1/700 Aircraft. I'm stuck in "Teeny" Gear! Zorn!

[Rhino]

The waterline hull for the Marlin. The portside forward hatch will be open for line handling and transferring supplies from small boats.
Marlins at anchor rest on one wing float or the other. I discovered some glaring flaws in the original castings. I'll fix those while I'm at it.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Something just doesn't look right about the waterline you have so I did some looky loo online and found these 3 photos.

I thought your waterline looked a little too tail down in the water and thought it should be sitting more level. A photo is worth more than my "it doesn't look right" feel.

 

[moon puppy]

Paul I think the cord of the wing root might be throwing you off. That wing looks like it's got a high aoa.

 

[Rhino]

Bear in mind the Marlin is resting on one wing float or the other. It isn't like a P-Boat (PBY), or PBM that sits on both wing floats at anchor. That and the P5M-2 (T-tail seaplane) is a slightly beefier airplane than the -1 Marlin. Cool pictures!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Actually what I was using for a guide was the top of the fuselage. In the photos it appears to be mostly flat with just a hint of slant down toward the tail. Also Chris I had one photo with the standard type tail. The photos are there for a reference, use them or not as it is your build. I just saw something that to me looked a little off, so I did a little looky-loo for reference photos.

 

[Rhino]

In order to provide proper maritime patrol and weather recon for my 1/700 US Coast Guard cutters,

I ordered 4 1/700 Spartan C-27J airplanes in white versatile plastic from Shapeways. You know, the course 3D print material that is a paint and clear gloss sponge.
It is bad form, indeed for airplanes, even in this dinky scale to lie on their tails.

7/32" Birdshot from a shotgun shell came to the rescue!

There, better! Properly sitting on their nose gear, even if these never get any more detail than this.
Better 1/700 USCG Spartans than these are on the way. Plenty of birdshot is left!

 

[moon puppy]

Nice fix!

 

[Rhino]

With the use of Back Aft Models decals and the TLAR Models 1/700 Martin P5M-1 waterline Marlin, the tiniest installment of honoring LT David Ellis Gay's US Navy service is complete. The littlest "Sunday Flyer".

 

[jeaton01]

Well done, Chris. Almost big enough not to lose on the bench.

 

[moon puppy]

Don't sneeze!

 

[Rhino]

"Marlin-on-a-steek" no longer! The TLAR 1/700 kit includes the full hull version of the P5M-1 Marlin as well. Carl's decals are exceptional! Both 1/350 and 1/700 scale Back Aft decals will be available on tlarmodels.com pretty soon!