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Old 11-26-2007, 10:56 PM
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Yoiks, I didn't know that you have another build going on over here. It looks super from where I sit. I've no idea what it is but I like it. You're a productive sort.


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Old 11-27-2007, 11:05 AM
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I think it's terrific, Barry. The hand lettering and very slight irregularities detract NOTHING from the overall impression of this beautiful model -- indeed, they are rather like the residual pencil lines in a pen and ink sketch. May you build many more of these lovely ships of the air.

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Old 11-27-2007, 07:55 PM
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Outer wings and floats

Carl and Don thank you for the flowers

Don something to look at in the Magic Roundabout

I need to design some proper spars for the outer wings they don't look too bad but....nearly put them on backwards leading and trading edges almost look the same but they ain't. Having the float struts as an integral part of the spar worked well, had too beef up the rear one slightly. The floats are alright but could do with doubling the number of faces for a better shape. I will probably give it a sole on the leading part of the V hull to get rid of the joins which show too much.

As it can't sit on it's undercarriage I'm thinking of plastic circles to represent the props I refuse to have sat on it's ghastly trolley and make it look like a pregnant duck.

Not bad for a first try (as a stand off scale effort) I will build it a stand so I can remind myself of what needs altering on the next pass when I get into airplane mode again.

Anybody got a 3 view of one of the big US Navy birds don't care which
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Old 11-27-2007, 09:45 PM
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Well Barry.............. if you still want a challenge how about this one.:D

I got it from here: http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/grum...6albatros.html
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Old 11-28-2007, 07:09 AM
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Looking good, Barry! Always enjoy following your threads! Like the way the engines look...
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This model came out very nice looking.
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Old 11-28-2007, 11:10 AM
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Could you take a piece of foam and sculpt pockets into it for the hull and pontoons and then paint the foam to simulate water?
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Old 11-28-2007, 06:01 PM
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Thanks fellas

John found a great coastguard scheme for the Grumman it sort of shouts America.I will probably need your help again with the finishing.Good thing about flying boats you can guess the fuselage formers pretty well and there are loads of photographs of it on the net its got solid struts as well think it will be wheels up though...HAVE YOU SEEN that undercarriage.
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Old 11-29-2007, 09:45 AM
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Old 11-29-2007, 10:33 AM
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Barry -- If you decide to build an Albatross, you might like to waste on hour on the film "Flight from Ashiya," starring Yul Brynner and Richard Widmark and dealing with the air-sea rescue squadron based at Ashiya Air Base in Japan in the early 1960s. It's really a terrible film in most respects (the plot is silly, the acting is wooden, the story is contrived and mawkish, the 1941 and 1942 flash back scenes give no real sense of the periods depicted, and most of the scenes filmed using models are ludicrous, especially the water landings and the take off after the rescue), but there are some good shots of real aircraft (Sikorsky UH-19 helicopter, Douglas DC-3, and, most important for your purposes, the HU-16 Air-Sea Rescue version of the Grumman Albatross amphibians) and a few of the non-model flying scenes are good.

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