PBY Catalina Airfix

Choppa Nutta
I can't believe how much weight I needed to get this to be definitely not a tail sitter !!
16 pence and ounce of Plasticine ! Chunky ! 🙂

Still though the painted on detail cheap trick kind of works, saved me a fortune in photoetch !! 😄

Choppa Nutta
This really is an old dog of a kit though 🙂

scalemates
👍

Choppa Nutta
Thanks bud, much appreciated 😄

Ben STONE
It is a dog Choppa. However that's a very good way to weight a plane.

Choppa Nutta
yeah it's a dog alright !! 🙂
the interior was so bare it was like a canvas, so I thought I'd have a go at painting on the details rather than scratch building them, a cheap trick but once closed up it should give an ok impression of an interior 🙂

Dave Flitton
Nice work!

Marc Schimmler
Just a word of waring. Plastine can contain softeners that "could"destroy the polystyrene ... Had my share of experience ...

Derek Huggett
Looks like it is too late to 'change'! (All 16p!)

Edgars Bizūns
This is looking good 🙂

Choppa Nutta
Cheers chaps 👍

Mark, I didn't know that, I've been using plasticine nose weights for a while now no problems as yet but I'll keep an eye for it now 🙂
But I did give the surface a couple coats of paint, a clear coat and where the plasticine touches a layer of Revells Contacta, that should it back for a while I would hope 🙂

Mind you I did put a fair bit in the leading edges of the wings with the plastic unpainted, well as Derek put it, too late to change, Ka Ching ! 🙂

The Plasticine Rot Experiment has begun !!
I'd best keep the paint job nice and simple then 🙂

Marc Schimmler
I can only guess, but there are real differences in the quality. Artist quality is sulphur free. The paint should do the job.

Choppa Nutta
Artist quality ? I bought the branded Plasticine stuff, is that the same thing ?
It's the nicest to use that I have found so far, didn't think there might be an artist quality version of it..

Marc Schimmler
Just checked.
There are different recipes.
Seems like the US version also includes petroleum jelly ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasticine

Choppa Nutta
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Looks like Newplast is the way to go !! 🙂
Much cheaper too !!

artifolk.co.uk/craft..ng-material-500g.htm

Marc Schimmler
🙂

Cristian Bordina
So far, really wonderful Choppa. You made a great job with the interieurs. Mine (I've done it 5 years ago) unfortunately must be supported by a transparent stick under the tail....and all for save my cents ;D

Stephan Ryll
very nice choppa 👍
- I had this kit back in the 70th..... i can tell you - it didn´t swim in the bath tube for long 😄

Choppa Nutta
Why was that Steve, was it better off in the sink ? 😄

But thanks gents, glad you like so far, it's probably down hill from here though haha 😄

Stephan Ryll
the hull wasn't glued good enough 😄 - as far as I can remember back in the 70th glue came in a bulky tube - which gave you too much or to less glue or the tube got broken and everything was overglued ;D

Leif Adams
That interior looks so good I can smell it.

Choppa Nutta
yeah the bright blue plasticine really does give it that realistic finish ! haha 😄

Marko Paakkanen
very nice detailing.. looks extremely good!

Choppa Nutta
.......You are way to kind Marko, no really, I cheated !!

All that detail is largely paint onto a flat surface with some felt pen drawn over the top,
impressionist modelling one might say😉

But I do appreciate your encouragement 😄

Derek Huggett
And I thought the 'impression' was that left in the plasticine! Seriously though, it looks brilliant! Will this be the 'next thing' after graduated shading?

Marko Paakkanen
I see at details are painting.. but that detailing give lot --but i think at its much better than empty wall.
Good work.

Choppa Nutta
yeah it was like this huge empty cavern with big windows looking right into an empty box !
awful kit really, didn't fancy the faff of scratch for this one, I thought I would try and polish the turd another way 😄

as ACDC used to say "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" 😄
anyhow cheers guys ! 🙂

Clifford Keesler
That's what you call by "stuffing it" huh?

Choppa Nutta
all you can eat buffet ! 😄
all closed up now, just masking the windows

Clifford Keesler
Looks good. The Mig -29 is finally almost finished, there are some new pictures of it up,and before you say anything I know they suck, I did something to my camera and can't figure out what I did. I have tried taking it back to the default settings but that doesn't change anything.

Glenn
Lookin' Good Choppa, I need to stock up on more "Turd Polish" for all of the Mach 2 and Sharkit kits i have. Lucky i don't have many.

Burkhard D
Cool, I'll watch this😎

Clifford Keesler
Looking very good Choppa.

Christian Bruer
Missed this so far, wow, nice work on the interior. A good idea to paint it and your painting was like the painting of an artist and makes it close to 3D. Very nice work Choppa!

Christian Ristits
Wow, great paintwork Choppa, looking forward to see more of it!

Edgars Bizūns
Looking good, post more ASAP 🙂

Soeren R.
The interior looks amazing Choppa 🙂

Choppa Nutta
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Thanks ever so much guys, hugely appreciated feedback, you are literally too kind 🙂
I'm just stuck on the shockingly poor fit of the canopy at the moment,
even the turd polish is gonna struggle with this one ! 😄

Gordon Sørensen
Interior looks great Choppa! The seam Lines on the fuselage were horrible on my kit. Still in the fill-sand-fill stage.

Choppa Nutta
Cheers Gordon, yeah me too, canopy fit is awful too...
if I do another I'll try the Academy one 🙂

The latest pic is the scheme I am going for but not quite so new looking 🙂

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

Clifford Keesler
Great job Choppa.

uncle chop chop
Good job i had this kit but i got the shits up, looks like u can polish a turd well done

Roberto Rocat
Not an easy task...you're doing a very good work 👍

Choppa Nutta
Cheers chaps !! 👍 🙂

John E
Yep, this is going to be a nice one. 🙂

Matthew A
an expensive piggy bank

Greg Baker
Oh, sign me up for this one!

Choppa Nutta
Haha not really, cheap Airfix kit and 16 pence !! 😄 😄 😄
Cheers for the encouragement chaps,
another kit I need to rescue from the dust of the unfinished kits 🙂