mikeew Posted October 30, 2009 Share Posted October 30, 2009 Hi All. This is my build for the Splash SIG at Telford, bit of a late comer I know, but I wanted to give a token gesture atleast on the debut of the SIG. Its the basic but sound Frog kit of the S.6B, an aircraft I am sure needs no introduction on these forums. Its better in shape and accuracy than the Airfix offering which is hideous in comparison. The cross horizontal braces on the floats are purely ficticious and I only added them to help me align everything else. The rear float to fuselage struts affix to the fuselage centreline if built box-stock, again, this is wrong. I drilled holes further out from the centreline to accommodate the struts and filled the resultant gap in the lower fuselage with plasticard. Once it was all set , i sawed off the cross braces and replaced with steel wire for better scale effect and to give some rigidity to the whole thing. Once i'd filled and sanded all the joints and seams I sprayed some Tamiya X-3 Royal Blue lightened about 20% with flat white on the areas that needed that colour before maasking it off... I then added some Light Aircraft Grey as a base for some Aluminium Alclad. Once unmasked I had something resembling a Supermarine S.6B on the bench... Now I have to see if the Eastern Express decals, who's boxing this is, will behave using klear as decal set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith in the uk Posted October 31, 2009 Share Posted October 31, 2009 Looking sweet Mikeew , lovely paint job Lets hope those decals work ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeew Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Thanks Keith. All done now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPNGROATS Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 (edited) Mikeew: What a GREAT looking seaplane....That's one sharp build...I have that particular FROG kit in the stash also the 1/48 Testors kit. Your effort is quite the inspiration... Cheers, ggc Edited November 1, 2009 by CPNGROATS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ta152h Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith in the uk Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Lovely , thats turned out really nice , a little dark gray paint on the exhausts to make them stand out would be the iceing on the cake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perry Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 very nice indeedy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexwh773 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 That is rather smart there young Mike Bexy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rogers Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Nice work Mike, certainly has more detail in the nose area than the Airfix kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Depressingly quite, but Very pretty. Nice one Mike. Grant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxhound Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Awesome work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Mc Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Awesome work I bought an Eastern Express version of this recently - only to discover that the decals were missing. Does anyone do after market decals for the S6B? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnonymousLL45 Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 Thanks Keith.All done now... That is absolutely stunning, great effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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