Tobsen's Seagull as a Yachtsman's Runabout (New Photos, 15 Sept!)

[Wirelizard]

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!

[Wirelizard]

Finally had both free time and daylight at the same time, so here's some better quality shots of the Seagull.



The dashboard w/ gauges is scrap styrene; the compass is a bit of round toothpick filed down; everything else is stock.



I like how the windscreen came up - white basecoat, messy wash of Reaper "Snow Shadow" (a very pale blue-grey), then white and straight Snow Shadow for highlights. The frame is aluminium, to go along with the rest of the boat.

One of you lazy sods could comment, you know!  Almost 150 views and nobody's even said "Boo"...

[elysium64]

Love the colour scheme, really captures the period, having seen your model I am now tempted into getting one.

[Wirelizard]

Speaking of 'capturing the period', the result of some messing about in my favourite photo editor:


Flickr photo page.

[Westfalia Chris]

Nice look! Now, that´s for the Campbell version. Next, buy another one and add gold-plated railings and fittings so it becomes suitable for a pulp Aristotle Onassis! 

[Doomhippie]

Come on, that photo is real...That's all the prove I need to believe anything.

[Mr.Dodo]

Boo.
Love it.