Kitbash: German jet seaplane

[barbara_em]

I found this photograph on tvd.im, a website that covers militaria and sundries. The entry and caption were for a Curtis SC Seahawk. Obviously, this ain’t it, but what is it? I did a cursory look at Luft’46 didn’t come up with anything that looks like this seaplane. The tail looks like it came from an Me-262 and maybe the fuselage has that shape, too.

Is it a real project or someone’s conjecture?

Cool photo with the simulated waves. Cellophane?

As for the plane itself, are those gunports on the top of the nose? If so, why is there a cabin with windows? The small sponsons are a plus in my book, as are the slightly gulled wings and the water rudder(?) aft of the fin. I wonder about those horizontal tail planes mounted so high on the fin. It seems there would be lots of jet exhaust to cause problems.

 

[Arjen]

A kitbash. Upside-down Me 262 wing, Me 262 fin and stabiliser - and tail? Grumman Widgeon nose? Bad paintjob.

 

[Dynoman]

I concur, the nose with guns are from the Me-262 kit with possible modeling clay used to reshape the lower nose for the deadrise and chines. Clay likely used to construct the wing center section and dorsal area of the fuselage.

 

[okakac]

Those too much into accuracy will one day hunt Dizzyfugu with pitchforks and firebrands.

DONE @p.4 +++ Dornier Do 319 B-1 "Seeschwalbe", Luftwaffe, mid 1945 - Page 4

DONE @p.4 +++ Dornier Do 319 B-1 "Seeschwalbe", Luftwaffe, mid 1945 - Page 4

www.whatifmodellers.com

 

[Apophenia]

Those too much into accuracy will one day hunt Dizzyfugu with pitchforks and firebrands...

Yup. Always more satisfying to direct your witch-hunting venom at the what-if creator than those who repost what-if images without any investigation. As noted elsewhere, Dizzyfugu always posts a completely unambiguous disclaimer with his work.

To that reposter on tvd.im, I would say: 'Hey, I found something cool-looking' doesn't qualify as due diligence in research.

 

[Sabrejet]

Why is this garbage being posted?

 

[southwestforests]

are those gunports on the top of the nose? If so, why is there a cabin with windows?

I'll approach that this way,
Why did the Grumman Duck seaplane have a cabin with windows?
Why did the Grumman Avenger landplane have a cabin with windows?

 

[southwestforests]

Bad paintjob.

Fits the character of reference photo on this page,

Luftwaffe Aviation Art made by Simon Schatz

aircraft color profiles made by Simon Schatz

luftwaffe-aviation-art.blogspot.com

Dizzyfugu's model has logic for that paint style,

it mimics well the technique with which those improvised patterns were applied in the field in real life: quickly, with anything at hand. The way the finish turned out, the pattern could have been applied with a broad brush – the use of a spray gun was rather uncommon, and IMHO the use of an airbrush on a model to recreate such a zigzag pattern rarely leads to convincing results

Note roughness of D-Day stripes on this Spitfire which are getting a refreshing by 2 guys having neither masking tape nor spray gun,

Aviation News – Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar’s D-Day Commemoration Plans

Exactly 70 years on from D-Day, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe, two of Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar’s Spitfire Mk.IXs will be overflying the Normandy beaches to commemorate this most i…

www.globalaviationresource.com

There was quite a bit of in-the-field painting which was nowhere near IPMS contest quality.

 

[Justo Miranda]

I found this photograph on tvd.im, a website that covers militaria and sundries. The entry and caption were for a Curtis SC Seahawk. Obviously, this ain’t it, but what is it? I did a cursory look at Luft’46 didn’t come up with anything that looks like this seaplane. The tail looks like it came from an Me-262 and maybe the fuselage has that shape, too.

Is it a real project or someone’s conjecture?

Cool photo with the simulated waves. Cellophane?

As for the plane itself, are those gunports on the top of the nose? If so, why is there a cabin with windows? The small sponsons are a plus in my book, as are the slightly gulled wings and the water rudder(?) aft of the fin. I wonder about those horizontal tail planes mounted so high on the fin. It seems there would be lots of jet exhaust to cause problems.



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[Arjen]

There was quite a bit of in-the-field painting which was nowhere near IPMS contest quality.

Agreed, it's just the combination of a rough paint job with rough model detailing that got my hackles up.
Added to that, with parts clearly borrowed from identifiable model kits, when I was a teenager this esthetically challenged thing would have been given the thumbs down by my brothers.
<edit> I just visited Dizzyfugu's site - the image from #1 presents the model in the worst possible way. On second look, build quality is a lot better than I first thought.

 

[Arjen]

I found this photograph on tvd.im, a website that covers militaria and sundries

That site isn't much into mentioning its sources, and throws a mountain of advertising garbage at me. The kind of site that gives hobbyists a bad name.

I am pleased you mentioned your source, though. Reverse image is probably how @okakac (kudos) found out about Dizzyfugu on whatifmodelers.com - that site's name is a dead giveaway on the nature of the Do 319 - a what-if.

 

[okakac]

Dizzyfugu is a legend in the What-if site, he builds fast, only at 1/72 as far as I have noticed so painting complex schemes might in my view reduce the visual impact of his work. But l think he has to use a lot of material to achieve a smooth transition between disparate scale model parts and there is no way he could have a clear unpainted model picture to show anyhow.

You will notice as a German he is very alert to the risks of people using his designs. Some random person on the web might say Do-319 is how Adolf Hitler escaped from an underground tunnel to a lake near Berlin on his way to the waiting U-boot at Norway. He spends too much on the web tracking his designs and always intervenes when he is not named as the creator of the plane and it is not stressed enough that the model is fictional. He was very popular in a Russian language alternative history site; think RedStar 72 is a member both here and there and he might have been contacted to make sure his wishes would be followed. (Apologies for any mispellings)... The Russian site now visibly states it is Dizzyfugu when they have one of his plentiful models. I think he is currently more popular in World of Warplanes where modders are branching out of real life camouflage schemes.

 

[southwestforests]

Reverse image is probably how @okakac (kudos) found out about Dizzyfugu on whatifmodelers.com

As it happens, I've been following him for years and years on Flickr. Is also on DeviantArt.
Always interesting to see what the latest build project is.
And the background stories for the what-ifs posted with the photo on Flickr are likewise always interesting.

 

[Arjen]

I stand corrected.

 

[Justo Miranda]

The what-if is fun and stimulates the freedom and creativity of modelers in the face of the dictatorship of precision and absolute fidelity to the real aircraft.

 

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