Becker's Giraffe.

[tigercat]

Another one for the menagerie

[zenrat]

Giraffe?
I'm thinking long neck.
A gun on a vertically telescoping mount for firing over sea-walls?

[ericr]

Giraffe?

what is meant by "Becker's"?

I am sticking my neck out because besides seaplanes, it is (one of) my other hobby(ies)

the intersection being :

[PR19_Kit]

That's a Sikorsky S-39, isn't it? WEIRD colour scheme though!

[Captain Canada]

Ya something telescoping.

[Gondor]

That's a Sikorsky S-39, isn't it? WEIRD colour scheme though!

That or some very bad paint cracking 

Gondor

[ericr]

That's a Sikorsky S-39, isn't it? WEIRD colour scheme though!

That or some very bad paint cracking 

Gondor

it is ***real world*** actually, owned in the 30s by a couple of cinema adventurers : Martin and Osa Johnson

and not only that, but it was coupled with a zebra one !

Sometimes real world does also has its charms ...

[tigercat]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Becker

[RAFF-35]

What an interesting man, never heard of Becker before, but I'm now assuming the the build is going to be a captured whiff 

[tigercat]

It's more that I've decided that he's the German equivalent of Hobart . So I'm currently doing German "Funnies "

[tigercat]

[tigercat]

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[PR19_Kit]

Ahah, the twin engine one is an S-38, made famous by another Johnson, Herbert Fisk Johnson, made an epic exploratory flight over much of Brazil looking for a sustainable source of carnauba wax.

There's a replica of that S-38 in the Oshkosh Museum and you can go aboard it for a simulated flight while sitting in wicker work seats and watching the flight back projected on the cockpit windscreen! I did it once, great fun.  

[PR19_Kit]

Yes, that does have a VERY long neck!