petetasker Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Hopefully one that can be answered by the seaplane experts. Back in 1935 Cierva conducted trials with Avro Rota K4296 fitted with twin floats. Peter Brooks book ‘Cierva Autogiros’ describes these as ‘Short S.61 type floats’. I quite fancy giving this one a go. Basically does anyone out there know a kit which features this type of float. Google has brought up a bit of a blank. I’m assuming ‘S.61’ refers to a type of Short float rather than an aeroplane of some sort? Happy to buy a kit just for the floats. Prefer 1/48 or bigger but scale not that important. This will probably be dictated by whatever floats are available. Thanks in advance 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Yes S 61 will be a Shorts design number. I don't know of a list of Shorts designed floats. (there's one for Edo Floats). Unfortunately the histories often mention Shorts floats but they seldom ever give any technical details or design numbers. You should be able to work out a reasonable length for the floats from your source (photograph?). Shorts floats were all a pretty formulaic shape and scaled to suit The Shorts floats on a Queen Bee are approx 18' long. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 It would not surprise me if MiniArt did this with their new C.30 kit. They have done 3 versions on wheels, and now one on skis Julien Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Kora makes (rather crude) resin conversion for Tiger Moth on floats. The floats are some 16'3'' long - see the photos below. A/Z floats in their Queen Bee kit are 16'10''. Both in 1/72. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petetasker Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 34 minutes ago, Julien said: It would not surprise me if MiniArt did this with their new C.30 kit. They have done 3 versions on wheels, and now one on skis Julien Hi Julien I’ve bought multiple copies of all of them so far and have the ski version on back order. Knowing my luck and I’m probably completely wrong but somethings telling me they won’t do the float version - bet they do now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petetasker Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 13 minutes ago, Patrik said: Kora makes (rather crude) resin conversion for Tiger Moth on floats. The floats are some 16'3'' long - see the photos below. A/Z floats in their Queen Bee kit are 16'10''. Both in 1/72. Cheers mate I wasn’t aware of this. I’ll look into it - it just might work with a bit of jiggery pokery Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julien Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 If you want 1/72 then the floats from a Fairey Seafox might work, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 1 hour ago, Julien said: If you want 1/72 then the floats from a Fairey Seafox might work, They would be too massive for the Rota, I am afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petetasker Posted January 13, 2020 Author Share Posted January 13, 2020 9 minutes ago, Patrik said: They would be too massive for the Rota, I am afraid. Just been looking at those and yes way too big. Koras Tiger Moth floats are looking like a goer - just need to find some now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 There was also DH 60 Gypsy Moth floats (available also as model by Avis) - the floats looks very similar to Queen Bee ones, BTW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrik Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 Completely forgot about this one, thanks for reminding me @JWM. I have the Avis DH.60X floatplane boxing in my stash, I suppose the floats would be the same. They are quite nice in fact, just around 16' long. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 1 hour ago, Patrik said: Completely forgot about this one, thanks for reminding me @JWM. I have the Avis DH.60X floatplane boxing in my stash, I suppose the floats would be the same. They are quite nice in fact, just around 16' long. Maybe also the Auster by Airfix has the similar set of floats? Cheers J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petetasker Posted January 18, 2020 Author Share Posted January 18, 2020 Have finally decided to go with the Aeropoxy DH60/DH82 Float Conversion kit (which I didn’t know existed until I started searching) along with a Pro Model 1/48 C.30, a couple of which I have in the stash - should look about right with a bit of conversion work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted November 22, 2021 Share Posted November 22, 2021 Neat start, I was sent an image over the weekend when I told a friend I was building the C.30 but didn't fancy a froggy job but wanted something to sot into my FAA collection. I too have a set of Auster float as yet unused. Colin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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