Island Rush - EROTEMA - 1 of 1 – ASW patrol

[sigpro]

Grid A2

A lonely Erotema ASW flying boat is on patrol to hunt enemy submarines.

This is an old but relyable and enduring model, with a large payload and long range.

It has 4 turboprops on push-pull configuration, as models seen in the real world, like the Dornier Do 26 Wal and the Do 335 Pfeil.

1 ASW SIDE by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

2 ASW UP by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

3 ASW UP by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

4 ASW UP by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

This is the cockpit in detail.

6 ASW COCKPIT by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

7 ASW COCKPIT 2 by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

The radar operator breaks the silence...

7 ASW COCKPIT 3 by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

“Sir, I have a communication. S901 Triana has detected a submarine on the surface. 200 miles from our position, grid A2. It is an old model but can be carrying vaulable goods or nuclear weapons.”

“Ok, let´s go”.

And the flying boat loses altitude and starts flying over the waves.

5 ASW ON SEA by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

This is the enemy submarine…an old model even with an AA gun on the sail.

9 SUB 1 by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

A sailor is even fishing, or trying to.

9 SUB 2 by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

Detail of the AA gun.

9 SUB 3 by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

And when the flying boat is so close….a light ASW torpedo drops from its belly, with a parachute to slow it as it falls…

8 TORPEDO 1 by green helmet spanish AFOL, en Flickr

[SATSOK]

nice bird ;)

 

[TheBeeze]

You’ve been awarded ( 5 ) points.

Judges’ comments…

Nice to see you back here building. This build seemed a little impromptu but still welcome nonetheless. The plane was nicely done and the highlight here. There were several glaring gaps in things you had going on like the submarine shot that just had white board exposed. A little more time on this and it could have been much better.

PROS: The whole idea is clever as we never saw in GBW something like that. Also the plane in (probably) microfig scale in very interesting

CONS: The idea of the part of the submarine being out of water is smart, but I would like to see more of the submarine in length and not just a small part of it. And overall, this partial presentation greatly spoils the effort in the builds

SUGGESTIONS: If you could expand the sea, make the submarine bigger and combine them with the plane in one picture, the final build would be the least, impressive

 

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Edited October 22, 2020 by paintballman