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TreehuggerInteresting. You may want to try Roden's Turbo Porter plane, which they have in various versions. Some fiddling required. 🙂 If you ever build the seaplane, NEVER put nose weight in the two floaters, it just becomes weird to hold.
Pascal FREYHello ! yes Roden Turbo Porter...why not ! I plan to built Roden T28, I love this plane.
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Here is my 1/48 L19/O1 Bird Dog from Roden, started a year ago and left aside very often because with this plane, I played bad luck at many times, and I realize that she could have been better ....
Last bad luck when I stuck the wire antenna to the upper surface and where a drop of cyano accelerator fell on the wing and seeped inside, damaging some glazing.
This model is small, requires patience and precision, the kit is not bad but there are many points to improve and it requires vigilance, Roden is not Tamiya.
Some parts lack finesse, tailwheel, tubular structure that supports the seat, lifting rings on the upper surface (which I redone in plumb, like the drift and tail wheel controls with its springs made in stretched sprue ) ...
The mounting of the engine on its frame seemed to me impossible (at least for me). I chose to hang the engine on a hollow tube that goes from the front plate to the firewall. The exhausts are glued to an evergreen plate under the engine.
The hollow tube allows to fix the propell