So I am having a crack at a Catalina, it was going to be either an 11SQN tub or QANTAS. Popular consensus over there led to me deciding on QANTAS.
Starting with the Academy 1/72 PBY-5A kit I will add the Red Roo PB2B-2 conversion.
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I would have preferred to start with a PBY-5 kit but the 5A is all that is around and easy to find these days in the LHS
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They come with locally added RAAF decals, though I will not be using them.
The Red Roo conversion includes the resin parts to make a wartime or civil PB2B-2 and the set I have includes decals for an 11SQN RAAF machine among others.
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Though since it also has the parts for a civil aircraft I will be building a QANTAS one!
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I could also do the 11SQN bird as I have another kit and conversion in the stash. I had picked the other kit up to do one of the Double Sunrise PBYs using the DK decals sheet.