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Niche question. Does anyone have any reference photos or information concerning beaching gear on the Short Shetland sea plane? Im building the Anigrand kit at the moment and don't want to sand away the bottom to make it a waterline job but I also think it looks weird and lopsided on the shelf resting squiffy on its wing pontoon. Beaching gear seem to be the logical solution but I can find no references for this. That said, the Shetland must have had some provision for being winched out of the water in order to perform maintenance and clean off the salt. I'm tempted to assume that it was a la Sunderland but the Shetland was a much much heavier airframe and was a joint venture with SARO who did the hull design so I'm windy of simply replicating the Sunderland's gear on this. I have plundered the internet to no avail. I have nothing on the Shetland in any of my reference books on my shelf but I think the Buttler book on British Prototypes has something on the Shetland (well it's on the cover anyway). Does anyone have this book? Might you be able to tell me whether anything about the beaching gear is mentioned? Thanks very much, Angus
