George R Blair Jr (@gblair)
This is an excellent choice ! I have a few pictures I found a while ago of a collision between two Kingfishers in a nearby Naval Air Station that was called Banana River back then. Now it's a part of the Space Center complex. This same place is where the Martin PBM Mariner took off from on December 5th, 1945, in search of the missing 5 Avengers that eventually became world famous as "Flight 19".
Later the same day the Mariner disappeared too. However there was a flash / explosion observed in the skies offshore, and this very well could have been what happened to the Mariner.
Kingfishers are really cool, and your approach here will definitely solve some problems that have been stated about this kit. Personally, I would build it as is with the float, but they look really neat on wheels too.
Check this out. Here's a cool picture that caught my eye a while ago. These are "Yellow Wings" planes to boot.
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