The Officially Shameless PBY/Halloween '09 GB

simpilot34 wrote:

Alex!!! I don't want to hear any more talk about your Rocky mountain goat whiz commonly referred to as Coors! Make it Newcastle Brown Ale for me thanks! Aaron great looking Tarps my friend!!!!!!!!

LOL!  I haven't heard it called that recently...out here its usually referred to as Colorado Cool-aid.  How's your Catalina coming?

And I have to agree with everyone else on the penny tarps...sheer brilliance, Aaron!

Nam, thanks for the advice on white weathering...when you say amber, do you mean that the white paint yellowed slightly?  I hadn't considered that...

Eric, if you can get Nam to divulge what page has what you need, I'll scan it for you...I flipped through the D&S, the Walkaround, and the In Action, but didn't see what you want...

Sean, you answered my question before I even asked it...1/2 oz total weight for 1/72, huh?

Thom!!  Thanks so much for posting the instructions...the Academy color callouts are nonexistent, except when they're wrong.  

Aaron, sleeping on the job, huh?  BVD, Sir!  I think Thom deserves a promotion for covering Aaron's !    And now you lost your wheels too??    It's okay, I'm having one of those days too.  

(Rag on Aaron - Check!)

Seriously, if you really can't find 'em, there's a cheapo resin set by True Details...good luck though...check your painting area...I'm forever leaving stuff there.

Cheers,
Alex

Thanks.

Those are much nicer that the new release instructions.

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Hello All,

I scanned in the Revell Pro Modeler 1/48 PBY-5A Catalina instructions it is a 9+ mb pdf file that you can download from here.

Instructions

hth

Cheers,

Thom

Today is PBY Saturday !  Aaron's weighted tarps had the gears upstairs working overtime. I remembered I had "Sticky weights" from my Model RR days. I spent half the morning searching - but I found them .  These are 1/2 oz (14 gm) lead weights with an adhesive backing.  After mocking up  the wings and other parts on I found a 1/2 oz brought the bow (?) down where it should. I cut the weight in half and placed one under each of  the easy chair floorboards.

This bird is really dirty on the bottom.

link 

 Second to last on the right.

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lewbud wrote:

For those of you who have some spare time on your hands, pick up a copy of Clive Cussler's Mediterranean Caper.  In the opening chapter, the book's hero Dirk Pitt flies a PBY air to air against a Fokker DIII.  It's a good quick read, highly recommended.

This is what one of mine is based on.

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Hi Eric! I have the pix in an S/S In Action book but I have no scanner. There are some interior pics or links to them posted in this GB IIRC. If you can't find them someone may help or I will look around. You may buy a copy of the S/S book used at Alibris.com for very little money. And they ship quickly!

Edit: I'll check the figure stash

namrednef wrote:

What figures and scale are you looking for Eric? I've sent bags of them as far away as Britain. All I have are pilots and occasional groundcrew.

Well I was looking for the figures that come with the Pro Modeler kit and anything else in 1/48 that may fit in the PBY since you can see the nav/radio area through the top windows.

Also a 1/72 seated pilot with a cap or crush cap would work.

Even something that can have the heads swapped. 

Also does anyone have pix of the inside of a 5A ?

Mainly looking for pix of the bunk / galley area preferably with the bunks in stowed position.

The museum cutaway display is a 5 but I would like to see what the wheel wells look like on the inside. 

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 Sean: Don't rag ME about checking PM's! Check yours!

Message from the BVD:

In 1876, three salesmen started an undergarment company that thrives to this day.

Their names: Bradley, Voorhees and Day. Hence BVD!  But then I'm the BeneVolent Dictator....so I should know these things!

...."now YOU know......the REST of the story!"

What figures and scale are you looking for Eric? I've sent bags of them as far away as Britain. All I have are pilots and occasional groundcrew.

My experience with weathered white colors in real life was the white looked and was chalky. If you rubbed a finger on the paint some would be on your finger. These were Phantoms and Tomcats awaiting maintenance and painting in a very salty environment. There also would be some very faded amber colored areas, usually on the spine behind the pit to the tail.....this was evident even on gray upper paint.

Undersides could be problematic.....I saw the pristene and shabby. But of course those A/C usually didn't land on the water!

Roy....I agree with your opinion about Coors.........Newcastle is nice for quick change now and then, but I'm strongly into the whitebread red white and blue.....Bud!

Alex!!! I don't want to hear any more talk about your Rocky mountain goat whiz commonly referred to as Coors! Make it Newcastle Brown Ale for me thanks!

