Grumman G-44 Widgeon

Bryan K

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Grumman G-44 Widgeon. WW2 era amphibious shore patrol and sub hunter. Civilian airframe still in use around the world today.

This will hopefully not take as long as my previous models since I have actual plans for a change.

pilou

An another task!

Bryan K

Hmmm.

pbacot

Nice choice. These planes have such muscular form.

Are you going use Artisan?

Bryan K

@pbacot said:

Nice choice. These planes have such muscular form.

Are you going use Artisan?

Thanks.

I'm using Curviloft. I'll be using Tools on Surface for the windshield and Joint Push/Pull in some other areas.

I'm getting more or less the same smoothing and as Artisan. I tried an experiment with Artisan and it didn't really make any significant difference.

Also, the rear of the plane really is that boxy, but it still needs some tweaking. I'll probably adjust it more over the next few days.

Krisidious

watching...

hellnbak

An ambitious project, I'll be watching your progress.

What do you estimate, two, maybe three days?

Bryan K

@hellnbak said:

An ambitious project, I'll be watching your progress.

What do you estimate, two, maybe three days?

Weeks.

Mike Amos

One of the nicer looking floatplanes/seaplanes around and an interesting project. Lots of tweaking on the way I reckon but the start is good, as long as the plans agree between different views when guesswork is the only option to retain sanity.

tadema

Weeks.

Looking good Bryan, my old Mam used to say...what's worth having is worth waiting for.

Have you tried TIG's Extrusion tool set, they're great.

John

Bryan K

@tadema said:

Weeks.

Looking good Bryan, my old Mam used to say...what's worth having is worth waiting for.

Have you tried TIG's Extrusion tool set, they're great.

John

Oh NOW you tell me. (seriously, I WILL have to try those on another project or on this one if needed. They look incredible!)

For now, I'm sticking with Curviloft and intersect model when required.

I was going to put serious hours into this today, but I'm not feeling too good. Not sick, just not "all here". I am still planning on working on it some, though.

Bryan K

Here's what 7 hours look like. A tail. Yep. That's it. Why? Because things that could go wrong did go wrong. Zoom was unstable. Intersect model didn't work right the first 6 times. Polygons were not closing right. Groups and components kept giving me problems. I really think my PC is getting old.

But mostly, zoom was being a pain and making it hard to do detail work. It would often go right past the area I wanted to focus on and then it would zoom out only extremely slowly.

But hey, not a bad looking tail, right? If you look close, you can see the pivot pins in the rudder and trim tab.

Noticed more problems with the main fuselage. sigh Some major rework right there.

Another thing I've learned is the blueprint much be really sharp. The ones I have are fuzzy crap close up, so I'm having to guess a lot where things connect.

Bryan K

Hmm. Only took about and hour and half for the clean up.

hellnbak

Looking damned good!

I can tell this is going to be one fine model.

You inspired me to take a crack at an airplane. Whaddya think?

Thinking about adding some weapons, and maybe some wheels with high-speed hubcaps.

Mike Amos

@hellnbak said:

Thinking about adding some weapons, and maybe some wheels with high-speed hubcaps.

Nah just some go faster stripes and it's done.

Bryan, if you get tempted to do another flying boat there is a rather larger type that might make use of sketchup v15 called the Saunders Roe Princess. The largest all metal flying boat ever flown. Not sure exactly how it would match up to the Spruce Goose but it is certainly a big beast. Ten turboprops would make a bit of a racket though so ear defenders might be needed.

Saunders Roe Princess.