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Recently, during a brief spurt of house cleaning, I happened across a journal that featured seaplanes and floatplanes. On the cover there was a bright red profile of a Macchi Castoldi MC.72. A featured article inside on the Schneider Trophy Cup piqued my interest on floatplanes somewhat and moa and greggle's builds on, respectively, the Supermarine and Curtiss entries ramped it up even further. So, after researching the various entries, and being partial to those bright red Macchis, I started experimenting with the best way to build the floats for the M.39. After several attempts and a couple of A4 styrene sheets I got a result that I was happy with. I've since decided to build the other float and then continue on with scratch building the rest of the diminutive 1926 Trophy winner using the techniques found in Harry Woodman's book on scratch building in plastic card. This first photo is of the completed float in 1:48 scale. In successive photos I'll show how I went about plunge moulding the deck and keel and putting it all together. Welcome to follow along and comments and suggestions always welcome. Thanks for your interest, Dennis
