SEAPLANES & AMPHIBIANS Official Group Build May 08-09

Even though I'm on the St Laurence Sea Way on a cruise I was able to win a 1/48 SMER on ebay! Bless shipboard satellite internet!

After the Pete, I'll work on the Walrus.

Looking good everyone. I too have been a little swamped with summer business, but I'll get to my kit soon. ;)

Hello I am intrested in joining, but I have few things to finsh first.

The plane I will be doing is 1.72 F1M2 Pete

Jason

My Walrus was waitng for me when I got back from my trip. Not a bad little kit, especially for a total of $10.00.

I've having the age old dilema on what color to paint the inside of my Pete's cockpit. I'm leaning to the old reliable bamboo green but some recent research has pointed towards the metallic blue shade.

i've finished weathering and have some pics. All I have to do now is cover the model with a flat and gloss coat and do final assembly. I have to add the prop blurs too. For the weathering I started with an artist oil wash and then did a sludge wash to bring out the panel lines. I'm done with the model after that. Then i will have to attach the model to the base and pour in the water for the dio.

all comments welcomed

Does anyone know if the pby had wingtip lights?

Very nicely done like the ligther streaking

Jason

Here's my Seagull in the Navy Air Wing GB

Ryan, that paint job looks great on the Cat.

B-man, nice progress on the Seagull. Anyone make a 1/48 of that kit?

Are you going to string it? If so, what method? I was planing on stretch sprue for my Pete.

I've finished my Catalina. I used propblurs for the props and vallejo water putty for the water. This model and base took me about 46 long hours. All comments are welcomed, Thanks.

Aurora-7 wrote:

Ryan, that paint job looks great on the Cat. B-man, nice progress on the Seagull. Anyone make a 1/48 of that kit? Are you going to string it? If so, what method? I was planing on stretch sprue for my Pete.

I will rig her with my tried and true, which is nylon paint brush bristles. I went down to the paint store a number of years back and bought a 1 1/2" brush that has about 4 or 5 diameters of bristles a couple of inches long. Some are black, some are clear, some are thin and some are thick. This is the $10 variety. It's lasted me for years, in fact I've hardly nibbled off 10%. But they are useful for just about anything modelwise where you need clean, straight little rods.

I measure with a simple set of drafting dividers, cut, test, cut, glue.

bondoman wrote:

I will rig her with my tried and true, which is nylon paint brush bristles. I went down to the paint store a number of years back and bought a 1 1/2" brush that has about 4 or 5 diameters of bristles a couple of inches long. Some are black, some are clear, some are thin and some are thick. This is the $10 variety. It's lasted me for years, in fact I've hardly nibbled off 10%. But they are useful for just about anything modelwise where you need clean, straight little rods.

A very good idea! I'm going to have to give it try on the Pete 

hi all,

i'd like to join the fun please!

put me down for a glencoe models 1/48 republic seabee

cheers paul

The cat looks great . Did you use cotton for the spray?

Where did you get those props?

JASon

jay12472 wrote:

The cat looks great . Did you use cotton for the spray? Where did you get those props? JASon

Thanks,yes the spray is cotton. I got the propblurs here:

http://propblur.googlepages.com/home

This one looks too good to pass up being that seaplanes are one of my favorite things, if you are still accepting entries sign me up for a 1/72 Italeri Do 24T.

Thanks ! 

That Catalina is incredible!!!!! Water looks great too. That is just amazing!! I always wondered how the propblurs work. Now I know they are incredible. So do you put them on in front of the props or just completely replace the props with the blurs? I just wonder how well they fit into the prop hub.

 I'll add both of you guys to the group build in a bit. :) Thanks for joining us.

avadon wrote:

That Catalina is incredible!!!!! Water looks great too. That is just amazing!! I always wondered how the propblurs work. Now I know they are incredible. So do you put them on in front of the props or just completely replace the props with the blurs? I just wonder how well they fit into the prop hub.  I'll add both of you guys to the group build in a bit. :) Thanks for joining us.

avadon, you cut off the whole prop, then drill small holes in the hub. You insert the ends of the propblurs into the holes

ludwig113 wrote:

hi all, i'd like to join the fun please! put me down for a glencoe models 1/48 republic seabee cheers paul

Got you all signed up :D Thanks for using the GB logo. If anyone is not using it feel free to take it and add it to your signature.

Old Dog wrote:

This one looks too good to pass up being that seaplanes are one of my favorite things, if you are still accepting entries sign me up for a 1/72 Italeri Do 24T.   Thanks !

 Got you added up :) Thanks for joining us!

12Wings wrote:

avadon wrote: That Catalina is incredible!!!!! Water looks great too. That is just amazing!! I always wondered how the propblurs work. Now I know they are incredible. So do you put them on in front of the props or just completely replace the props with the blurs? I just wonder how well they fit into the prop hub.  I'll add both of you guys to the group build in a bit. :) Thanks for joining us. avadon, you cut off the whole prop, then drill small holes in the hub. You insert the ends of the propblurs into the holes

Ahh.. I was wondering how that was done. That makes sense. I am just surprised at how excellent they look in pictures. I kept looking at them going "are they in motion?". Sometimes I have problems with the motors that I put in mine and I hate to have static prop or motor as my only options as I don't like to necessarily motorize everything I make. It's an ingenious design.

raider83 wrote:

Avadon, sign me up with the 1/48 monogram Kingfisher.  Not sure when I'll start, but it will be done in time

Got you added. No rush. You got this summer, winter and spring+summer of next year. Not realy enough seaplane enthusiasts to have a shorter duration build. So hopefully over time we can get a lot of people in here.

OK, I cracked open the box today and after inspecting the contents thought I would post a couple of photos of some of the issues that will need to be dealt with in case anyone else decides to build one. One of the first things I noticed was the rather rough surface finish, rather unusual I thought for a main stream kit, more like what one expects to see on limited run kits. I had two different boxing of the kit but both exhibit the same issue. It seems to be the worst on the fuselage but most of the external surfaces have it so some extent. The panel lines on the fuselage are also very shallow compared to the rest of the kit and may not hold a wash once the surface texture is taken care of and it's primed and painted without rescribing them a bit. There is also a sink mark on the planing surface near the bow on both fuselage halves but a little putty should take care of them.

The worst sink marks are on the wing to fuselage struts, the worst are on the piece in the second photo. Again nothing earth shattering but a good sized crater none the less.

The last issue concerns the fit of the cockpit glazing to the fuselage. The glazing is way over sized. Fortunately Squadron makes a vacuform set for it and it is the correct size, other wise some nasty work would be required.

 Other than that the parts so far seem to fit well and I should have most of the major parts together in a day or so.

ok,here we go.........a glencoe 1/48 republic seabee

this is a pretty basic build with no interior,its totally moulded in hard clear plastic which is not easy to glue up even with super glue!

i've put the basic body wings together because there is going to be alot of seam sanding and filling in certain places.

i gave it an overall coat of what i had in the airbrush at the time just so i could see it properly

bondoman wrote:

Commander Avadon a suggestion; posters should remind the rest of us what the model is: scale and manufacturer- in O'Dogs case a 1/72 Dornier by ?.

 Hey bondoman :) - Old Dog is on on the main page as

 old dog   - 1/72 Do 24T (Italeri)