I've been following along and I must say its been quite entertaining to watch your detective work. You've come up with some great reference photos.
The reference pics you're showing are great Kant. Great research you did here. This is (as the others already said) a really enjoyable build.
Wow, Kent. What a great pleasure to watch this build. So much research and improvements. All these little details. Wonderful!
Bye Manni
Thank you Gent's! I appreciate you are 'tagging' along - It's turning out to be the same story as usual...
I decided to built the kit out of the box and now I find myself rebuilding, scratching and 'hacking' my way through this kit!!
Now I'm using the time waiting for the Hex decals to do something about some of the issues with the floats...
Doesn't look like much, but the 'nose' has been widened to make it less pointed.
They have also been shortened to get the right shape of the front.
Found this photo of the construction of Friedrichshafen floats, showing the 'step's
and the reason why the 'stringers' are placed where they are.
The bottom has been fitted with new 'stringers' and i have created the sharp steps of the floats.
The fuselage is coming along, with some minor altercations to fit the MN 1247.
The forward engine 'ventilation? has been removed, those in the back have been 'opened' to an earlier version.
Four small vents have been added to the front of the cowling.
The propeller and the spinner have been painted.
I've also started on scratching the converted radiator of the CHFT version.
The tail part have been cleaned up, preshaded and fitted with brass rods to have better control for fitting.
Cockpit coaming done and the ring from the HB W.29 has been fitted to fit the new observers seat.
Cheers: Kent