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16 May 2019, 00:04
Greg Baker
Can anyone help me identify the floatplane in these pages? I think it's a fictional amalgamation, but I'm opening it up to the academy for their learned opinion... I also threw in two tanks which should be easy for someone who knows something about them... unlike me.
16 May 2019, 00:06
Nathan Dempsey
Man, that's a doozie. That back stepped window screams Cessna, but the radial engine...
16 May 2019, 00:54
Greg Baker
Say, perhaps... someone married the top of a Cessna 172 to... a T-6 Texan... hypothetically, of course...
16 May 2019, 02:44
Christian Mundt
Picture #5 shows an M1 Abrams, #6 is a Leopard 1.
16 May 2019, 03:13
Greg Baker
Thanks Christian! I knew that would be the easy part.
16 May 2019, 03:22
Wim van der Luijt
DHC Beaver? [img1] [img2]?la=en&sc=0.5&hash=5CCB4ED1280BD99E8FB141C3229F2EC595E70EA1 [img3] (Dutch Markings make every plane 50 % cooler off course)
 
16 May 2019, 06:09
Bart Goesaert
the only thing puzzling me so far with all mentioned types is the rather pronounced backwindow behind the wings... so still searching

en.wikipedia.org/wik.._amphibious_aircraft
16 May 2019, 06:40
Chris Greathouse
-- unrelated - The yellow one is Kenmore Air, which runs out of Lake Union in Seattle, WA... Lived in Seattle for 5 years, always fun watching these guys land and take off. I kind of miss the busyness of the city, but I still live nearby. It's always fun to see something that is local to you, ya know?
16 May 2019, 07:37
playtime 222
It's a mish-mash. The radial engine and prop suggests Beaver but the wing shape, fuselage shape and well, everything else just is not a Beaver 😄 There's a chance it's SUPPOSED to be a Beaver... but I expect the artist just came up with 'something'.
16 May 2019, 08:00
Greg Baker
That's what I suspected, but I'm not confident in my ability to accurately discount the possibility that it exists... 😄
16 May 2019, 08:03
Matthew A
Could be something closer to home a far-eastern job
16 May 2019, 09:51
Matthew A
I've seen wings like that recently - problem is I've been thru hundreds of Ukrainian, Russian and Italian magazines this month - It's bugging me - I've definitely seen those wings
16 May 2019, 10:28
Greg Baker
well... I just happen to have a leftover top half of a cabin and elevated wing from a 1/144 Cessna 172 and a leftover (and slightly used) T-6 Texan. A few floats and I think I can make it look passably similar.
16 May 2019, 11:15
Matthew A
the wings will need to be extended to match the manga as the Cessna 172 doesn't match [img1]
 
16 May 2019, 11:37
Nathan Dempsey
I'm doing entirely too much searching for floatplanes on Google. Apparently I'm going to have to build a few now. 😛
16 May 2019, 12:28
Greg Baker
I think that's a very good idea, Nathan...
17 May 2019, 02:28

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Can anyone help me identify the float plane in these manga pages? It looks a bit like a DHC Beaver to me, but I suspect it's simply a fictional amalgamation. I just wanted to be sure, so I'm opening up the request to the academy.

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