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Old 12-28-2008, 05:31 PM
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Seaplane Diorama in 1/72

We've never designed a water oriented diorama so this will be a new experience. We selected the 1916 designed Sea Mew because it fitted in with our time period and it was a type of boat present in New Zealand at that time (1916 - 1919).

One of the interesting things is reconciling a waterline model boat with the fact that the bottom of the hull (interior) will be visible. We considered an illustrated hull interior, but opted for a card board ribbed job. The Sea Mew's beam, at 1/72 is one inch.

We found that the boat warped as the hull dried so in future we would pin the model base to a cork board to keep things straight, although there are probably other options known to the ship model design fraternity..

The mast and boom, gaff and bowsprit were all made from a whittled down bamboo skewer...
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B&W Seaplane 1919 NEW from By Air Classique-seamew1.jpg   B&W Seaplane 1919 NEW from By Air Classique-seamew2.jpg  
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