Here comes my entry into the GB. The Super Cat, as modified by Slafco and featured in the film "Always". Originally a PBY-5A, she was retrofitted with R-2600 engines, a new fore deck and a larger rudder.
My model started with the Academy 1/72 PBY-5A "Black Cat", and included Draw Decals set for the aircraft, new engines, cowlings and props from a donor Italeri B-25, kit bashed nacelles, resin tires to replace the really inexplicable Academy rubber ones, and a scratch built rudder. Eduard masks, which are wrong for the blisters but will have to do.
This took a fair amount of time but I'm pretty happy with it.
Photographed at Buchanan Airfield, Concord CA, May 2009.
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