Grumman Goose

[Warbird Kid]

Newly finished Goose by the old man.

[mazdaP5]

That's great! I've been wanting one in 48'th, but the options are too cheap or too expensive.
Nice work there.

[The Inspector]

Nice job Chris! Who's kit? it could use a little 'detailing' love and some corrections ( prop hubs to start with, and R-985's are 9 cylinder, not 7) but looks like a good start.

[Warbird Kid]

All straight from the kit. lol It started out life like this:


Pre finished

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[spookythecat]

Are those the "Prop Blur" props? If so, I didn't realize they were offering them in 1/144.

[Warbird Kid]

They are, and yes they do make them for 1/144. No chopping and modifying here. They have two bladed, three bladed, and four bladed.

[spookythecat]

Looks like it's time to put in an order with them

[Rajay]

All straight from the kit. lol It started out life like this:

Pre finished

FYI: The "real" JMSDF 9013 was ex-USN JRF-5 BuNo. 87731 (Grumman c/n B-125) and it is still flying today - as McKinnon G-21G Turbo Goose s/n 1226, registered as N70AL. It came back to the US in 1968. Tom Danaher of Wichita Falls, TX bought it from the US Army Depot Command in Japan for $5,555.55 and a year later he sold it to Angus McKinnon for $15,000.00. Its conversion into a turbine-powered McKinnon G-21G was completed in March 1970. It is currently based near Detroit, MI.

[JohnB]

Lindbergh has re-released a 1/48th scale Goose. It's the old ITC kit with a huge hatch in the fuelage for batteries for when ITC had spinning props.
Not a terrible kit, but the tail is too short, too rounded....not good.
If you want a no-window display piece, repaint a Ertl Texaco (and other markings) bank....

Last edited by JohnB on Wed May 16, 2012 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[The Inspector]

CZECH MODELS makes a 1/48th G-21 kit, it has some minor details issues, but makes a nice model shelf buildup.

[Rajay]

I think that I once posted a list (somewhere else in this forum) of discrepancies with the Ertl Texaco Goose model as well. It is "molded" with a one-piece bow hatch (hinged at the front) as well as the BLM cargo door mod on the right side - neither of which were ever installed on that particular "red" Texaco Goose (NC3055, s/n 1054) which has always retained its original two-piece, side hinged bow hatch doors and the smallest, civilain type (i.e. pre-Navy JRF series) right hand emergency hatch. Ertl also did not correctly locate the Texaco logo decals on the sides of the fuselage.

I know because the remains of that airplane (last registered as N66QA but of course still s/n 1054) are sitting out in the back lot behind the building I'm in right now. Even though it was re-painted many times over the course of its life, it is now completely stripped down to the bare metal and the skin was etched by the original paint job and you can make out the remnants of the Texaco Star logo on the left side of the fuselage (behind the Hull Sta. 29 split at the secondary hull step) and the words "The Texas Company" on the vertical stab.

I'm also not sure about the green trim that they used on the engine cowlings - there doesn't seem to be any trim colors at all in the B&W photo of it in Ginter's Goose book. The Ertl model is painted completely red overall whereas the actual airplane had a black lower hull from the waterline down as was typical for civilian Gooses before the war. That black lower hull is just barely discernable in the aforementioned B&W photo. I have seen color photos of Texaco's Mallard that had green trim like that however. Maybe Ertl assumed that the Goose was painted the same way. I'm also guessing that maybe they used N600ZE (s/n B-100) for a technical reference when setting up the production of that coin bank model. Bill Rose still owned it during the time that the Ertl model was first created and it had both the one-piece bow hatch and BLM cargo door mods.