PBY-5A Catalina
Scale: 1/48
Manufacturer: Revell
Parts used: Out Of The Box
Main paints used: AK Real Colors, Hataka
0:00 First up, we look at the kit and the build ahead. 1:27 To start, we put together the cockpit area and clean up the main fuselage. 14:29 Next, we put together the rear observation area. 19:24 Here, we move into the spray booth and paint the cockpit interior green. 24:26 With the green dry, we add a drop of white to the mix to fade the green for some post-shading. 28:30 Next, we move back to the bench and detail and weather the cockpit.
0:00 First up, we weather the cockpit with Metalizers and oils. 11:29 Next, we use UV glue to install the windows and test-fit the two halves together. 20:21 Now it's time to close up the two halves, we use contacta and tape for this. 27:58 Last up for now, we build the five-part wings.
0:00 First up, we fix a small problem. We have glued the tail wrong and need to open the seam and then reset it in the correct place. 14:17 Next, we fill and sand all the seams. 19:15 Here, we fix the hull, it has a gash in the plastic caused by the sprue tab tearing the plastic from the part. 22:25 Last up, we re-scribe and re-rivet the whole model as the original is very faint and won't show up well after priming and painting.
0:00 Here we mask up using the Eduard mask set XE118 on all the clear parts. 5:29 Next up, we paint the framework the interior green, so it shows through from the inside. 8:17 Then, we use UV clear to close the windows and then PVA glue to fix them in place. 15:24 We then repeat for the front cockpit class and use UV glue to fill a few small gaps. 31:11 We look at the masked model ready for paint.
0:00 Now it's time to start the painting work. First up, we black out the window frames and then put a coat of Aqueous primer on. 7:03 Here we move back to the bench to check how the model looks now with primer. We find a few small areas we need to take care of. Here we use UV glue as a filler and then sand it into place. 19:16 Next, we put on the insignia white, we use HATAKA C049. This is thinned 60% Thinners to 40% paint. 26:00 Next up, we lighten the paint with white and then make a mix of 80% thinner to 20% Paint. We lighten the centre of each panel to break up the paintwork.
0:00 To start, we use the tac worm method for the camo line from the white to the intermediate blue ( Hataka C027) and then mask up ready for paint. 10:58 With everything masked up, we put down a coat of Hataka C027 intermediate blue. Thinned around 60% with thinners. 16:30 Next, we fade the paint work with a mix of the blue with white and thinned to around 90% thinners. 24:30 Now it's back to the bench to unmask and see what we got. 30:14 Last up, we repeat the masking with the Tac worms for the Dark Blue areas on the top.
0:00 with the top side all masked, we put down a coat of the Hataka CC001 Dark Sea Blue. 7:43 Next, we add a few drops of the Intermediate Blue C027 we used before to lighten the dark blue, then thin it more to do more post-shading of the dark blue. 12:23 Now it's time to mask up the De-icing boots on the leading edge of the wing and paint rubber black with Tamiya XF-85. 16:44 Finally, it's time to bring the model to life with decalling.
