Very nice Jam!

Are you going to paint the Cat camoflage or is it white for a reason?

Not a criticism but if the PBY was scrapped, the first items to be removed before scrapping would be the engines for use elsewhere. Pratt & Whitney's 1,200 hp R-1830-S1C3-G were used on many other aircraft and would have been in high demand.

You are on a roll this week! Every time I log on there is a new update!

That weathering looks very effective - especially the peeling paint.

Hi,

Very nice Jam, very realistic! It isn't going to be flying anywhere very soon!

Simon

The only minor criticism I would make is that an abandoned aircraft wouldn't have pumped up tyres, is there some way you can represent flat tyres? Other than that it looks very good.

Jam, try a search via Google... I was sure that some RAF machines were white uppers now - the one operated by Plane Sailing today is white oveall like yours. I think you need to add the glazing, or some for of plastic parts to represent the window frames and those of the blisters at the back... Adding to Kevin's comment, can you collapse one of the gear mechanisms, as they would have dropped if the downlock failed and the hydraulics couldn't hold it.

Nice weathering effect though

Jam - for the deflated tyres you could:

Use a file to flatten the bottom of the tyres off or use a clothes iron to flatten them - need to be quick but it gives a bit of a bulge too. I've done this on several aeroplane models.

Worth a try?

Have you seen this before? There's a really interesting backstory and plenty of inspiration there;

http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/07/abandoned-catalina-seaplane-50-years.html

I've got an airfix Catalina up in the loft that I built many years ago that's now in a bit of a sorry state, one day I might have a go at something like this. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Just had a look at some colour pictures of various Coastal Command aircraft taken during WW2. Upper surfaces (as seen in plan view) were either in a grey/green (Temperate Waters) camouflage pattern, or in plain grey- some aircraft did seem to just be all-over white.

I've visited a few aircraft graveyards over the years- St Athan used to break V-bombers, and we used to park in their shadow for BoB Day displays. The undercarriages on these were kept relatively tidy, to facilitate moving the machines for cannibalisation. These days, Manston, near us, breaks Jumbos. In all cases, engines are removed fairly quickly- at Manston, some of the locals helped themselves to a couple.

Cockpits would normally be tarp'ed over until anything worth having had been removed.

Resist the temptation to have 'rust' patches- not much ferrous metal in aircraft. What you might well get is a lot of mould/lichen build up over time.

Seconded on the rust- All surfaces on the outside are aluminium usuallly. There are some good derelict aircraft pics on the web. Like the general abuse, whilst you have the dremmel out you could remove some of the access panels on the outside to represent more parts scrounging. I think this will fit in really well when it's done.