I was just fooling around and extracted the Ta 152 floatplane in obj. I would like to make that to a paper model but I already got much stuff on my plate, if any designer want to take a crack at it PM me and I'll send you the file.
That will unfold in pepakura but it will be a rather chunky model, judging from the wireframe, just not a lot there. I take it it's from a game file. Historically this is one of those "what-if" air-craft as they never made one. They never made many to begin with being as it came out as a replacement for the FW-190 in 1945, which I do know they had a float version, and perhaps even the FW-190 long-nose which is hard to tell apart from the TA-152. I saw a few people take a make models of them with conversion kits or adding pontoons from a Japanese A6M2-N "Rufe" I suppose it was possible for you to add floats to the TA-152, they added them to just about everything else, Hinkels, Spitfires Messerschmitts you name it,
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but as fast as this one was and the purpose it was designed for (High altitude interceptor), doesn't make a lot of sense. I have a feeling you kick in that nitrous turbo boost and you would rip the floats right off! Since the Japanese got the go ahead to make them they would have been the logical ones to do so, no much need for a float plane in a landlocked country like Germany, but I guess they never got the chance.
I have both the FW-190 and the TA-152 meshes, in somewhat better shape than this mesh, I even made a TA-152 years ago, from hand drawn files, but never updated it, just the outer shell and cockpit. Revisiting this , it need to have all the whistles! need to drop in a detailed Jumo 213E liquid-cooled inverted V-12, or what's the point?
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and my TA-152
View attachment 159479 I do agree though! it is one COOL looking aircraft with floats! I always have room for one more model file! HINT HINT!!
Actually, floats are very robust, and add to the lift of an aircraft. They add a lot actually. They can be built to take very strong forces, and nothing they experience in the air will compared to what they endure in water, and runway landings.