Tag: Catalina
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PBY-2 Corrections Part 5
After quite a bit of sanding, filling, priming, and of course repeats of that process, I had a nice smooth waist area. However it’s now devoid of exterior detail like the panel lines and rivets. The panel lines were easy as I’ve done those before, however I have not had much luck adding rivets other…
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PBY-2 Corrections Part 4
I studied the hull’s interior parts and quickly realized the turret and cockpit would generally not be visible, even if painted aluminum. However the waist gunner/observer positions with those large hatches would be quite visible. So I studied the original Detail & Scale book on the PBY Catalina which has great pictures of the interior…
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Battle of the Atlantic
The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Association requested the Southern Maryland Scale Modelers build a number of ship and aircraft models for display to help tell the story of Naval Aviation as part of the World War II Battle of the Atlantic. Background The Battle of the Atlantic raged for the entire period of the…