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Following on from the 1/350th models last week, a 1/700th scale set of three Sikorsky JRS-1 amphibians. 3D printed in FXD material and at a very reasonable price are now in my CLASSIC AIRSHIPS shop. The set includes one aircraft "in flight", one with it's u/c down and a "waterline" model. Each of these is available as a single model - details in the product description on the web page.

"53 S-43/JRS-1 "Baby Clippers" were produced (31 civil, 15 Navy, 2 Marine, and 5 USAAC)...... 10 of the Navy's JRS-1s were at Pearl Harbor on December 7th 1941, all survived the attack and one, BuNo 1063, is undergoing restoration at the Smithsonian today. Two civil S-43s have also survived, one originally owned by Howard Hughes and one at the Pima Air and Space Museum (painted as a Marine JRS-1)."
...from "Sikorsky S-43/JRS-1 Amphibian" by Steve Ginter (ISBN:0996825851)



Happy modeling!

Interesting model!

One of those was even used in Norway:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sikorsky_S-43_LN-DAG_at_Gressholmen.jpg

http://www.europeanairlines.no/the-history-of-a-norwegian-sikorsky-s-43/

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The detail differences between the S-43 and the JRS-1 were enough to make me decide that I had to do it as a separate model: click here to see the 1/700th scale set of three.
Just as with the JRS-1, you will find the S-43 in 1/700th, 1/350th and 1/285th scales in my CLASSIC AIRSHIPS shop.
Only when I got down to 1/1250th scale, did I decide that it was ok to adopt the "one size fits all" approach with my S-43/JRS-1 1/1250 scale set of three models.
As you might gather from all of this, I love this plane!!!

Thank you for offering also the S-43 variant! Already added to my wishlist for ordering it soon.

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