Battle of the Atlantic Feb. 1 to Aug 1, 2006

Ooops my bad  can't wait to see some pics though.

Cheers

Bear

Jay If my memory serves me right they were called Canso because they were built by Consolidated (Consolidated PBY) and it was canadianized to Canso.  Can any one else back me up on this one or am I totaly out to lunch???

Cheers

Bear

Jay here's what I found at http://www.warbirdalley.com/cat.htm.

"Over the years, numerous improvements were made to the design. An amphibious version, the PBY-5A, was developed in 1939, through the addition of a retractable tricycle undercarriage. The PBY-6A featured hydrodynamic improvements designed by the Naval Aircraft Factory. The Soviet Union produced a license-built version for their Navy called the GST and powered by Mikulin M-62 radial engines. Boeing Aircraft of Canada built the PB2B-1 and PB2B-2 ("Canso"), and a derivative of the PBY-5A was built by Canadian Vickers. In US Army Air Force service, the aircraft was known as the OA-10A (PBY-5A) and OA-10B (PBY-6A). The Royal Air Force's Coastal Command flew Catalinas under the designations Catalina Mk I/II/III/IV."

So I'm not totaly out to lunch.

Cheers

Bear

Well-- technically I am a day late-- but it was too bloody hot to take pics until today.  I am having trouble deciding how I want to end up displaying this one-- might try to have a small ship model for a forced perspective type setup-- or maybe I'll just hang it up. 

Anyways-- this shot is a little inaccurate with the incorrect direction of a dive and all-- but it shows the prop I created-

But-- this is a bit more typical of a diving dive bomber-- and it took about 20 minutes to setup-- so I hope you all appreciate what I do for you

Looks great Mike.  Very nice work.  I like the diving pose a lot.

Regards,  Rick

Mike Great job it looks good

Cheers

Bear

Progress Report:  I'm waaaay behind but I am still plugging away.  Looks like I won't be done until the end of the month.

A couple more things to add and then it's time to start filling seams.  Hope to be able to start painting by the end of the weekend.

Looking good Dave keep up the good work.  How are the house reno's coming along?  I'm starting to see a light at the end of the saw dust tunnel

Cheers

Bear

Hmm renos... could be good, could be bad.

I am starting two weeks of holiday this weekend (whoohoo!) but I'll be starting to redo my fence... No sure how it is going to go as I need to fix my gates and replace some boards.  We're also doing a trip into the mountains for a few days so I don't think I'll get a whole lot done on my models but we'll see!

Very nice work Dave.  That's going to be an impressive model.

Regards,  Rick

Enjoy your holidays Jay, mine seemed waaaay too short.

Rick, thanks! 

Thanks Dave, I plan on enjoying them to the fullest!  My Canso is moving slowly towards the finish line.  Well no one said the aircraft was fast anyway, what was their average cruising speed 175 mph compared to fighters at like 400mph?  Anyway it is now ready for a wash. 

Ugh I just forgot, I wanted to put on some depth charges and I have to scratch them from some other 1:72 bombs I have.  I am actually not looking forward that for some reason...

Jay Have a great vacation don't work to hard.  Looking forward to more pics.

Cheers

Bear

Thanks Marc.  I'm so close to finishing that I think I'll wait and take final pics rather than another set of "in progress pics".  Sorry to keep y'all waiting.

About that "not working too hard" bit, tell that to my wife!  I keep telling her to take a nap when little Matthew is sleeping but she cleans, vacuums or folds laundry.  I'm afraid she'll burn out soon.

Ok here goes if you think it will work.

Mrs Jay STOP WORKING so hard take it easy don't burn yourself out let jay do all the work

 Enjoy your vacation

Cheers

Bear

It is finished!  The Accurate Miniatures Avenger is a much better kit than I produced.  I had major problems with cockpit fit, which lead to fuselage fit, which ended up with canopy fit issues.  The large insigna decals started cracking after application.  Also, I misread the instructions, installed the struts on the wrong side, tried to use CA debonder (which didn't work but melted the upper wing, which I discovered a week later).  Anyway, long story short, I hope to build another one in the future (not soon!) when I can spread the build out over a year or so.

Dave-thanks for hosting.  Interesting topic-maybe we can do it again sometime soon.

Looks good from here Bob.

Regards,  Rick

Bob The Avenger looks great.

Cheers

Bear

It has been awhile since I checked in here… even though I am sadly not in the build anymore… but since I have to reformat the hard drive on my laptop… for the 3^rd time… I have some time to kill.

Mike – Great job on the SBD

Dave - nice progress on the 290.  That will be nice when done.

Bob – Well done on the Avenger… I like the Atlantic scheme.   I can’t wait to start (HA HA yeah right) my Helldiver from AC, NJ.

Jay – I no longer like you… because you are on a vacation and I am not.  OK so I am kidding.  Have a good one.

Looking forward to some pics Dave.

Regards,  Rick

Hey guys,

Finally got it painted and all sugar coated and she's ready for decals.  I debated on what paint scheme to use, the RLM 74/75 over 65 as shown in the kit instructions or to go with RLM 72/73 as some people have suggested these aircraft would have used the 72/73 when they first started doing the Atlantic patrols.  In the end the 74/75 won out because I had the paint on hand and didn't want to wait a couple of weeks for paint.

Hope to get it finished up this week.

Progress on my Canso for the last two weeks - ZERO

Progress on my Fence and Yard - LOTS

7 days traveling with wife and son to visit family/friends - Awesome!

Getting sick for the last few days of the holidays when I was planning on relaxing and winding down to do some modeling - Priceless! (and messy!)

For the most part it was a very good holiday.  I worked harder the first 5 days than I do sitting behind my desk!  It rained in the mountains which sucked but getting sick at the end of last week was the worst!  I'm back at work and hopefully will be able to get some modelling done in the next few nights.

Looking real good Dave.  Nice work.

Regards,  Rick