I purchased some 28mm pulp vehicles from Tobsen a few weeks back, and just tonight finished the painting of the
Seagull. For inspiration, I drew about equally from the classic early 20th C. speedboats and yachts, with their whitework and polished wood, and the bare aluminium asthetic of the
Spirit of Saint Louis and Art Deco design.
White hull with aluminium sponson decks, and the outermost sponson entirely aluminium, while the larger central hull section is dark, glossy wood on top.
The vertical stabilizer is white, with blue and red vertical stripes in the style of the warplanes of the era.
I added some basic detail to the cockpit area - an instrument panel with a basic cluster of gauges and a compass on the dash, and painted in hints of details elsewhere in the cabin - a seat cushion and such.
It might yet get a little yachting club pennant & flagstaff on the bulge behind the cockpit - just the thing to snap merrily in the breeze as some wealthy playboy races madly to his next adventure aboard his shiny experimental speedboat!
Assuming it doesn't rain tomorrow, I'll get some higher quality photos outside in the sunlight. Wanted a couple of snaps of it on my workbench to show off now, though!