Ryan ST Series

[Second Air Force]

I can't find my seascape base but I know it is in a box somewhere here. That is great looking, Nico. Perhaps I'll do the camouflaged version since you've done one in aluminum.

I can't find the little beaching wheels, but they were not too great if I recall. I will have to search about for a photo of the beaching gear the Dutch used if I can't find my water-base.

[draken35]

Nice work anyway...

[Second Air Force]

Primer applied and more work needed, but it's looking better.

Ryan ST Series

Nico, a question.. do you know what color the top surfaces would have been on the camouflaged Ryans? All I've found is olive drab, but I would have thought the paint would be locally applied overseas. There doesn't seem to be much other than that photo you posted of these little birds in camo. I also am wondering what the beaching gear would look like in the real world. As research subjects go, this little gem is pretty tough!

Scott

[Nico Braas]

As far as I am aware the Ryans kept their bare metal finish even after the outbreak of the hostilities.
See attached print of the wrecked S-19. Dornier Do-24 on background has camo, but STM not though this is land-version. Japanese forces captured a number of N.E.I. STM's and it seems they were not camouflaged at all before the Japanese applied a dark green scheme! Some STM's were still used after the war in private hands. Maybe a nice challenge to use Australian civil scheme, although I have never seen it.

[draken35]

Nice!!!

[Tweety]

Happy colors 

[Second Air Force]

Thanks for bringing this thread back to the front page, Tweety. The model has not had any work done to it since July of 2011 and you've reminded me that I need to finish it!

[Second Air Force]

Two years and seven months later.......I've gotten back to work on the STM! I've decided on the particular airplane to represent and I'm going forward again. First I finished sanding and filling seams and applied a bit of primer, then a coat of Jongblad for the top. The float bottoms then got some black to represent the anti-fouling paint used on the originals.

Ryan ST Series

[No.1]

Great, I almost forget this build

[Second Air Force]

This poor little kit has been sitting inside a plastic bag nestled between kit boxes for a long time! Every so often I would almost bring it out but only got serious last Friday.

[Nico Braas]

Here is an original Ryan works picture, taken in the United States.
It shows the land version!

[No.1]

Is there any Dutch samples with floats?

[Nico Braas]

KNIL/ML had some 60 Ryans on its inventory.
KNIL only used land version; MLD used both.
Some 24 MLD Ryans must have been fitted with floats.
Known example is S-11; which was also the subject of the old Testor 1:48 kit!!

[No.1]

So it is covered with plastic kit too, nice to hear

[Second Air Force]

Yes, and photos exist of S-54 on floats--the subject of this build......