This is one of my most serious projects.
I've started it quite a while ago and I bet I'll need few more years to finnish
it. Although many people have been indirectly involved in this project, I got
some special help from famous Polish modelers - Mr. Andrzej Ziober and Mr. Wojtek
Fajga. Andrzej is my tutor in philosophy of opening models and Wojtek supported
me with excellent photoetched and resin parts.
PBY Catalina is one of the most beautiful
flying boats. I really admire smooth curves and wonderful constuction of this multipurpose
seaplane.
That is why I decided to build its quarter inch scale replica. Inspired by Mr. Jorge Roberto Wolf's 1:48 Catalina as well as superb opened models of Mr. Andrzej Ziober - I make my Catalina with removed pannels. Andrzej helped me to decide which ones should be taken off in order to portreit it in the most interesting way. The ones marked with blue outline will be removed revealling a superdetailed interior.
The aim is to depict a magnifcent construction of Catalina as well as to show the conditions in which her crew worked, lived and fought.
The first thing I did was removing bow walkways...
... and thinning up the fuselage halves.
Then I've marked spaces where pannels will be removed...
... and prepared new pannels with rivets.
Tuesday, 27 August 2013
To detail it up I used PVC 0,1 mm film,, some wire and cable coating and remaining bits from old PE frets.
I constantly check the fit.
To ease up the painting, I first sprayed interior green over all, and then started work on glazing.
It reduced masking to minimum and there was no risk, that I'd damage the assembly while inserting inner masks.
All bits are corresponding to picture reference I've previousy studied.
