Yokosuka E-14Y ‘Glen’ with catapult

[Dave Ward]

I looked in my stash for IJN submarines & found this:

The I-15 ( front ) carried the 'Glen' on operations, along with her other sisters ( 20 built in total )
Dave

[Jim R]

Neat start Tony. The cockpit will be more than adequate.

[Allen Dewire]

My Gawd!!!...There goes Tony flying off to the floaty side forever too!!! There's no hope for the world now. He'll probably go out and buy a 1/72 sub model and covert into the carrier for this kit, catapult and all. Oh well, I guess we'll see him in a year or two..................

All kidding aside, this looks like a pretty cool wing thingy kit and you are off to a great start Sir!!! I will have to go back and have a look at your saranwrap build too, Tony. Knowing your wingy work, it's gotta be a really nice build......

Prost
Allen

[papa 695]

Cracking start Tony.

[The Smythe Meister]

What an interesting thread this is
Great input there Dave,nice one.
Looking forward to seeing this built Tony.... carry on

[yak face]

Fuselage now together and wings and tailplanes on .No work needed on the joints , apart from the fact its a great fit , these would all have had natural break lines where they came off for storage in the tubular hangar . The two part engine cowling has been glued together after inserting the engine , but gives a tricky joint clean up due to the bumps . The canopy is also now on and ive made a start on the catapult .

[yak face]

Got the floats together now and a few more bits on the airframe - namely the tailplane braces and the separate Junkers style ailerons . And , no its not an old Matchbox kit :rolling:- the sprue containing the catapult and a few other bits was in dark grey
The instructions would have you glue one of the float struts to the floats and the other to the airframe before putting it all together but I’m going to see if I can assemble the floats complete with all the struts and attach them later after paint - it will just make painting up a lot easier .

[Tim Marlow]

Looking very good Tony. Certainly different :thumb2:

[yak face]

I’ve now got the awkward job of assembling the floats and all their struts sorted , this complete assembly can now be added last off after painting, which will make this job and masking loads easier . One thing I found though - while positioning the floats and struts for gluing , the model is the equivalent of a tail sitter . It is very tail heavy and would make positioning on the catapult tricky as it would have a tendency to fall backward. To solve this I drilled a hole under each of the floats and cut lots of little strips of lead which were fed in until they were heavy enough . The lead was fixed by squirting some painters mate through the holes and they have now been filled . I could have saved myself the trouble if I had just thought about this before I glued the floats together. DOH !
The supplied vinyl masks have been applied and after giving the canopy and underside windows a quick spray and clean up with Tamiya xf71 ( japanese int green ) the whole airframe was primed with Halfords grey . Once this was dry the empennage ( ooh big word!) was sprayed with white primer ready for the red . The black area on the nose was also done with primer . The aircraft I’m doing is the one in the pic below .

[JR]

Certainly taking shape now Tony.Those struts look fun !! NOT .

[yak face]

Silver now on , next up a sealing coat of gloss then decals

[papa 695]

Looking great Tony.

[The Smythe Meister]

Yep,
I like that a lot :smiling3:
Quite like float plane,I did a 1/72 Arado a while back,(don't tell anyone !! ), And really enjoyed it......,If only I could find a 1/48 one.... I'd be sorely tempted :smiling3:

[yak face]

Yep,
I like that a lot :smiling3:
Quite like float plane,I did a 1/72 Arado a while back,(don't tell anyone !! ), And really enjoyed it......,If only I could find a 1/48 one.... I'd be sorely tempted :smiling3:

Your wish is my command o master!
Italeri did one in 1/48 andy , but I think its discontinued , John did have them in the SM shop ( about £27) but its currently listed as out of stock / discontinued. The toolings have been reboxed by Tamiya however and are currently readily available but have doubled in price! Its the italeri kit in a different box so why they have to charge 50/60 quid is beyond me ! The other option is the Revell 1/32 kit but that has gone mental too ,the twin float version going for around £100 now , when it first came out it was about £25. The single float version is a bit cheaper but still goes for around £40

[The Smythe Meister]

Your wish is my command o master!
Italeri did one in 1/48 andy , but I think its discontinued , John did have them in the SM shop ( about £27) but its currently listed as out of stock / discontinued. The toolings have been reboxed by Tamiya however and are currently readily available but have doubled in price! Its the italeri kit in a different box so why they have to charge 50/60 quid is beyond me ! The other option is the Revell 1/32 kit but that has gone mental too ,the twin float version going for around £100 now , when it first came out it was about £25. The single float version is a bit cheaper but still goes for around £40

Thanks for that Tony. :smiling3:
It's the Twin float version that I'm mainly interested in.
Mind you,those prices are pretty steep aren't they..... mefinks if I want to keep the Crown Jewels in tact I'd better reduce/build a lot of the stash before shelling out that many of my Groats on a Plane!!