S-38 & B2

[ericr]

thanks all !

I do recognize that the stealth aspect was not in my plan : I just considered : (a) a hull (b) a wing (c) engines
which were enough ingerdients for a potential flying boat.

The bat boat is a bit like that actually : ait looks like a small boat with added-on wings ;
a bit like the russian flying tank glider was a tank with biplane wings attached.
I like the collage / hybrid / chimera aspect of all this : chance meetings on a dissecting/modelling table

The same reasoning applied to the Corsaire boat and biplane wings in the other thread :
RW evaluation is obviously cautiously kept under a carpet or two 

[jcf]

I like that.
Apart from a hull I have enough spare parts to knock up something like that.  And the hull could be scratched up as it's all single radius curves by the look of it.
I'll have to get fiddling with cardboard templates.

That's the 1914 configuration, the 1913 and 1915 versions are different.

Bat-Boat #1 had a hull built at the Saunders works using Saunders
Consuta sewn ply technique and looked very much like a period
speedboat.

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/flyboat/batboat.html



The Bat-Boat was named for the winged racing boats of Kipling's With the Night Mail.

[zenrat]

Woooooah, that one's even better.
I built a canoe using the sewn plywood technique.

[ericr]

some progress, after an accident during the primer spraying ...





a bit beyond my skills, but
now ready to be blued

the canopy comes from a 1/72 Ju52

[PR19_Kit]

That's going to look superb. 

[ericr]

thanks !

paint is drying (Humbrol enamel gloss 14, the usual blue)

[jsport]

it will be great

[Tophe]

This is becoming better and better!

[ericr]

thanks !

[ericr]

here it comes, in blue :

[TallEng]

Came out well,
Just needs a splash of yellow and silver and some WASP stickers and you'd have Stingray Ver.2.0

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Stingray+(1964+TV+series)&client=safari&hl=en-gb&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgecTozC3w8sc9YSmrSWtOXmM04eIKzsgvd80rySypFFLjYoOyZLh4pTj1c_UNDLPL0ws1GKS4uRBcHgBa5s-lSAAAAA&prmd=visn&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju_5yl8IfYAhXICJoKHXC2CCYQ_AUIEigC&biw=1024&bih=649#imgrc=LJV2sKNvm3ljMM:

That should lead you to a picture for those of you unsure what I'm on about.

Regards
Keith

[PR19_Kit]

Very good, an excellent mixture of ancient and modern. 

[Tophe]

  So: miracles do exist, this is now proven!

[zenrat]

That turned out rather well.  Good job.

[Mossie]

Wonderfully odd creation.