SEAPLANES & AMPHIBIANS Official Group Build May 08-09

Very nicley done. I too like the colors

Jason

sfcmac wrote:

Sorry for the intrusion , I was going to join but saw Scottrc has claimed the 1/48 Grumman Goose. I just finished one up and think it turned out pretty well. Want to post a few pics and warn Scott that this is no shake and bake kit. Actually it looked easy but wasn't really. A weekender kit it ain't. Well here are some pics let me know what you think. Thanks!  I have quite a few work in progress pics if you'd like to see them. Love this scheme but you really need some sun glasses  to stand it!  Night fellows, searching for that Bondoman fellow.

Wow that is one cool looking paaint job was it tough at all?

Hi all,

It's been a long time since I posted, but I have a little progress on the Colt -- I painted the cockpit today. Here's the evidence:

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The cockpit is an unspecified light blue, and as I had a spray touchup to do on my Bf 109 for Battle of Britain GB I decided I might as well use RLM 65, which looks pretty close to the blue in my An-2 photo references. Now I have to wrestle with my impulse to scratchbuild the missing centre console before I can get everything into place and close the fusleage.

Cheers,

Mike/TB379

Wasn't even aware of this when I started my Kingfisher Dio back in August... It's still under contrustion though, any chance of getting in? This is where I'm at with it..

avadon wrote:

Yes I believe both of you are now in the list. What scale is that kingfisher. Looks like its coming along good. Did you actualy glue it into the sea before you airbrushed the aicraft? That sounds like a lot of masking?

 Oh nevermind that was a dumb question. This late at night with my tired eyes I couldn't tell the difference between out of the box grey and that light blue lol

Hans, mine will be similar to yours, but will have several differences. I'll probably drop the flaps and i'm using a resin cockpit. I'm going to do the water different too. Is that the Verlinden life raft? I was going to use that too, but have both aviators in it.

Yeah, that's the Verlinden raft...I'll have a total of five figures on the bird and in the raft when I get done... The dio is going to be based on Eddie Rickenbacker's rescue from his book, "Seven Came Through"... 

I left the flaps up, since I think that'd probably be the way that they'd be positioned if someone were to get out on the wing.. Also, and you can't see it here, the ailerons droop slighty, acting as auxillary flaps on the Kingfisher...  I may make that feature more pronounced, haven't decided yet...

avadon wrote:

What scale is that kingfisher. Looks like its coming along good. Did you actualy glue it into the sea before you airbrushed the aicraft? That sounds like a lot of masking?

Nope, it's sitting free at this time, I'll secure it later on... It's the Monogram 1/48th Kingfisher and I painted the innital blue/grey colors with rattle-cans of Model Master Intermediate Blue and Camouflage Grey, FS 35164 and FS 36622, respectively.  The cowl was cut off and I installed open cowl flaps made from strip styrene, and added another strip around the inside of the cowl in order to glue it back on the fusealge...  The pilot's seat-pan was cut out in order to make the modified pilot fit better into it, and I also cut off the main float for painting, then re-attached it by drilling matching holes in the fuselage and then the float mounts, inserting a piece of styrene rod for a mounting pin in each one.  The rear cockpit isn't going to get a lot of detail as there will be a figure in it lying prone across the deck to represent COL Hans Anderson, the sickest of the three survivors, Rickenbacker on the right wing and Bartek being in the raft... 

raider83 wrote:

Anyone still in this GB? Anyways, I finally started my Kingfisher. It will take some work, but I think I can make it look good.

Yeah, mine is still alive. I had a bad NMF experience on another kit which put me off of my build for this for awhile. I got a couple of other builds wrapped up to make some room and just picked up the Boeing 314 again, will post some pics when the paint dries.

I just saw Porco Rosso.. you guys should see it. Pretty cool if you like animation/cartoons.  :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso

Well this stinks. I had an airplane death :(

 I was drying one of the last yellow coats on my DeHavilland Beaver when it fell from the clip that was holding it up near the ceiling. It fell, smacked the pavement, broke the prop, both wings, and screwed up the paint. It was enough for me to say forget it and just scrap the aircraft. Sad day! Oh well, I have till the deadline. Hopefully I can get another seaplane rocking by then. Anyway I did take progress pics up until its death and you can see those. This kit is not bad, it's big 1/24'th but the parting lines are fairly noticable and it doesn't have a cockpit. But if you like a big seaplane this is a decent kit.

and here is it's inevitable ending in the trash. To bad it would have made a good model albeit fairly big sitting next to my standard 1/32 aircraft. As you can see I motorized it, put a switch in, and a small battery pack (two AAA's)

Revive the Beaver; all good bushplanes have flaws.

Anyone remember the movie "Never Cry Wolf"?

Best bushpilot movie ever.

I've got a few coming, and here's my last one:

Thanks much. it's 1/72 Hasegawa, and at that scale measures 22" across the wings!

I am working on a whole bunch right now. I may not peel one off yet for this GB, but I'll do crossovers.

avadon wrote:

I just saw Porco Rosso.. you guys should see it. Pretty cool if you like animation/cartoons.  :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porco_Rosso

avadon wrote:

Just a little reminder, there is only about 6.5 months left for this group build and we know how time flies. Don't miss out. Everyone should try to get at least one seaplane in on this build. Remember the Seaplane championship of the universe is at stake here :P

ahhh.............

glad you reminded me,i've just dug out my republic seabee............time for a serious amount of sanding on the seams

I didn't realize we have an extension! Well, I've got a Revell "boxscale" Martin P6M SeaMaster multijet attack seaplane that I'd like to try to build before the end of this GB.

You guys have done some great stuff while I wasn't looking! Aren't seaplanes wonderful? Maybe they'll get some to use against those Somali pirates. Sort of a modern day Porco Rosso!

Kenjitak -- I have that old Seamaster kit too, somewhere in my stash, so I'd be very interested to see it go together! I've often thought it would be a good starting place to measure up, correct errors against research info and build her from scratch at a decent size. Of course, I'd need a spare year of evenings...

I'll be glad to get that An-2 on floats done and a decent rigging job done -- one day!

Mike/TB379

I thought I'd post a couple of pictures just in case some of youngsters might not know what a P6M SeaMaster is:

Needless to say this kit has raised detail and lots of rivets! And just in case you weren't sure where the decals should go they molded outlines of most of the markings. I'm tempted to leave that all there and do it as I would've back in the day. What do you think?

Argh! Sand it all away, sand it all away! Rescribe the major panel lines only and ignore the rivets, they'd be invisible at this scale! There, that feels better... I have the History Makers photo-box edition. Wow, that is some impressive aircraft... What a tragedy she was cancelled when the program was already so far along (16 aircraft delivered, IIRC). I've been fascinated by this plane for the last 25 years.

Mike

IIRC her mission was to lurk on the sea, undetected as a nuclear deterrent, and if/when called for, launch and go strike, after chucking out the sandwich wrappers, of course. Rendered obsolete by satellite intel.

Sand it down but the rivets and lines'll still show which is a good thing. There's some vidies around of the beast taking off, try Youtube.

Kenjitak, I had never heard of a P6M SeaMaster until know. I love those inlets ontop of the wings. So when this thing would strike, was it's payload nuclear?

(yes we have till Oct 01, but i'm thinking be prepared to have finished all models at or around mid september and probably not decide to build a model after about mid to late august unless your extremely fast.)