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PBN1 Nomad, 1/72 Broplan Conversion + Academy PBY5A


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Hi,

Some time ago I have bought Broplan conversion set to PBY6A and I had in stash PBY5A by Academy. But I realized, that the more interesting is other variant. I wrote to Broplan and the owner send me parts for hull, what made me possible do model of the the most distiguishable variant of Catalina - the Naval Factory PBN-1 Nomad.

nomad-box.jpg

 

I apprecieted very much this possibility.

I documented my buiild in WIP thread

sorry if not in very details. 

The Academy kit is fameous for its "said to be" too small diameter of cowlings. So I increased it to 18 mm (details in WIP thread).

 

Majority of Nomads went to Soviet Union. Mine is  one of machines from Pacific Flot, used in operations aginst Japan in August 1945

Decals by Techmod (stars) and Begemot ("29" are from Pe-2 set). Since in my stash I had PBY5A (and more proper would be PBY5) the beech u/c is scratch build with help of silicon/resin copying.

Here she is :

 

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Comments welcome

Regards

Jerzy-Wojtek

 

 

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On 6/16/2019 at 7:15 PM, MikeR said:

Nice!B)

 

Many thanks!

On 6/17/2019 at 6:05 AM, VG 33 said:

Hello

 

Fantastic job and I saw her in the flesh, with the huge and high quality of more than 400 Wojtek's models.

 

Patrick

Apprecieted! It was very nice to host you near my collection, I hope you are back home. How was on Modelbrno?

 

On 6/17/2019 at 6:24 AM, Luiz said:

Looking good!

 

Luiz.

Many thanks!

 

On 6/17/2019 at 9:31 AM, RidgeRunner said:

She looks great, Jerzy. :)

 

Martin

Thank you very much!

 

Best regards

Jerzy-Wojtek 

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6 hours ago, Ed Russell said:

Very nice job on the best looking Catalina of all.........!

Thank you Ed! Without your valuable and great help in photos and article it would not go that nice for sure!

BTW - Imagine, that yesterday and today I've seen Catalina in air - the Duxford one is now on an air show in Krakow! :)

Cheers

J-W

 

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