sharkman
Master at Arms
I've been away for a bit because I've had an extremely busy field season at work. just really finished up the first week of November. I do have a long list of projects to complete (and I will at some point) but it is that time of year again for my local club's winter challenge build so I'm going to post that here.
I recently purchased an Academy 1/72 PBY-5 because I wanted the main wing for another future project and was wondering what I could use the fuselage for. Our challenge this year is any vehicle that passed though our local capital of Halifax, Nova Scotia over the years so I decided to build a PBY-5A that was operated by Eastern Provincial Airways and is currently being restored at one of our local museums.
You can see a bit of the history and a few pics on this link
http://acamuseum.ca/on-display/aircraft-collection/pby-5a-catalina-canso/
This is the kit
It is a nice kit but being a 5, I'll need to make some mods to a 5A. Why did I get a 5 instead of a 5A? It was a very good price and these Academy kits are getting expensive!
I started with the port side, drilling holes in the corners of the panels I need to show open with a pin vise and then cutting out the excess with a blade. then filing the opening.
I won't need many of the kits parts as the real aircraft is basically an empty shell at the moment.
i had some appropriate wheels and other parts that will be useful in converting this to a 5A in the spares box
I started to cut the canopy down
and worked on opening up the starboard side
And here's where it is at for the moment.
I recently purchased an Academy 1/72 PBY-5 because I wanted the main wing for another future project and was wondering what I could use the fuselage for. Our challenge this year is any vehicle that passed though our local capital of Halifax, Nova Scotia over the years so I decided to build a PBY-5A that was operated by Eastern Provincial Airways and is currently being restored at one of our local museums.
You can see a bit of the history and a few pics on this link
http://acamuseum.ca/on-display/aircraft-collection/pby-5a-catalina-canso/
This is the kit
It is a nice kit but being a 5, I'll need to make some mods to a 5A. Why did I get a 5 instead of a 5A? It was a very good price and these Academy kits are getting expensive!
I started with the port side, drilling holes in the corners of the panels I need to show open with a pin vise and then cutting out the excess with a blade. then filing the opening.
I won't need many of the kits parts as the real aircraft is basically an empty shell at the moment.
i had some appropriate wheels and other parts that will be useful in converting this to a 5A in the spares box
I started to cut the canopy down
and worked on opening up the starboard side
And here's where it is at for the moment.
Deffinitelly the hard way to make a 5A
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