DHC-6-300 Seaplane

[MacSongLi]

Great looking kits. Very nice design work.

Gary

[Draco]

Thanks, Gary!

The 1/33 version has been finished!

Should be available to download very soon. And here you can see some views of the real plane. I tried to make some weathering, but except the exaust trails, the planes look very clean and cared.

So, enjoy!

[Draco]

Another picture assembling the b/w alpha test, a picture of the wing underside with all the actuators, and another of the real plane showing the darkening of the wing due to the exausts.
Merry Christmas to everybody!

[Siwi]

Given the strong sunlight of the latitude where this plane is operated, I would go for making the colours pretty intense and not desaturating for scale as normal.
How well does the plane sit on its floats on a flat surface?

[Draco]

Hi, Siwi.
I had to include 3 gr of balast in the nose, just where the forward cargo door is.
And because the middle section of the floats is perfectly horizontal, the plane sits perfectly as you can see in all the pictures.
About the saturation, the PDF is very bright as you can see, but the printer was not up to the challenge. Next time I'll use another printer or better paper.

[Siwi]

I wonder if putting ballast in the floats would help; it would get the model to sit at a particular point on them and maybe not stress the struts and frame. Or as I often resort to, make a display base and glue it down.

[Draco]

Originally Posted by Siwi

I wonder if putting ballast in the floats would help; it would get the model to sit at a particular point on them and maybe not stress the struts and frame. Or as I often resort to, make a display base and glue it down.

It could work. I used the frontal cargo compartment to place the weight, but the floats could work.
Anyway the float struts are STRONG, specially the rear one. Beside the main triangular support (with two internal reinforcements) it has two lower struts making a V under the fuselage. And the frontal struts have a vertical centered column and a wire cable forming an inverted V
I felt curious and put a heavy steel scissor over the b/w prototype, and it didn't find out.
Anyway today I finished two sizes of the Harbour Air version. You can see that the stairs are different and there is another window in the rear doors.
I expect to upload them tomorrow first time.

[Draco]

Seems to be a problem in ecardmodels, you can dowload all my models but I can´t upload anything.
Pretty sure it's a problem with the site and once they return their vacations it fill be fixed.
Meanwile I'm working in the next version

[Draco]

Ok, they fixed the problem.
There is one Twin Otter available and three uploaded
This is the new list of versions to be released.

[Draco]

Today ecardmodels has released the three remaining Twin Otters that I had uploaded.
So you can download them and show the assembled pictures of this interesting floatplane.
The Harbour Air Canada will need to wait a few, because the exaust are not the same of the first two versions, but a bent tube.
Meanwhile, enjoy!