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First entry...wooden 1/28 th CATALINA PBY 5...


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Wow Erwin......

So the big question.... will this thing actually float?

Nice one

Doc

Good Q Doc,but I won't risk trying it out :rofl:

I must admitt that I had a hard time resisting to build this model untill the GB page was up.

So I did some building already. It's very far from the end, so I geuss it still falls under the rules.

The fuselage is done ...

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shoulda saved the hurricane for one of the upcoming GBs, either Eastern Front or Med/NA

Maybe I should have.But they don't start untill mid 2007.

This Hurricane is one I wanted to do for a long time.

But...I still have a wooden Fieseler Storch in the pile.

I shall save that one for the Med/NA GB.

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Why is that Erwin, surely the kit came with those pieces........?

Doc

Yes the kit had those.But when I compared them to the plastic 48 th Monogram kit they were all wrong.

They didn't do it for me. That's why I shall try to make it more like the real thing.

Sort of incorporated into the fuselage,rather than just stuck on top of it.

Here you see I got the overall shape of the fin.But it's still not correct...

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Next I used 1 mm balsa ans soaked it in water witch makes it soft and bendable.Then I pin it down to shape.When dry it stays in that shape for glueing...

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