PBY-5A Catalina (Cutaway)

[CANicoll]

Kent,

 

OH, DAMN.. the Lights...       wow.   Those lights are AMAZING.

And the ladder antenna.  I may have missed a page or two of your build thread - did you go into how you did that?  I have a Cat I think I may start next and that is one area that I would really like to get right.  BTW, it will be a 'Black Cat' as it were.  Thanks for the inspiration!

 

Chris

[jean luc]

fantastic job 

[Piprm]

Kent ,

....if your trying to impress us.. then you succeeded! 

 

pip

[kkarlsen]

Could you ‘slide on' one of the outer wings if you wanted to..are they even built up?

 

I went for the short wings, because I wanted to focus on the interior of the hull.

I also wanted to leave some space for my future projects ;-)

 

Kent

[kkarlsen]

I'm going to miss these updates, that's for sure.

 

Sincerely,

Mark

 

Thanks Mark, you've been a great support on this project!

 

Kind regards: Kent

[kkarlsen]

Kent,

 

OH, DAMN.. the Lights...       wow.   Those lights are AMAZING.

And the ladder antenna.  I may have missed a page or two of your build thread - did you go into how you did that?  I have a Cat I think I may start next and that is one area that I would really like to get right.  BTW, it will be a 'Black Cat' as it were.  Thanks for the inspiration!

 

Chris

 

Thanks Chris, I will be looking forward for a 'black Cat' - One of my favorites too!

 

For the antenna, I had great benefit from the rigging work on the S.e.5a's.

I could do a short introduction how I did the 'ladder' antenna?

 

Regards: Kent

[kkarlsen]

Kent ,

....if your trying to impress us.. then you succeeded! 

 

pip

 

Thanks Pip

 

Actually I'm not! Trying to impress anybody. (Don't push that button)

 

Cheers Kent

[holzemjo]

I could do a short introduction how I did the 'ladder' antenna?

 

Regards: Kent

That would be very kind of you and I would greatly profit for my 1/48 Cat. So, yes please!

 

Greets, Jonas

[Jan_G]

Amazing build Kent!

great inspisration

jan

[Tolga ULGUR]

Outstanding.!!

Amazing build ...

Congratulation

[kkarlsen]

That would be very kind of you and I would greatly profit for my 1/48 Cat. So, yes please!

 

Greets, Jonas

 

I'm sure the hardcore rigging experts would have lots of ways of doing this, but the method I've used is very easy and 'painless'.

 

 

Materials used for the 'Ladder' antenna...

 

I decided to use black fishing line for the antenna, mostly because it's very easy to 'thread' the stiff line into the small tube pieces.

 

For the tubing I've heated some white cotton swap plastic tubing and stretched it into the desired thickness.

Then cut it into small pieces and thread them onto the line. No glue is used.

 

For the anchor points I've made some small eyelets from thin steel wire, drilled and CA glued in place.

 

 

The loops are threaded through the small tubing, Holes are then drilled in the hull and the antennas are pulled through the holes

and out of the cutaway openings. in this way, I was able to put some tension to the main antenna cables, to get the right amount

of curvature on the main antenna. Everything is fixed using CA glue.

 

For the middle antenna, between the 'ladders', Modelkasten Stretch Rigging Wire is used, not as easy to thread, but it has the

advantage of not being flat as EZ-line.

 

 

Hope it makes sense? Kent

[Trak-Tor]

Looks like some kind of magic to me...

 

Juraj

[holzemjo]

Thanks a lot! Still looks utterly complicated but now I have a place to start! Really an awesome model!

[Phartycr0c]

Kent can i congratulate you on a magnificent job, this build is an absolute stunning rendition of an iconic aircraft using an outstanding kit.

 

I make no apologies because as and when the time comes I will be mercilessly plagiarising your methods hoping to get at least somewhere near your result. 

 

The lighting is a real show stopper, allowing all that lovely detail to be seen in all its glory. 

 

Great work in every way, you should be justifiably proud.  

Edited February 23, 2018 by Phartycr0c

[RLWP]

The 'hidden' battery in the engine nacelle...

 

 

This is an excellent build, I ave really enjoyed following this

 

Seeing that battery... There is a trend in railway modelling circles to equip locos with sound chips. I have been wondering about bunging a motor and a sound chip into my P-51

 

Richard