flying boat Database

The flying boat Database at iModeler

8 articles

Items tagged with flying boat
8 articles
Publicly visible
Last addition 1 month ago

Mars attacks! Or, a little more peacefully, a flying boat in XXL: Martin Mars flying tanker

by Roland Sachsenhofer on November 21, 2024 · in Aviation · 18 ≡

How can you start a report on the Martin Mars? The first obvious thought is to start with its size,,the opening by its size, because after all, the original of this modelling project is the largest flying boat ever built in series! A [...]

A real Squirt: Saunders Roe SR.A-1 takes off!

by Roland Sachsenhofer on December 20, 2022 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

Like any aircraft design, the unusual Saunders Roe SR. A-1 is a compromise of various prerequisites and technical conditions on the one hand and ideas and conceptions on the other. Rarely, however, does this compromise result in such an [...]

A most unusual sight: Saunders Roe SR. A-1 flying boat fighter

by Roland Sachsenhofer on December 13, 2022 · in Aviation · 20 ≡

My first reaction to the film footage of an SRA-1 in flight can be summarised as: "what an elegant and impressively agile aircraft this flying boat was! This impression surprised me myself, because when one sees this machine in still [...]

OtVinta! 1/48 Shavrov Sh-2 (Ш-2) – new model!

by Maxim Bylkin on July 11, 2021 · in News · 9 ≡

Hello everyone! I would like to present a new model - the first Soviet serial flying boat designed by Shavrov Sh-2. The model is made of polyurethane resin, 115 parts (approx.), Decal for 8 options. The set includes bonuses - a pilot [...]

Finemolds Savoia S.21F & Curtiss R3C-0, 1/48. The Porco Rosso Pair.

by Harvey R. on May 15, 2021 · in Aviation · 17 ≡

The Savoia S.21F and Curtiss R3C-0 were two models I completed at the end of the first UK lockdown last year and shine brightly against the normal camouflaged warbird I make, both aircraft come from the brilliant animated movie 'Porco [...]

1/72 Modelsvit Beriev Be-12PS

by Gordon Zammit on December 2, 2020 · in Aviation · 15 ≡

This is the Modelsvit Beriev Be-12PS built straight from the box with one of the decal options that come with it. It is not an easy build, as any Modelsvit large plane is. However the subject for me is a very interesting aircraft, that [...]

Bv 138 Revell 1/72

by ALOGANO on March 11, 2020 · in Aviation · 29 ≡

Hi all, here you have the Revell 1/72 Bv138. I have to say that it is one of my favourites aircraft. In many aspects is so strange but at the same time unique. I bought this kit on eBay to a french guy as this model is out of stock and I [...]

Dornier Do 26, Amodel 1/72

by John Meyer on October 14, 2019 · in Aviation · 19 ≡

The Dornier Do 26 was a mail & passenger flying boat produced before WWII by Dornier Flugzeugwerk. It was operated by a crew of four and was intended for the Lisbon to New York route. This is the Amodel 1/72 kit released in 2014. The [...]