Thanks for the reply. But in this case, it's the wrong Catalina variant. the PBY-2 had rectangular hatches that could be opened to use the waist guns.
I can't get to it right now for some reason, but this pic shows what it looks like.
http://pby.org/WebPages.nsf/Photos+PBY-2/0454.01
My son (now 11) got me into modeling. I built a few when I was his age, but quit as I got older. Last October, for his birthday, we were at the hobby shop looking at diecast models and I told him we could get a kit and build it together for his birthday.
We choose the Revell P-61 Black Widow. A...
I am building the Academy 1/72 PBY-2 and was trying to find any pics that showed what the waist guns looked like. This was prior to the waist blister window.
Thanks in advance.