I think it is abalone.

I'm digging the clam puns. The rest are crappie. I otter find away to get rid of them.

Tail feathers oops, tail fins installed. Wonder how the bottom of the fuselage was painted?

What the pilot of those planes with the black crosses see when they look behind them.

That is :censor: great !!!!

Do you think all the artwork will make it heavy? Maybe you should put it on a diet. Maybe cut off some of those "scales". I would hate to think that your plane would be too slow to get away from my "black cross" planes!!!! I just might have to fillet your fish in mid air!!! LOL!! Steve

Put the scales on a scale?
Weight for the right moment. Then go in for the gill shot.

I weight my standard E-flite Nieuport without battery then I put my fish on the scales with all parts to be added. It wieghts less than an oz more than the standard one. I just hope it don't need any weight added for blance because most of the printed paper is aft of the COG. I do have to be careful of those sharks that fly the black cross planes cause this is an unarmed training fish.

Get a gun on it and those sharks will be singing a different tuna, unless there's a grouper them.

We really Shad stop the fish jokes!!! Steve

I 'cuda started a new thread.
Dace going to lox this thread if we don't squid it.

Mahi mahi mahi, I must say, you're building with the precision of a sturgon. Love the pull pull, this plane is looking ducky.

What in the eel is wrong with it? It is suppost to look fishy.

I have pull-pull on all my WW1 planes except my GP SE5a.

Yeah man, this plane really has sole!!! Steve

We're really floundering for puns now.

must be an allied plane..if it was German, it would likely have Scalloped trailing edges :-)

I think this is the best one so far.

Yep, the only ones left will be found by the bottom feeders.

You guys had better be nice or we'll no longer be friends!! We'll become anenomes!!! LOL!! Steve

Na, we won't change our tuna, we'll always be on the same side of the glass.

The Flying Fish is ready to fly. It still needs a pilot and maybe a few touchups. Now I would like to have your opinions. How do you think the bottom of the fuselage was painted? I have left mine sliver, my wife thinks it looks best that way. Do you think the plane had scales on the bottom? or maybe black lines like the wings for fins? I can see the bottom of the wings in the pictures but not the bottom of the fuselage.

I would leave it silver. If at some point you discover what it was, you can add it.

Great idea, it also keeps the wife happy.

Degreen
You out did yourself this time I love it. One pretty plane.
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Came out great! Yep, I concur. I'd leave the bottom alone. Judging by other planes of the era, I'd say chances are good it was left factory stock.

Really like this one - it's creel cool.

Now for the pilot - I think you should make a grinning shark as a pilot. Sharks look great with scarves you know.