Inspiration

[PR19_Kit]

I have yet to see anybody build a C-130 Hercules amphibian plane.  I always hear and read about this from time to time in books and elsewhere, but never see anybody make a model.
http://www.c-130hercules.net/reference-info/articles/a-c-130-hercules-amphibian-makes-too-much-sense-to-be-true-r4/

Lockheed built as large scale radio-controlled model of the project themselves, but I've never seen a plastic model of it either. Time, and a GB, for a resurrection perhaps?

[jalles]

I have yet to see anybody build a C-130 Hercules amphibian plane.  I always hear and read about this from time to time in books and elsewhere, but never see anybody make a model.

I was actually thinking about doing this but I couldn't find a good donor for the seaplane portion.  The Hercules is pretty wide and every seaplane donor I found was too narrow.

[PR19_Kit]

I have yet to see anybody build a C-130 Hercules amphibian plane.  I always hear and read about this from time to time in books and elsewhere, but never see anybody make a model.

I was actually thinking about doing this but I couldn't find a good donor for the seaplane portion.  The Hercules is pretty wide and every seaplane donor I found was too narrow.

How about a Sunderland? The old Airfix kit should be pretty cheap these days, and it's not exactly small.

[jalles]

How about a Sunderland? The old Airfix kit should be pretty cheap these days, and it's not exactly small.

Yeah, that was one that I thought of.  I think it's still too narrow, the diagram below should be to scale.

[rickshaw]

Cut the Sunderland's hull lengthwise and add a "filler" piece of plasticard.  Angle the sides outwards slightly and it should mate with the C-130's hull.   If you need to lengthen the hull, cut it behind the first step and add a section from plasticard (with supports).  Use plenty of filler to make it all match up, PSR, repeat.   

[philp]

Also a lot of seaplanes in Porco Rosso including:

[Mossie]

I have yet to see anybody build a C-130 Hercules amphibian plane.  I always hear and read about this from time to time in books and elsewhere, but never see anybody make a model.

I was actually thinking about doing this but I couldn't find a good donor for the seaplane portion.  The Hercules is pretty wide and every seaplane donor I found was too narrow.

Same here, but I don't think I'll be able to dedicate the time.  If I was going to do it, I'd probably carve the hull from balsa.  I've done this for a boat hull and it was surprisingly easy.

[Caveman]

Bit of a rare one. Float Rota 1 (cierva c30)

This was the only one in reality. But could be one of a number on board a sea-gyro tender?

[NARSES2]

Love the magazine cover

[PR19_Kit]

Bit of a rare one. Float Rota 1 (cierva c30)

This was the only one in reality. But could be one of a number on board a sea-gyro tender?

You couldn't find a big pic then? 

I never knew about that, and I've got a kit of a Rota 1 too, hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[Caveman]

Still finding my way with imgur my previous *not to be named* photo host allowed me to select a size of picture to post.

[Old Wombat]

You can do something like this when linking the image img width=800]https://i.imgur.com/8eTmhqt.jpg[/img (just remember to put the [ at the beginning & the ] at the end, & underlined italics & bold for illustration purposes only).

[Weaver]

Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

Don't know about that, but have you seen the size of that torpedo ? Either the crew are midgets or it's ..........

In Soviet Union, torpedo drop you...

[rickshaw]

Seriously, you lot all need to be re-re-educated!

Don't know about that, but have you seen the size of that torpedo ? Either the crew are midgets or it's ..........

Is Tsar Torpedo!  Is designed to protect the shores of the Rodina from the Capitalist military-industrial complex sea pirates who seek to attack it!   

Da, tovarishch!

Видеть! Товарищ рикша показал истинное понимание научной социалистической революционной оборонительной военной доктрины! Да здравствует Родина!



(Tranlate for foreign comrades of socialist revolution: Videt'! Tovarishch riksha pokazal istinnoye ponimaniye nauchnoy sotsialisticheskoy revolyutsionnoy oboronitel'noy voyennoy doktriny! Da zdravstvuyet Rodina!)
(Translate for capitalist pig-dogs & vulgar lackies: See! Comrade rickshaw has shown true understanding of scientific socialist revolutionary defensive military doctrine! Long live the Motherland!)

Da, Comrade!  Da!

Мое революционное рвение исходит от учебы в Народном университете. У меня есть степень Риторики! Я получил награды первого класса от Народного комитета по замене сосков для тракторов!

[Кроме того, товарищи, нам нужно наблюдать за этим парнем, он, похоже, является стремительным контрреволюционным реваншистом!]   

[Old Wombat]