Consolidated PBY-5a Catalina

Treehugger
A white Catalina (box art)? Nice! I'd like to see that.

Treehugger
And ofc nice scratch building inside the two machine gun blisters. 🙂 I built this thing in 3D on a computer, a long time ago, I just remembered, probably lost in one of my old style mechanical harddrive crashes, like with some other projects of mine. 🙁

Spanjaard
Catalinas are beautiful.... in any color 🙂
but i have not seen a white one before, i think 🙂
nice details

Lochsa River
sittin in....a Catalina!

Ben M
watching this one.

Andy Ball
Catatonic: got to see how this works out?!....

Davy Vos
Thanks for the comments all!

Its not going to be white, sorry. I'm going for the PBY-5A Catalina Bu.No 2459 73-P-9 flown by Lt(jg) R.B. Hopgood of VP-73, Reykjavik, Iceland, August 1942.

@Treehugger: Too bad you lost that 3D Cat, would have loved to see that!
@Andy Ball: LOL 😄

Derek Huggett
To those of us who grew up with Airfix, Catalinas were always white! (The Revell 'Black Cat' came as quite a shock when first released). Please treat this 'old soldier' with the care it deserves (but it looks like you already are - some really great scratch-building). 👍😉

Łukasz Gliński
Impressive detailing, will follow 👍

Davy Vos
I'm doing the best I can Derek! Thanks, and you too Łukasz! 🙂

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
I think I had this box when I was in secondary school, around 1980...
Never finished it then, but stayed fascinated with Catalinas (they ARE white!) since. Especially because it was Jacques Cousteau's plane too.
I'm in the port-side bubble, following.

Davy Vos
Didn't know that about Jacques Cousteau! Great to have you on board!😉

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
Jacques Cousteau's son, Philippe, actually died in it during an accident while testing the hull for leaks.
aviation-safety.net/..rd.php?id=19790628-0

Derek Huggett
Also - Cousteau's PBY (The Cousteau Society Flying Boat), Revell No. H576 1:72 - hard to find now. 🙂

Guy Rump
Looking really good so far, following with interest 🙂

Davy Vos
Thanks for the interesting information gents! ????????

Maciej Bellos
Following!

Gary Victory
Really nice work so far. 🙂

Burkhard D
Grest work, turning the Airfix kit into a little gem. 🙂

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
But... But... But!? It isn't white anymore!!! 😛

Dave Flitton
Wow!

Andy Ball
this is real "base-metal to gold" stuff here! never has an olde-Airfix kit received so much attention!

Davy Vos
Thank you very much for the kind words 🙂

Bernd Korte
Great work! A real inspiration how you are using the "disadvantages" of this old kit (aka raised detail) to make it all the more realistic!

playtime 222
Nice weathering.

Thomas Bischoff
Awesome work! A lot of details and I love the effect with the oil colours

HSC1932
Very very nice

Cuajete
Fantastic interiors and painting job for this vintage kit. Following...

Davy Vos
Thank you very much all! And yes Bernd, my goal was to achieve a result with all the respect for the old skool raised details. Glad this isn't unseen! 🙂

Pierre Pierre
very verypannel work

Sam R.
Been following this on Instagram, can't wait for it to be done! She's looking good already with her landing gear!

Davy Vos
On Instagram you're a few steps ahead mate! What a privelege 😛 😉