The Officially Shameless PBY/Halloween '09 GB

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

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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!"

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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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

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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This bird is really dirty on the bottom.

link 

 Second to last on the right.

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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.

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

Thanks.

Those are much nicer that the new release instructions.

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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

Ah! See!  One of those days! I hit the 'Post' button too quickly...

Eric, for your interior...for what its worth, check out this build.  I'm sure its been posted before, but it is immaculate work, and he didn't bother doing much at all to the interior of the wheel wells:
http://www.ipms-deutschland.business.t-online.de/Flugzeuge/Gaeste/Wolf_Catalina.html

I think its safe to use that as reference. 

Thom, A guy I know, Bryan Ribbans runs a website called Seawings.  He's interested in your PBY stuff, and wants to talk to you.  Here's a link to the discussion...Don't be offended by Tasse...he's kind of an .
http://www.bestfreeforums.com/forums/i-just-found-out-about-a-pby-site-i-hadnt-seen-before-vt419-httpseawingscou.html

Cheers,
Alex
 

Thanks for the link.

I actually have all thos pix saved.

I did watch a video on youtube that had a quick glims of what I needed to know. 

By the way, while tinkering with the bulkheads and floors I realized the cockpit floor on the Academy 1/72 is wrong.

There shouldn't be that big open slot down the middle.

Time to use the 1/48 for reference to make a new one that will accommodate the wheel well below. 

Since I have thin vacformed windows it will be seen.

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The 1/72 CG PBY progress has been good today. I actually could have joined the Fuse halfs , but since I decided to order a set of mask for this and the  1/48 scale PBY  .. I also ordered a Vacuform canopy set - waiting for that before I go any farther.

Bondo - this is for you, you commented on another thread about my Prop. Shaft blocks  - I did the same on this build. I like the prop to be one of the last steps.No mishaps that way. I cut a small square of styrene scrap and cemented the four contact corners. This way I can glue the Prop. on later without fear of the shaft falling in to never be seen again.

http://www.pbyrescue.com/ 

If you go to their photos section, there's a lot to look at.

On another note, can anyone tell me if the part of the wing that the float retracts into is actually chromate primer, like Academy calls for, or if it was oversprayed with the undersurfaces color?  I'm toying around with an idea for a neat effect.  'The Dabster' was beat all to hell, with chipped and faded paint everywhere...I'm thinking about painting that part of the wing chromate primer, then applying chipped black paint over it, so the green shows through...Whaddya think?  I'm not sure if it would look odd or if it would work.

Cheers,
Alex

Hmmm Great stuff Sean! Great tip on the prop shafts!  Still haven't found my wheels? Huh? Musta put them in a real safe place to dry. The will turn up. Always do..  Been messing round painting stuff on and off all day to let it dry in between.  Trying to be a patient little builder.  Really I have amazed myself. These wheels have to be with-in an arms reach of my chair. I am just astounded!  I don't really need them right at the moment anyhow but it's odd ya KNow? Thanks for the info and offers but this is getting personal!

 Alex! You never said? Did you set a date? Got a ring?  What's the poop did you get down on one knee?  Inquiring minds want to know!  Did she at least say yes or just laugh? I'd make you shave before you kissed me!  Coor's breath!

 Good grief pick on Aaron day?

sfcmac wrote:

Anyone seen where I put my wheels?

Check under the Tarps

I lost the Prop, landing gear for a revell 1/72 Corsair several months ago. I put them in a ziplock so they would not get lost and .... I have not seen them since.

cardshark_14, Thanks for the heads up onthe PBY web site. Looked around and found a color photo of the one that I am trying to complete for the GB.

As you can see she is going to be a colorful bird. This gives me a great look at what it will look like when I am done . Now I have no excuse on the finish!

sfcmac wrote:

Alex! You never said? Did you set a date? Got a ring?  What's the poop did you get down on one knee?  Inquiring minds want to know!  Did she at least say yes or just laugh? I'd make you shave before you kissed me!  Coor's breath! Good grief pick on Aaron day?

I did it right.  I took her Dad out to the Boeing Museum of Flight (he's an airplane guy too) then to a nice Italian restaurant without her knowing and asked for his blessing.  A few days later, I took her up to her favorite mountain overlook of the city, then got down on one knee, in the middle of the snow and yuck and freezing cold in Seattle, at her favorite mountain overlook of the city at night on New Year's Eve, and...she said yes!  We watched the ball drop, and the fireworks shoot off the Space Needle.  Then we went back to her folks' house and told everyone and had a big party!  I had gotten a ring, and brought it up with me, without her knowing a thing about it...so I put it on her finger then.  She loves it!  We haven't set an exact date yet, but its going to be late July or early August of this year.

And, yeah, I shaved first! LOL!  I'm actually a pretty clean shaven guy, it just grows really quickly.  If you've seen me in the last 2 Secret Santa GBs, I haven't shaved that morning...one day later, and its like I never shaved at all.

Anyways, we've been busy planning wedding stuff ever since.  She has a big deadline on Monday morning, so she's been at work all day today, which means a break from wedding planning, some time on here, a nice cold Coor's , and some modeling time!  Hooray!

Thanks for all the congratulations, everyone!  We're both really happy!

PS - Aaron, check the cushions...that's where I lose things all the time.

Cheers,
Alex

MKelley wrote:

cardshark_14, Thanks for the heads up onthe PBY web site. Looked around and found a color photo of the one that I am trying to complete for the GB. As you can see she is going to be a colorful bird. This gives me a great look at what it will look like when I am done . Now I have no excuse on the finish!

Dog gone it Alex! It's guys like you that make life so rough for guys like me!  Sounds like a freaky harliquine romance! I was expecting you to toss her a six pack of Coors with a ring made from the pop tops and say something like ,"So uh you wanna get hitched or just fool around"

Seriously congrats to you both!  I'm still all choked up hugging my fuzzy blanket after reading it. Just don't tell my wife. I got that dag burned anniversary to think up something. I still like the six pack idea!

BTW I picked the historically worst weather day of the year to get married! She still made it.

namrednef wrote:

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.

Summit wrote:

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 .

Summit wrote:

Bondo - this is for you, you commented on another thread about my Prop. Shaft blocks  - I did the same on this build. I like the prop to be one of the last steps.No mishaps that way. I cut a small square of styrene scrap and cemented the four contact corners. This way I can glue the Prop. on later without fear of the shaft falling in to never be seen again.

When I was in engineering class I designed a pressure vessel and drew it up. The Prof sez- " I understand that after the mechanic inside who tightens the bolts dries up and blows away, how are we going to get his tools out?"

Congratulations, Alex and Hillary!! I did the trad thing too, 22 years ago and it pissed her off, but we're still holding water and her Dad likes me a lot. Definitely plan to have that McCarthyite, Union busting, keep me frozen by the case horse runnoff at your reception!!!

Good grief, Seattle, in the day we used to drink Ranier Ale at 99 cent a 12 pack, and Oly, yeah!!!

Geez, one more post and I've fielded a basketball team of five eyes, five legs, five Johnsons and one and one half brains! Nice to get caught up, though.

Hmmm....OOOPS.

We're going to the beach tomorrow and the "supplies" are out on the porch...gotta go check em!!