SEAPLANES & AMPHIBIANS Official Group Build May 08-09

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

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.

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 ! 

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

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

Where did you get those props?

JASon

hi all,

i'd like to join the fun please!

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

cheers paul

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 

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.

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.

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.

Here's my Seagull in the Navy Air Wing GB

Very nicely done like the ligther streaking

Jason

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?

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.

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

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

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.

Hello,

Just checking in with the group build.  Been too busy this summer to even think of starting on the goose.

I too would like to see the old Monogram Kingfisher.  I havn't seen one in years.  As I rememer, it was a good kit, then again, that would be from a 10 yr olds point of view.

Scott

raider83 wrote:

Since this is the seaplane GB, have any of you guys built the monogram 1/48 kingfisher?  It looks like a decent kit if I can find one. I want to build a WWII Pacific dio with a float plane rescuing the pilot of a downed plane.  I wsa going to use the revell 1/48 catalina, but that is too big

You also have choices of floatplanes, certainly the Seagull and Seamew if that was ever a rescue plane.

kenjitak wrote:

It's great to see some seaplanes and some progress. What do you think of that Academy kit?

This kit is actually very good except for the interior detail (there is almost none). The exterior detail is very nice. There are thin panel lines and rivets on the entire model. Hopefully the decals are of good quality. 

Thanks for the SMER comments, John. I think I'll try getting hold of one.

Looking over the parts of my Tamiya Mitsubishi F1M 'Pete' last night and reading some on-line comments about the Tamiya kit, I've come to find out that the kit is sort of a mix of a F1M2 version body and F1M1 canopies. I've got to decide to either get new canopies or modify the fuselage depending on which version I do.

Here's an update on how I'm coming on my model. So far I have glued together the fuse, glued the wings together, and puttied everything up. I have also washed all the parts and gotten them ready for painting. I had no idea that the wings were going to be so BiG!

all comments welcomed