PBY-5A Catalina

Choppa Nutta
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Nicolas Valtinson
I would love to do one of these

Choppa Nutta
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Choppa Nutta
The academy version is much better, mine fits poorly but then it is a a 1964 tooling 🙂
Liking the look of progress so far Gordon, nice to see you scratch building the interior, especially as none comes with the kit 🙂

Ebay.co.uk Item - Academy 1 72 PBY 5A Catalina Black Cat kit No 12487

Gordon Sørensen Autor
Thanks Choppa. Not sure how much of the cockpit will be visible, but am sure a lot will be seen through the bubbles on the back of the fuselage.

Choppa Nutta
yeah the back is a bit cavenous and without any detail in there it just looks odd, I've cheated on mine, I've just drawn in some detail with a black fine tip pen etc. inaccurate but effective 🙂

Clifford Keesler
I would love to build one of those, but it would have to be 1/48. 1/72 is just to small I can't see it anymore. But I still have a ESCI 1/72 F-27 Spanish Navy that I keep holding onto.

Gordon Sørensen Autor
Some Mr. Surfacer 1000 and some putty for the fuselage seems.

Gordon Sørensen Autor
Some work done on the wing. Fairly large wingspan when all three pieces are joined.

Derek Reeve
Oh wow, this is excellent.