Floats and Boats: Amphibious Aircraft Group Build

Scott, great scene you've put together here.  All the elements work very well with one another.   For a first time, that figure sculpting is quite respectable.

regards,

Jack

Nice job Scott . I like that scene, great work on all the elements and converting Sara into a woman and not an Amazon. The bottles make a nice touch as well.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments, I could not have completed this project without the forum and the great support here.  The talent and creativity I see just wants me to try harder to get to your guys level.   Unless a couple of 1/700 ships moving in water, or the scene of the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock I made out of cardboard in the 4th grade count, this was my first attempt at a diorama.  One thing I learned, after 30 some years in mechanical drawing and detailing as a profession, perspective and proportion are a lot harder to try to obtain in a scaled, three dimensional environment.  Diorama's seem to be a fun challenge to get everything to look right and be in proportion, and unlike 3D modeling on my computer, I just cannot give a command and everything goes into perspective.  I learned a lot on this project.  

Hey guys,

Sorry for the absence. Have been busy with life, had to do a move and have just now, like within the last 20 min., got internet access going. It was a short move, like I mean 5 min drive from where I was lol. The bench is up just still have to unpack and sort things out. so, will be back up and running soon. I tried to upload some pics awhile back but it t o o k s o  l o n g to get my library up and made the puter freeze. Hopefully now it will be better. If you see pics up shortly, you'll know lol.

Have been watching the posts, and some stellar work by all!! will catch up on all the posts soon.

WOOHOO!! much MUCH better speed now. OOOOOK, this is what I had gotten done before life reared its head. She's on her webbed feet now. Not quite a perfect fit on the struts but that's my fault not the kit.

Looks like your up and rolling after the move Simpilot.  Keep up the good work.  Was is hard to get it up on the floats?  Looks like its can be an alignment challenge.  

S34, that looks fantastic. It's really coming along.

BK

Great work on all the builds here. My Goose is on hold along with all my model building for a while - Life.

Meanwhile I will share another float plane build that is also on hold.

An old Monogram Cessna 180 in about 1/41 scale with a Heller 1/42 LandRover and some figures.

That looks good, Heepy. Looking forward to seeing the other one too.

BK

Hey guys, sorry for going under the radar.  I have been distracted from the Mach-2 Seamaster by Amodel's Be-10 "Mallow", its Soviet counterpart.  I started test fitting parts to see how the kit goes together, and can definitely state that it is a more enjoyable build!  One thing led to another, and enough progress has been made to request its entry into the GB.

Although the fuselage pieces have molded-in alignment tabs, they prevented a flush fit so they have all been removed and replaced with strip styrene.

https://flic.kr/p/MEfGTt][/url]Be-10-15 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/LWpwAF][/url]Be-10-18 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/MJAPkY][/url]Be-10-14 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/MMBYzD][/url]Be-10-16 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

And now alignment is all my responsibility (and fault)!  Fit is actually not too bad.  I was really worried that the wing to shoulder joints would not be good, causing all that wonderful zipper-like detail to be lost to sanding, but it looks like they turned out OK.

The crew stations have a bunch of really tiny boxes that need to be tediously trimmed and sanded before being glued to the fuselage sidewalls.  If anyone else builds this kit, one tip is to test fit the cockpit tub while adding the boxes.  I didn't and had to trim the bottoms of all the boxes on the starboard cockpit sidewall to get the console to fit over the locating edge. 

https://flic.kr/p/MUnauJ][/url]Be-10-19 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

https://flic.kr/p/MUn9jC][/url]Be-10-20 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Amodel continues to make improvements, as this is one of those kits that will fit properly if the builder pays attention, cleans up all joints & test fits prior to applying the glue.  I got about 95% in the fit department, but that will be good enough since this one is not natural metal.

https://flic.kr/p/MkEdMU][/url]Be-10-17 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Hope to roll this one out to the seaplane ramp soon!

RG, Ok, Ill get it added. Nice to see you back.

BK

BK - Thanks!

TJ - The Be-10 is about 17" long x 16" wide, considerably smaller then the Martin Seamaster.

Finally started the Ju52  This is a mix of two kits "different color plastuc" My floatplane kit was bought at a tag sale  Looked like it was started by a five year old.  couldn't save it bought another kit.

LOL, most of my builds look like they were started by a 5 year old....me.

TJ, I know how you feel. I'm glad to see you diving in because this is gonna be cool.

BK

Does anybody have a reference to the color of Ju52 floatplane? NOT sure if it's 65 70 71 or 72 73 65 thanks.

tempestjohnny

Does anybody have a reference to the color of Ju52 floatplane? NOT sure if it's 65 70 71 or 72 73 65 thanks.

 

BK

This GB was really a fun one and I was curious if anyone is interested in doing another one next year. I still have a few floaters in my stash that need some love. Let me know. If I get enough feedback, I'll post a feeler.

BK

BK< ye, i will be upfor that. I have a Bv 222 in the stash and hopefully will have at least one Ar 196 by then.

I too was thinking of building another float plane sometime next year.  In my stash is a resin kit of this:

regards,

Jack

Got some more work done on the Ju52

Man this thing is bigger then I thought

BrandonK

This GB was really a fun one and I was curious if anyone is interested in doing another one next year. I still have a few floaters in my stash that need some love. Let me know. If I get enough feedback, I'll post a feeler.

BK

 

Looks good so farJohnny. The 52 is quite a biggy.

TJ, that certainly does have quite a wingspan. I'm looking forward to seeing that one come together. The Germans had no shortage of interesting designs.

BK

Sorry guys for not pushing forward.  I snuck off to Japan to have some fun a couple of weeks ago, and then got slammed with work upon my return.  Anyway, it's been a quiet Friday evening so the Beriev is back on the bench.

I have been shadowing somone else's on-line build trying to learn pitfalls and crib fixes.  The other guy is having exactly the same problems as I have.  I shamelessly stole his idea of adding strip plastic to the guide ridges that locate the engine module to the fuselage. It worked great, so fettling continues to ensure the major components will fit properly.

I'd better start slapping paint in the crew stations so that the fuselage can be closed up.   I also need to figure out how to post pics from my phone.   

RealG, I am looking forward to seeing your pics and progress.

BK

BrandonK

RealG, I am looking forward to seeing your pics and progress.

BK

 

Here are a few photos from Friday night's Beriev Build:

https://flic.kr/p/PdK6jz][/url]Be-10-21 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Strip styrene was added to the molded-in guides to help the fuselage sides algn with the engine module.  The fuselage cutout contour does not match the engines, so the extra material will also ensure contact surface for gluing.

https://flic.kr/p/PoM9CP][/url]Be-10-22 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Lots of little plastic strips were needed to help parts stay aligned.  The raised rims that locate the tailpipes have been partially ground away to allow the pipes to be inserted after all the filling/sanding is done.  Note stretched sprue filling in the horizontal seam line.  My new favorite over putty.  I'm trying to see how little filler I can use on this not-so-good-fitting kit.  I think a better modeler would use even less.

https://flic.kr/p/NQmzcq][/url]Be-10-23 by N.T. Izumi, on Flickr

Just have to paint the interior and then the major airframe parts can be joined.