Why did we set up the idea to build a Catalina PBY-5A at model scale? We had planning’s to build a Canadian Canadair CL 225 which was, at the first looking, a far more beautiful aircraft when we saw in an aircraft encyclopaedia the picture of a beautiful Cat! We both sad to each other: ‘This is not an aircraft, it’s a submarine!’

And when we looked further to other ‘watermodels’ the idea of building a Cat kept twisting in our heads. Suddenly Jesper sad: ‘Why don’t we build such a thing? It’s so ugly that it’s beautiful!’ And so we did.

When we look back we can say that we are building on the plane now for more or less eighty hours. That’s more than three complete days! We build when we like to build (always) and when we have enough money to spend on the Cat (never). It gives us a lot of fun and gives us a lot of insight in the modelmaking world, because it’s not an easy one. I am an amateur modelmaker and my experience goes no further back than one year. I would never begin at such a work by myself, because my knowledge is too small. We suggest not building a Cat when you’re (like me) to inexperienced in building modelmaked aircraft’s. If you still want to, ask a more experienced builder at your club or neighbourhood or you can contact somebody of the network site. He or she can help you with difficult parts and the risk of blowing the whole thing is less in stead of completing the Cat in your own.