):

[Captain Canada]

Love it. I want to build that now. Pretty sure it'll be camo tho lol. What float did you use ?

[ericr]

the float come from an old cheap Frog Swordfish

Please make one more normally painted 
Especially a canadian livery would fit the natural relationship of the country with floatplanes

[ericr]

an new floatplane : the PZL 39 (with floats coming from a 1/48 MC72) :







funnily, it looks a bit like a Fiat RS14

[Dizzyfugu]

Pretty! 

A whif that I have on my agenda, too. Maybe for Turkey, which ordered the aircraft, but the machines were never delivered, and a floatplane/torpedo version makes sense.

[Tophe]

a floatplane/torpedo version makes sense.

No need of "sense", invention is even more pleasant (according to me) without a good reason

[ericr]

thanks!

please do your own version if the "concept" pleases you!
I personally favour single color, just because it highlights the shapes in themselves,
but I can imagine that a more realistic livery can make it :
imagination combined with making sense can augment the surprise 
(isn't that close to the definition of fantastic litterature by the way?)

[Dizzyfugu]

The Los reminds me, with its narrow fuselage, a lot of the He 115 floatplane, hence the idea to mount swimmers. Maybe from a Twin Otter.

[ericr]

I couldn't resist :
while looking for another kit, I stumbled upon a seller whoa also had Hasegawa's Alf with a catapult :
I already have that catapult from the Alf and painted it blue,
and another one coming with Hasegawa's jake, painted red,
so now I just had to have one more to paint it yellow ...
It will come nicely on the Flower Class boat mentioned above, as an alternative to the other ones.

Resistance is futile.

[ericr]

here it is :



with a blue Iskra :



or a red HD-780 :

[ericr]

thanks !

more to come : I could take pictures of most of my seaplanes collections on my catapults ...

all the more so when they will be mounted on the Flower Class ship, whiffed as a seaplane tender !

[ericr]

[PR19_Kit]

That single float Spitfire looks loads better than the real world twin float version, even if its buoyancy situation might be a bit marginal.