Tag: Academy

The purpose of this upgrade was to fix the too small nacelles and engines. There was a noticeable difference in the kit engines when compared to the RedRoo resin. The correctly sized resin engines where certainly bigger and the detail was that much better. Getting the firewalls, cowl flaps, engines, and cowlings on was very…

Wing construction completed. The recommended method (talking to modelers who have built the Academy PBY kit) of cementing the top halves of the 3 wing panels (center and 2x outer) and laying the upper half on a flat surface while the cement cures (then repeating for the bottom half) wasn’t possible given I’d installed the…

Back in August I began the 1/72 Academy PBY-2 kit. I’ve got quite a few of Academy’s Catalina’s in my stash and after I received Red Roo’s corrected engines/cowls I decided it was time to actually build one. I haven’t done a Yellow Wings subject for some time so that’s why I selected the PBY-2.…