Seaknight & M16, red : primary seaplanes

[Tophe]

Weird! (I mean: wonderful:)
As there is no thick XB-35 wing, where are the engines buried in? inside the fuselage? (with shafts and gears? complex! high technology!)

[PR19_Kit]

There's certainly room for all that in a Sunderland's ENORMOUS fuselage, so why not?

[ericr]

 

[ericr]

the wings from the Osprey seen there :

https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=37003.msg909184#msg909184

came here :

[McColm]

Wow a Martin Mariner and Osprey  Not the Mach2 kit!

[Tophe]

Wow a Martin Mariner and Osprey 

That is my feeling too: wow!

[kerick]

Very interesting! Makes me wonder how that would work in the real world. Some serious spray from the exhaust and rotor wash!

[ericr]

thanks !

one inspiration was the Convair Advanced autogyro :

[Tophe]

single blade rotor? amazing!

[NARSES2]

That's fantastic Eric 

Where on earth do you get your ideas from ? Or do you just play/experiment with parts until something works, in the way some modern artists do ? Whatever it produces amazing results

[ericr]

thanks !

I do look at the kits and try out according to general shapes,
and sometimes when there are several choices, I go for the most surprising,
while trying to remain a little bit plausible because that makes the funniest effect 

[NARSES2]

while trying to remain a little bit plausible because that makes the funniest effect 

Certainly does., and most of them are far more plausible than some of the 1945 "Napkinwaffe" 

[McColm]

The closest real world was the Kamman K-16B that used the Grumman Goose with tilting wings.

[ericr]

absolutely ! an inspiration w.r.t. wing floats attachment (but then, simplified)

[McColm]

absolutely ! an inspiration w.r.t. wing floats attachment (but then, simplified)

Looks like a future build either Real World or whiff, by changing the engines. Which reminds me that I must finish off my Mach2 Martin Mariner.