PBM Mariner

[Glenn]

Ok, it's a model, but what I'd like you to tell me is,
1. what model (company)
2. what scale?

[Captain Canada]

144th scale

Monogram

 

[Glenn]

Toad,
   I didn't know Monogram made a model of a PBM? A PBY-5, yes, (back in the late '50's~early '60's) but no, it's not Monogram and not 1/144th.

[Ollie]

Hasegawa 1/72?

 

[Captain Canada]

I didn't think Monogram made that kit either......i was just guessing !

Okay then, 72nd scale, MPM ?

 

[Ollie]

Not MPM Toad.  Hase has one in 1/72.

[Geoff_B]

Mach-2 Martin Mariner in 1/72, the Hasegawa kit is the Marlin Ollie B)  

[Captain Canada]

Yeah, Mach-2, not MPM.....that's what I was gonna say !

I remember reading a nightmare build review on that one..........

 

[Ollie]

Oh, sorry Thorvic!

I bow down in front of the kit expert!

       

[Glenn]

In the '90's, when Revell were bringing out some of their 'old' kits, one that was 'a must' was the USS Pine Island, a seaplane tender. Built at the end of WW2, and was responsible for mapping most of the Antarctic in the late 1940's.

The PBM Mariner is from that model ship, and scaled at 1/426th. In other words, the PBM fits into my open hand.
It had 12 parts and a full set of decals, (almost exact to the 1/110.6sc PBM) that I also have.

[Captain Canada]

The PBM Mariner is from that model ship, and scaled at 1/426th.

Wow, that's too cool, Lyn.

Can you sink it into a wee vat of RTV and make a few copies ?

 

[Glenn]

As I said, 'it's just a handfull'!

[Captain Canada]

The pilot must've mistook all them wrinkles for waves...and landed !

Tee hee !

But seriously, that is a wee model !

Cheers !

 

[nev]

Good grief!  That model at the top looks so good, yet its so wee!  :ar: