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PBY-5 RAAF Catalina "Black Cat" 1/144


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Didn't bother photographing tonight's work because there's nothing different to see but I:

 

- gave a second coat to the wing and tailplanes which are now really black

- puttied up that gap on the nose and another layer on the wheels.

 

All I have to do now is the sanding smooth, then paint the fuselage and stick the wing on and add the decals.

 

To get there I will have to sand the body tomorrow night and paint it that night (first coat). Then paint the second coat on Sunday night (I'm a few hours ahead of the UK, haha). 

 

Then the decals. Well, I don't know what I am going to do for the white lettering on the side yet - might have to freehand it so I can get the model done and then later when I find some decals I can go over that in black and apply them then. I went right through my stash and while I came up with several suitable roundels I couldn't find any white letters of the right size.

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Good progress! Sometimes important progress is made without nothing too photogenic to show :)

 

Regarding the lettering, could you make some tape masks to paint them? If the letters are not too fancy, perhaps it's not too difficult to make some masks.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

 

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Well, this is where I am at tonight (it's 1am Monday in Beijing). I'm calling it a day - had a huge weekend away in the mountains hiking and while I tried to advance this build after I got back (and doing a coat of black on Sat night while I was up there) i can't face staying up another 2 hours to knock it off.

 

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The red bit in the center of the fuselage roundels will be removed either by paint or with a little square of white decal over the top. I have scrounged these from the decal stash, so no, they are not precisely right. But they're not too far off.

 

What's left? Make FJ-K and A24-42 out of scrap decals. I can manage the FJ-K with what I have but it will be quite time consuming. 

 

So anyway, that's where I got to. Pretty close, and I will finish it up soon. Although I will miss the gallery deadline I will post it in here - thank you to those who followed my build!

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Impressive paint job you have there and good looking decals! I'll be looking forward to seeing this build finished, even after the GB deadline!

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

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thanks, the wingtop ones come from an Airfix P-51 I think! Sorry I couldn't make it but for me one of the good things about a group build  -apart from participating which is fun - is that it usually pushes my builds quite close to completion. There's only another night in this, which, with a bit of luck, could be tonight. So if I get it finished I'll be happy, deadline or no!

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That's great! I'll be around looking for further progress in the builds. I still have to finish mine as well, and I already have a week's worth of pictures to post in my thread.

 

Cheers

 

Jaime

 

 

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Tonight I tried to build up the markings but I have decided that I will find a different way because although this works it is very time consuming and doesn't look quite right. I think white letraset will be a better option.

 

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