Aaron great looking Tarps my friend!!!!!!!!

Well looking through the few color pix I have from WWII some look a bit dirty on the keel area where others are shiny white while the rest of the plane is heavly weathered and dirty.

Maybe a bit of chipped paint and streaking of some dirt would work. 

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sfcmac wrote:

I've been thinking about scanning the Pro-modeler ones simply because they are cooler instructions. Ref pics and stuff right in there.

I'd be interested in seeing those since I have the new re-release Army version.

I'd also be interested in any figures that people don't want.

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 Alex I've been thinking about scanning the Pro-modeler ones simply because they are cooler instructions. Ref pics and stuff right in there. I have to go to work tonight but as soon as I wake up from my slumber I will be on it!

Thanks fellows but Frank gets the credit for the pennies and Nam and Sean's brain power for the tarps! Teamwork!  There is no eye in Tomato! When the going gets tough the Nam gets meat tenderizer and Sean gets a bigger hammer! Or uses his boots! 

 Hi HO HI HO!

Daywalker wrote:

Sean- You be careful there!  Hate to have you get flooded and float away.  They'll be scooping you outta the river by Mac's house!

Were good, thanks for the concern . There are a lot of people suffering from the snow and and flooding. We had the same thing happen last year, there are parts of Rainer State Park that I think are still closed due to flooding over on the West side.

Besides I wouldnt float by Aaron's place I might get to see Dave - as this river runs North into Canada. 

ALex if no~one comes through the best I could do would take a pic as my scanner kicks my butt

MKelley wrote:

daywalker, I think that you have come up with a fine wench for this GB. Are you snowed in with her!!!!!!!!!

Yessir- she's rubbing my shoulders right now after snow removal duties.  It's rough being me...

Mac- I love what you did with the tarps!  Well done my friend.

Sean- You be careful there!  Hate to have you get flooded and float away.  They'll be scooping you outta the river by Mac's house!

sfcmac, tarps look great looks like you have a packcat instead of a packmule!

daywalker, I think that you have come up with a fine wench for this GB. Are you snowed in with her!!!!!!!!!

namrednef wrote:

sfcmac wrote:  Yeah I think Sean got it covered. I figure a tarp is a tarp but I'll make one special just for you as described! Sorry to pick on ya but then what's really bad is Ol' Frank ain't been around since you sent him out to look for wenches.... Sir! THAT is because the XO knows when to put the mouse away and BUILD!

  You got it!  I mustered up the courage to start painting the FW-190 white.

  It looks like it would take an awful lot of water but then I thought so too and the hurricane surge came really close to us.  Just thinking of that stash Sean. Shame for the decals to get all wet.  You take care it can rise pretty fast.

And you Nam! I work with a mouse in one hand a paint brush in the other!  Dee is somewhere in the middle! I took both your advice after I finally pryed it outta yer aniebrietated carcus! # stacks are Seans color and 3 yours to keep it fair. Variety wasn't a bad idea. Gives contrast!  I also took Sean's mention of a stencil. Not USN but I had a few spare Navy decals in black which you can read thru the windows now. Pretty cool!  Thank you fellows!

 A little fading with dull coat and rubbing alcohol and I'll close er up. Unless you have any further complaints sir?  Nap time for me gotta work tonight! I was on a roll too!

sfcmac wrote:

You up pretty high on that hill Sean?

Yeah , I think so - If we get enough wate to fill the Valley and get in the yard there will have been more serious things leading up to that.  Not sure how high we actually are, here is a pic from Spring (not strapping on the snowshoes to go out and take one) before the water came up. On the point where the rocks turn white is about 12 ' from the water line there. Later on with the runoff the white will be under.

sfcmac wrote:

Yeah I think Sean got it covered. I figure a tarp is a tarp but I'll make one special just for you as described! Sorry to pick on ya but then what's really bad is Ol' Frank ain't been around since you sent him out to look for wenches....

Sir! THAT is because the XO knows when to put the mouse away and BUILD!

You probably already had better advice....I simply said 'olive drab or Navy gray!'

(Hope it didn't show up in FAW GB!)

sfcmac wrote:

Good grief I have become invisable!?!??!?  Alex! The interior at 1st appeared dark gray but my view of the back wall shows it to be Green zinc chromate heavily weathered! That's my story and I'm sticking with it! Dog gone Navy squid ignoring me! I'm gonna paint them Army green and be done with it I say!

Sorry Aaron! I replied to this about the tarps......wrong key....maybe wrong tab.....apologies!