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Robert Podkoński (podkon)
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Schneider Trophy Races 1941

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71 27 April 2021, 07:55
Nathan Dempsey
Interesting subject! You seem to be conquering the difficulty of the main kit.
6 May 2021, 14:07
Robert Podkoński
Indeed Nathan...
6 May 2021, 14:41
Hanno Kleinecke
Promising! Checkin' in
6 May 2021, 15:55
Robert Podkoński
Welcome! (I feel a bit intimidated, to be sincere...🙂 )
6 May 2021, 16:17
Bernd Korte
I've built this kit a few years ago and encountered the same problems. So you are going to ad floats?
6 May 2021, 16:31
Robert Podkoński
Yes I do Bernd. And build it as a single-seater 🙂
6 May 2021, 16:33
Robin (WhiteGlint)
Taking a seat. 🙂
This bird looks really interesting.
6 May 2021, 19:38
Dieter Bihlmaier
Schneider Trophy whiffie? I'am in!
7 May 2021, 18:09
Mark K
Wow!
7 May 2021, 19:02
Robert Podkoński
Welcome! I feel encouraged 😉 In the meantime I have been wondering what would be the other contestants. What do you think about Vought F4F Corsair and maybe Martin-Baker MB.2 on floats? 😄
8 May 2021, 06:59
Robin (WhiteGlint)
What a sleek looking aircraft.
I'd say go for the MB.2 as the other contestant.
Or do you plan to give the Corsair floats, too?
8 May 2021, 16:45
Cuajete
Interesting.
Following.
8 May 2021, 18:56
Robert Podkoński
@WhiteGlint: these are just some loose ideas, but IMHO Corsair is best suited for floats - if there was Spitfire on floats, Bf 109 and even Wildcatfish... it is a pity however that there is only a resin (read: quite costly) kit of MB.2 available. And I would have to purchase two, as I do really like its look on wheels. Nevertheless, I have run out of spare floats for the moment (at least in 1/72nd scale... 😉)
8 May 2021, 19:27
Robin (WhiteGlint)
A Corsair on floats doesn't sound bad either 👍
12 May 2021, 11:20
Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Following
13 June 2021, 17:13
Robert Podkoński
Welcome Yuri 🙂
13 June 2021, 18:06
S M
Nice progress ? it's soon ready to sail
13 June 2021, 20:55
Ben M
Fun idea
13 June 2021, 21:01
Robert Podkoński
Thanks Ben and S M
13 June 2021, 21:06
Robin (WhiteGlint)
Coming along nicely, Robert. 👍
14 June 2021, 10:56
Robert Podkoński
Thanks for encouragement WhiteGlint 🙂
14 June 2021, 13:05
Robert Podkoński
At the slow pace, but going forward... 😉
13 July 2021, 08:28
Cuajete
Hard job but good result, Robert 👍
14 July 2021, 17:22
Robert Podkoński
Thanks, Cuajete 🙂 It is encouraging me....
14 July 2021, 18:26
Guy Rump
Looking good Robert 👍
14 July 2021, 20:02
Robert Podkoński
Thank you, Guy 🙂 It needs a lot of repeated (read - tedious) puttying and sanding...
14 July 2021, 20:03
Mark
👀
14 July 2021, 20:39
Paweł W.
?
24 July 2021, 13:54
Robin (WhiteGlint)
Take-off mode looks great, in my opinion.
24 July 2021, 14:23
Robert Podkoński
Thank you, WhiteGlint, for your suggestion. I think it would be cool to make some dynamic-looking "water" base, but I have never tried to make one and I am afraid I am not able to...🙁 Instead, maybe I will try to make floats movable on some kind of hinges and with actuators... It is just a loose idea for now, of course 😉
24 July 2021, 15:43
Robin (WhiteGlint)
If it is resin you fear, you don't have to use it go make great water bases.
I used air-dry clay and AK Water Gel and it looks okay for a first try.

