Norwegian 1/48 PBY5 Catalina

[sartois66 53]

Pics and stuff coming soon.

[Col. 7,433]

Look forward to seeing them Kirk.

[CliffB 5,745]

Hi Kirk

One of my favourite exhibits RAF Cosford Museum is their Danish Catalina so I am very much looking forward to seeing your Norwegian example

Cliff

[sartois66 53]

Hi Kirk

One of my favourite exhibits RAF Cosford Museum is their Danish Catalina so I am very much looking forward to seeing your Norwegian example

Cliff

Thanks Cliff, I would love to do a Danish one as well. I've seen the Cosford example and have it filled in my virtual ' to be built soonish file'!

[hgbn 683]

I'm going to look forward for this one Just happens to fancy Cats in every version or user.

http://www.seawings.co.uk/If you'll need a good source of good photo's a little difficult to navigate in there, but their walk around section is a gold vault including a collection of 147 photo's of the interior on the PBY-6A located in the Danish air museum in Stauning Denmark. http://www.flymuseum.dk/ like this one http://www.seawings.co.uk/images/RDAF%20Catalina%20L-861%20-%20Interior%20WR%20ex%20Erik%20Thingbo/17.jpg

Edited December 30, 2014 by hgbn

[sartois66 53]

So here are the bits and bobs I will be using, along with an extra Eduard etch set or two, that are still on the way to me.

Cheers

Kirk

Edited January 5, 2015 by sartois66

[hgbn 683]

Hi Kirk

Don't know if you have seen this

http://ipmsdeutschland.de/Flugzeuge/Gaeste/Wolf_Catalina_de.html

http://ipmsdeutschland.de/Flugzeuge/Gaeste/Wolf_Catalina_pt2.html

http://ipmsdeutschland.de/Flugzeuge/Gaeste/Wolf_Catalina_pt3.html

might be good for references too.

[sartois66 53]

Hi Henrik, ah yes, I remember coming across this masterpiece a while back. Quite inspirational, bonkers and way beyond my skill, but very inspirational.

Thanks

Kirk

[snapper_city 3,256]

Looking forward to this. Got to love a big Cat.

[sartois66 53]

The plan is to do one of these two babys.

Found on Nils 'Vingtor' website http://vingtor.net/profiles_content.html

The only teeny tiny snag is that I am unable to find any other views or photos of either....yet! Won't slow the build anyway tho. 😀

Edited January 5, 2015 by sartois66

[hgbn 683]

To bad cats are so big. Almost want to do one of each of those profiles

[Col. 7,433]

A couple of interesting options there

To bad cats are so big. Almost want to do one of each of those profiles

a Couple of the Academy/Minicraft 144th scale kits to the rescue?

[hgbn 683]

Could be a solution Col. But I do prefer my favorite scale 1/72 and need to build at least 3 more, just to cover my RDAF collection 2 PBY-5A and a PBY-6A. Also got one of the Revell 1/48 Cats for Christmas which I plan to go crazy on and do a Cut away RDAF PBY-5A. Still debating which color scheme its going to wear. a overall Gloss Sea Blue or a gray/red with dayglo? But that's somewhere in the future.

[Vingtor 706]

A compendium can be downloaded from this site: http://flyblader.com/onewebmedia/Nr%209%20Catalina.pdf

Nils

[sartois66 53]

Superb, many thanks Nils, just what I needed. I'm just finishing off a 1/32 Tornado at the moment, but shall be diving straight into this build very soon.

[sartois66 53]

Time is racing on so I've made a start at last! This may not be quite as detailed as I originally intended, but I am conscious of the finish date fast approaching. So far I've done some basic painting and interior work along with some Eduard detailing. Another session or two should see this ready to close up and have it's tail chopped off ready for the Belcher Bits correction.

[stringbag 1,406]

Don't forget Mark's excellent WIP thread here.

[sartois66 53]

Oh yes, Stringbag, I have been watching in awe! Such fantastic craftsmanship.

Kirk.

[Col. 7,433]

Great to see this one making headway.

[CliffB 5,745]

I agree with Col. I've been looking to this one

Cliff

[sartois66 53]

Ready to close up the fuselage at last!

[Col. 7,433]

Great work on the interior painting and detail.

[CliffB 5,745]

That cockpit looks particularly nice

Cliff

[snapper_city 3,256]

Looking good.

[sartois66 53]

Thanks for the kind words gents. Fuselage now closed up,seams attended to. Wings reinforced and complete, also ready to paint, all transparencies masked and undercoated. This may scrape in before the deadline yet!