Vought OS2U Kingfisher - 1:15 Scale

100% Scratch Built - Handcrafted Aluminum Model. 

Built between 2000 and 2015 - Highly detailed scale model - 1941 US Navy radio set -

Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior engine - Aircraft Catapult Diorama

Diorama showing the Kingfisher aboard the USS Arizona

Fuselage under construction showing bulkheads, frames, stringers and longerons

Fuselage under construction

Edo main float under construction showing lower frames

Edo center float bottom view

Fuselage with the main float attached

Pilot canopy

Model GF-12 and RU-17 transmitter and receiving equipment (on mm grid paper)

Model GF-12 and RU-17 transmitter and receiving equipment

Radio equipment

Pilot's main instrument panel and auxiliary panel

Building pilot's seat and cockpit accessories in aluminum

1:15 scale Pratt & Whitney R-985 Wasp Junior engine

Fuselage with centre float

Fabric covered elevators and rudder

Stabilizing floats

The complete model in natural metal

The colors represent an OS2U aboard the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor, December 1941

Pilot's cockpit starboard side showing the electrical distribution panel

Observer/radio operator's Colt-Browning M2 .30 caliber machine gun

on a flexible ring mount

Pilot's instrument panel and telescopic sight

Close-up of the rear cockpit showing the radio equipment

Diorama showing the Kingfisher sitting on the catapult

Close-up of the propeller and Pratt & Whitney R-985 engine

View of the OS2U sitting on the carriage

Port wing showing fabric covered aft of the mainspar, spoiler, aileron and flap

Close-up front of the Edo main float

Complete model with the opened canopies

Complete model with the closed canopies

Diorama showing the Kingfisher aboard the USS Arizona