Consolidated Catalina PBY-5A CFS2

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Description: The amphibious version of the Consolidated Catalina, the PBY-5A. A WWII flying boat for CFS2

Shessi

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At last :a1310:

What took you so long?

In all seriousness, this is an awesome reworking of the Alphasim FS9 bird, so thank you. :ernaehrung004:
 
Cheers Folks,
Down to Alphasim firstly!

I've always liked the ol' Cat a lot, so it's been a pleasure to do all the versions, and there's more to come......

Ok, so this won't be great for every use in CFS2, as even though I put LOD's in, it is a little heavy on FR's. If you keep it down to a few together then ok, but best really for player ac or single missions etc, and as they weren't used in large flights anyway that's not a huge prob.

Ha ha UT, as the white rabbit said, so little time, so much to do.....Multiple projects on the go and I easily get side tracked by new ones. What also doesn't help are clever b&st%rds who make great new stuff to try out! :a1310:

For your info, this is the basic early 5A, which had the wing internal mounting points for the ordinance, so that's why there are no modelled bomb mounts. I used a basic DP, so if you or others decide to upgrade then good. Next will be the mainly used model which had yaggi radar fitted. I did note your request for modelled torpedo rack(s) etc to help with DP's, so I intend to do a Black Cat version at some stage.

G,
Good to see you here!

Cheers

Shessi
 
Thank You:encouragement:
The old Alpha bird looks great!

Here's an info pack for the PBY that I had posted
for a PBY project on another FS site:
 

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Hi Shessi
Lovely work as usual:applause::applause::applause:
I did a couple of mission for the PBY's at Midway many years ago.
An initial contact with a Betty, which did not work too well.
I did the night torpedo attack on the transports, which was OK.
I might redo this one and see how it goes.
Cheers
Stuart
 
May want to go and detach/un-weld the tris/faces that make up the underside of the rudder. The way the smoothing is being applied is looks wrong since it making a dark shadow.
 
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Shessi,

Outstanding job on this, it's great to have a full set of Catalinas for CFS2! :santahat:
 
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