There is also another method with aluminium foil, white glue and some other stuff. Scale-a-ton made a nice video about this method.

Youtube Video
 
24 July 2021, 21:14
Robert Podkoński
Thank you very much, WhiteGlint, for this tutorial 🙂 I think, I will give it a try as soon as I will finish my Caproni Schneider Racer (successfully...I hope 🙂 ) I just reminded myself that once I made a simple water-based dio with Kami-de-Korokoro Piaggio-Pegna kit... 😉
25 July 2021, 09:22
Rui S
Thx for sharing the vídeo WhiteGlint👍
25 July 2021, 16:40
Robert Podkoński
I have started to collect aluminium wraps from chocolate already... I think I will need a whole lot of them 😉
8 August 2021, 06:43
Robin (WhiteGlint)
Looking forward to it 👍
8 August 2021, 08:32
David R. Meizoso
Can't miss that video, I have a bunch of seaplanes waiting to set sail. Thanks!
8 August 2021, 08:59
Isaac Kite
Such a tidy clean workspace. How do you get anything done?

; )
13 October 2023, 14:10
Robert Podkoński
I keep tools and models in dedicated boxes that I carry, forth and back, to the desk 😉
13 October 2023, 15:02
gorby
Looks an interesting (and suitably weird) project Robert.
8 May, 14:56
Robert Podkoński
Thanks, Gorby!
8 May, 16:48
Cuajete
Robert, I'm glad to read that you're resume this project. Good progress!
8 May, 18:26
Marko
I like to watch it happen. Interesting original, I've never seen it before. good luck robert👍
8 May, 19:09
Robert Podkoński
Thanks for your kind words, Cuajete and Marko, much appreciated 🙂
8 May, 19:11
gorby
Nice work Robert. I'd love to see it take off...if you could see it though all the steam it would produce. 😄
13 May, 06:57
Robert Podkoński
Thank you, Gorby! I suppose there would be a lot of steam and water spray behind 😉
13 May, 07:13
Guy Rump
Great result Robert! 👍
13 May, 07:50
Robert Podkoński
Thanks, Guy, much appreciated!
13 May, 07:51
Cuajete
Very nice job, Robert 👍
Congrats!
13 May, 17:39
Alex K
Big smile and two thumbs up 👍 👍
13 May, 18:41
Robert Podkoński
Thank you very much Cuajete and Alex, you're very kind 🙂
13 May, 20:17
Ben M
Very sleek!
14 May, 00:22
Robert Podkoński
🙂
14 May, 05:17
Greg Baker
Oh wow. I love it!
14 May, 05:21
Robert Podkoński
Thanks, Greg! I am just happy to hear that 🙂
14 May, 05:22
S M
Nice! Well done! 👍
15 May, 14:59
Robert Podkoński
Thank you, S M! Much appreciated 🙂
15 May, 15:42
J35J
Brilliant work! Congrats👍🏻
15 May, 16:25
Robert Podkoński
Thanks J35J! You're too kind 🙂
15 May, 16:26
Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful!
15 May, 18:54
Robert Podkoński
Thank you, Pietro 🙂
15 May, 20:06
Findus
Cooler Flieger und handwerklich tip umgesetzt.
21 May, 13:02
Robert Podkoński
Vielen dank, Findus!
21 May, 13:07
Oleg Smilyk
Well done.Robert! 👍Beautiful!
21 May, 14:47
Robert Podkoński
Thank you, Oleg. You're too kind 🙂
21 May, 16:33
Bernd Grün
Great work, Robert! it turns out very nice. 👌 Congrats, mate!
21 May, 17:46
Robert Podkoński
Thanks, Bernd, much appreciated 🙂
21 May, 19:02
Marko
Great and successful conversion.Bravo! Nice to see such a rare bird here👍
23 May, 16:50
Robert Podkoński
Thank you for your kind words, Marko, much appreciated.
23 May, 18:25

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