Almost there

As part of an off season maintenance programme the propellors of airworthy Catalina 'Miss Pick Up' were sent away for refurb as I saw at Duxford back in March. The work has taken longer than expected but within the last few days the props have been put back where they belong. Engine tests are expected this week with flight testing shortly after

Martin Baltimore

This is a 1/72 scale Novo kit which was a re-release of an old Frog kit that originally dates back to the early 1960s. This kit itself was probably 40 or so years old was missing instructions, had loads of flash, plenty of ejector marks and poor transparencies. The interior detail was a short section of floor and a couple of grotty seats so I fabricated something a little better and cleaned up the perspex sections. It needed a bit of filler here and there and some sanding down but didn't come out too bad. The decals were mainly from the spares box although I salvaged the squadron markings.