Thanks Marc and Marc, Dave, Bob and HKshooter.
Even though this took me a while to do, I still had lots of fun. I have come to realize the PBY flying boats were very beautiful aircraft , especially in this RCAF coastal command scheme. I am definitely going to do another one some time, maybe in a pacific cat scheme or post war RCAF with a nose conversion, maybe both!. The wash was fun to do as EVERTHING showed up on the white (GS "off white" actually). Unfortunately the area of the spine between the blisters got a little heavy of a coat of paint so the finely engraved detail there was pretty much lost. oh well, live and learn!
Also, I just barely got enough lead weight in to keep the nose on the ground, if you bump the shelf good, it sometimes tips back!