SEAPLANES & AMPHIBIANS Official Group Build May 08-09

She's a beauty! Great photos too!

When I grow up I wanna be just like Billy Bondo!

hEY ALL...IS IT TOO LATE TO JOIN???

I AM STARTING A TAMIYA 1/48TH SEIRAN AND AS A SEAPLANE FAN I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN UP!!

CARLOS

carsanab wrote:

hEY ALL...IS IT TOO LATE TO JOIN???   I AM STARTING A TAMIYA 1/48TH SEIRAN AND AS A SEAPLANE FAN I WOULD LIKE TO JOIN UP!!   CARLOS

Nope, not to late.. you have till october 1'st. I will put you down on the list :)

Hi all,

Was August 2nd the last activity on this GB? I just checked back and found the end date had come and gone -- there was no way I was ever going to get the time to do the Trumpeter AN-2, sadly, just too many things happening. I have been rifling my stash today and came across a Hasegawa N1K1, the sort of project I could probably knock out quick, but not by midnight!

This was a great idea for a GB and attracted some good work, it's a pity it's not been one of the more active builds (yeah, right, I need talk!)

Cheers,

Mike

Sorry I didn't get back here sooner. Yes Oct, 01 was the cut off. We ran this build for over a year. It's kind of hard to generate interest in seaplanes, but thanks to everyone who participated, regardless if you finished your aircraft or not. All of the models looked great and those still in completion, feel free to post here after you complete them. After all google searches will still turn up this thread even if it's buried. 

 Now onto the seaplane grand champion-master of the universe

**************Drum Roll**************

 (Opens envelope)

Ladies and Gentlemen it is a two way tie between..

Bondoman and 12wings for those impressive PBY-Catalina's, boy did they look great.

Wow, I forgot about this one.

Kind of ironic too because I've got 4 seaplanes and a float equipped helicopter in progress.

Aaronw wrote:

Wow, I forgot about this one. Kind of ironic too because I've got 4 seaplanes and a float equipped helicopter in progress.

Sorry guy, I even have a few float planes in my stash left but I couldn't really see running this GB longer then almost 1.5 years. If there is enough people interested though maybe we can make another one sometime.

Nope, not asking for an extension, just forgot about it. I would have thought it would have done better being an interesting subject but these things happen.

Avadon- create Seaplane II. It's a win for most GB's if they roll over. After all there have been collected a group of folks who have a common interest!

In my stash: Martin Marlin, Martin Mariner, and an "Emily".

Here's my most recent build:

Finished- the Matchbox 1/72 Supermarine Stranraer. All OOB except for a set of exquisite Lewis guns from Ivan at ukmodels. Humbrol paints, including "shadow effect" of the lower wing.

Superb work, Bondo! I've long looked at this beast and thought it would be a real challenge. I got a few photos of the real one at Hendon, she was a huge piece of hardware, that upper wing was a towering structure.

If we go for Seaplanes II I'll definitely pull out the stops and take part properly this time, with an N1K1, by either Hasegawa or Tamiya, and maybe a Zero floatplane. I might even get around to the An-2 as well!

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Beautiful ship Bondoman. That rigging is impressive. Do I even want to know how long that took. Eee-gads! lol :) Really, you have some serious talent! You need to work for the movies!

I wouldn't mind making a seaplanes II or even just continuing this thread as it's still rather in it's infancy. But if were going for a new GB, then probably someone like Bondo should take it, as he's prolly here more often then i am. There are times when I can't be here to much, even up to a week or two without logging in because of my work. I am a welder/fabricator and i own my own company and so when things get really busy alot of the fun hobbies go by the wayside unfortunately. I'm up for doing whatever you guys want. If you want to start a new thread i'll even help photoshop some sweet graphix for it. If you want to continue here I can even change the logo's. Thoughts?

Well I'd join another one. I'd have to see what I have though.

Bondo, that is incredible Stranraer. Looks better than the one I built. Awesome job man, and I love how you photographed it with the water in the background too. Brilliant!

Thank you very much. No GB hosting for me, just a builder. About three months of once a week at 4 hours. The big breakthrough here was using Humbrol paints for the Coastal Command color scheme, and in particular the one step down in colors for the lower wing, the so-called "shadow effect". And the invest cast brass Lewis guns at $ 4 each worked for me. I used .010 brass wire for rigging; way too thick. I'll look for a better solution on the Heyford. Thanks to Chris Hall. I photocopied the camo pattern and replicated it with blue tape; thought about a "soft" edge butdecided ot didn't make sense at 1/72.

Here's a link to my lateist:

A solid weekend of work has the two Seagulls finished for the USS San Francisco. I'll save you the "fits on a penny" shot, but these a/c are small. Tom's PE set came with one set of interplane struts, luckily two propellers, so everything else is from scratch with .010 wire.Pretty so-so.

Hans Von Hammer thank you for the paint mix, I like it.

Now, eight 5" guns.

Max...and all....looking thru I noticed that at some time I asked to join the GB...and sorry I seemed to have lost track of this GB I've been busy with others...Oh well no excuses.... I said I would build a Seiran...wel I did...and also a Rufe

Heres a pic and a link to the Seiran....this was a fun kit....decals bit the big one though,,,

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and the Rufe..This is the Hasegawa 1/48 kit....had a little extra fun with this one..see second link

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Oh and Bondoman...great idea of the pics with the bay in the backround....really bring out that great looking Floatie!!!