GB-61 1/72 PB2B-1 Catalina - Carrier and Maritime Aircraft

[A4K]

Cheers guys. Her 3D printed MGs arrived today

GasPatch #GAS19-72206:
Browning Cal.50 Flexible.
GasPatch #GAS19-72211:
Browning Cal.30 Flexible

 

[Wurger]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

They look good.

 

[A4K]

Yep, they are lovely Vic. I'll take a close up pic when the kids are asleep.

 

[A4K]

As promised Vic. .50 Cal. top, .30 Cal. below.

The .50s are for the waist gun postions, the .30s for the Eyeball turret in the nose. Another .30 was carried in the tunnel gun position (aft of the waistgun position bulkhead), but you won't see much of that through the blister windows (trademark feature of the PB2B-1) so a PE'd kit gun will do there.

 

[fubar57]

Very impressive for 1:72

 

[Vic Balshaw]

You just gotta love this 3D. Thanks Evan.

 

[A4K]

No worries Vic, and yeah Geo, impressive for any scale!

 

[Airframes]

They look the biz, especially in 1/72nd scale.

 

[Crimea_River]

The do look good. Tiny though!

 

[A4K]

Yep! (on both counts!)

 

[A4K]

Ordered some Aber .30 cal. and .50 cal. ammo belts (PE), and assembled tail planes yesterday. Pics up when cleaned up.

 

[Wayne Little]

Very nice additions there Evan.

 

[Wurger]

 

[A4K]

Cheers guys.
Got the fuselage halves off the sprues. Checking out what areas will be visible through the windows etc to see how much detail to add.

 

[Wurger]

 

[le_steph40]

Very nice project Evan

 

[A4K]

Merci Steph, és dzieki Wojtku.

Studying references, most kit windows will need reshaping and/or repositioning, aswell as adding 3 others, including the two blister windows in the tunnel gun position associated with the PB2B-1.

 

[A4K]

Not making any progress here at moment sorry, the little time I get for modelmaking is spent f'ing round trying to get the Bf 109H-1 cockpit to a standard I'm happy with.
If I'm unable to do anything soon, I may move this to the 'start and finish' threads instead, as continuous unfinished GB entries is not good for my head.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Plenty of time yet Evan before you need to decide. Give it another month.