Maritime related builds

[McColm]

This is anything that I haven't covered, past unfinished builds that I no longer have but will be built one day.
Boats, ekranoplans, MPAs, flying boats/amphibious flying boats, floatplane and miscellaneous items.

[McColm]

Here's something from the past at the Royal Air Force Museum Hendon during one of their model shows.
The 'Vietnam Neptune '
I must have changed the propellers at one point!

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The Welsh Harp Sea Monster, my first attempt at kitbashing.

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 Breguet proposed their Br.1120 flying boat that used many components from the Br.1150 Atlantic.

I'm using the 1/72 Be-6 flying boat with Mach2 Breguet Atlantic parts. I've called this build the Shorts Swallow MR.1.

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Starting from the top left is a 1/144 'Emily' Kawanishi H8K, not built by me, bought secondhand minus the propellers.

Top right, a conversion to the 1/144 Convair B-24 Liberator into the proposed LB-29 twin engined version.

Bottom left is the Revell Convair Tradewind, another entry for a GB build. This is the amphibious turbofanned version.

Bottom right, based on the Airfix RNLI kit in the style of the RAF Launch in paint scheme and decals.

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I keep asking myself why haven't I finished this build, might be missing it's cargo. Based on the Airfix 1/144 Hovercraft kit with a few changes.

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Back in my days as a member of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force 1986-1997 , NATO held live flying exercises from RAF Gibraltar. The USAF flew the Boeing B-52 armed with Harpoon anti-ship missiles from one of the UK air bases which was a formidable sight.
 This is a 1/144 model with 1/200 scale engines based on line drawings of the proposed re-engined designs by Pratt & Whitney reducing the eight engines down to four fuel efficiency turbofans of the day. General Electric and Rolls-Royce were also pursuing the contract to re-engine the B-52H.

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Rolls Royce DID get a contract to re-engine the B-52Hs, but with eight engines.

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The Beriev Be-40P Albatross NATO reporting name Mermaid was a two-engine jet-powered amphibian aircraft that had been proposed to replace the Beriev Be-12 Mail but never entered service in this format instead they produced the Be-200 .

I'm using the 1/72 Mach2 Martin SeaMaster to create my own version. I have used a pair of CFM turbofans from the Combat Model Boeing RC-135W Riverjoint upgrade conversion set, the rear guns and sensors from a B-52H plus a few spare parts to turn it into a maritime surveillance amphibious aircraft. Milliput filler has been applied with PSR to follow.