Welcome to the IFFGB. The sole purpose of this group build is to supply motivation to modelers in the building of a model(s) of any aircraft that can land in and take off from water. The subject can be anything from a Boeing China Clipper to a little Huey 300c with pontoons. Any scale and any building medium.
We plan to start on February 1st 2005 and end by May 1st. Get your Christmas/Channukah/Kwanza gift requests in now!
This NOT a contest so the start and stop dates are only to help us focus on our objective (many of us have several here). If you run after the stated end date, please still post images of your finished work.
Here is our tag:
I’ll maintain a list here of forum members and their projects.
First I was in, and then I was out, (remind you of any body?) now I think I’m going to get back in. I just know I can work on two projects at the same time even if one is a Vacuform kit.
Just don’t know what I want to build. The Revell Germany Bv. 222 (on sale), the HK-1 “Spruce Goose” (impressive aircraft once you’ve seen it up close) or the 1/48 scale Tamiya Aichi M6A1 Seiran with Eduard PE I have in the closet. Any help, what should I build?
Ouch, I am in the process of finishing the Savoia S21 Seaplane, will be done way prior to the Start Date. Got too many other candidates waiting for attention to attack another plane kit for a few months.
I posted this up in the airplane forum, before I saw the formal thread down here.
Feb - 1 May is OK, but tight, how about 31 May at least for fudge factor ?
Including float planes is also OK;I have the Kingfisher & Cutting Edge A/M & a lot of photos from NASM-Dulles, so that gives me a 3rd option.
Pls change my project from 1/72 Sunderland (don’t think I can do in 90days) to the Felixstowe as it will be pretty much OOB, except for some added P/E detail & maybe add a gunner station to the wing. I haven’t done my homework on markings vs modifications yet, so something will probably change between now & then.
Count me in I’am not to sure of what I want to do yet , I think the sutherland or the pby-5 not to sure yet which one…
Should of started this one earlier just finished a pby-2 not to long ago , yet to put it in water but working on it …[banghead]
Was actually gonna wait on building this one since I’ve gotta purchase the 1/48 Tamiya F4F Wildcat kit for the RHVP “Wild Catfish” conversion kit, but I imagine Hobby Lobby will run one of their 50% off sales between now and February 1st.
Aurora-7 - FYI - It’ll be 1/48 scale. That’s the only scale I build at.
Taking a look at the Sword 1/72 Sikorsky S-43 kit to get a feel for what it will take to finish. My references on this AC are nil, so does anyone have a reference site that might include some helpful pics? My first question is on the internal color. The kit instructions call out Interior Green, which is plausable, but I’d like to confirm that before I start the build in Feb.
While the internet seems to have a great deal of links to external images of the S-43, internal images are going to be hard to come by. I suggest you try to get to the source of 3 existing aircraft.
One is at the Garber facility of the Air and Space Museum. Try contacing the Garber facility to see if someone can help you.
Another is at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tuscon Arizona.
And finally there is a flying example that was originally owned by Howard Hughs and served as a developmental aid in the ‘Spruce Goose’. There are lots of images of this aircraft on the net. I’m not sure who the owner of it is now but I’m sure a little digging will reveal that. Here is one link to in flight images of that aircraft.
I live in Connecticut, not far from where the S-43s were originally made. There is a National Helicopter museum here and it’s manned by a lot of ex-Sikorsky people. I’ll try to get over there some time and try to get some names of contacts that might now something about the S-43s.
I’m new to the group build forum but I’d love to join you all on this. I’ll break out my Czech Models 1/48 Grumman Goose for the build. Please inform me of specifics I should know to get involved.
Don’t forget to add me to the list. I will be building Minicraft’s 1/200 scale Hughes H-4, HK-1 Hercules flying boat. I know, it a small 1/200 scale kit which only gives the model a wingspan of…19 inches.
I think the biggest challenge on the kit will be to make the overall gray finish look interesting. I may have to go sit under its wing for a couple hours for inspiration.
