Catalina beaching wheels in 1/72 scale

[Planebuilder62]

Hi there

I have an Academy 1/72 Catalina with real rubber tyres for the beaching wheels. I would like to replace these with plastic or resin ones, they scale out at 30’’ outside diameter for the tyres and 18’’ outside diameter for the hubs.

 

Any suggestions?
regards Toby

[Peter Roberts]

You could try casting them in resin?

[JWM]

If I may as - what is wrong with rubber? Is it aging badly? I am asking since sometime I use rubber o-rings especially for spoke wheels... 

In my Nomad and Catalina I used the resin copies of the ZTS PZL 37 Loś tires and resin copies of Academy gears.  The tires were 11 mm diameter so right for it. Here I mentioned this in post from June 4th 2019: 

Just to show here are final results  of both my conversions of PBY5A amphibians (Academy and Airfix) to flying boats with beaching wheels .

 

Still I have to do an Amphibian one! (and in US markings)

Regards

J-W

 

Edited July 24, 2022 by JWM