These boats were so good looking. But they've had very little attention from kitmakers. In IM plastic, anyway. And to my knowledge the beautiful Short C Class hasn't been moulded at all in IM in any scale. To me that's criminal, for a plane so evocative of its era. (I have the Welsh Models resin kit to build some time). There should also be a Sikorsky S 42, one of the big Latecoere boats...
As so often happens, my love for the Boeing Clipper has only increased in the course of building it. It's historic IMO as the plane which truly mastered Transatlantic passenger air travel. All too briefly, before WWII. And I've been treated to a wealth of fabulously nostalgic images from the Golden Era of flying, views of these graceful planes floating at rest in tropical waters, waves gently lapping around...
Sorry, got quite carried away there!
Mark