1/72 Execuform PBM-3S

Gallery Article by Phil Marchese on Jan 10 2011

 

This build is a conversion of the Execuform PBM. The kit had the PBM-1 fuselage and tail surfaces with PBM-3C and PBM-5 turrets and engines.  The wings had too much chord which was reduced aft the second spar.  I added the scratch built -C3 conical tail gunner's position.  

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Once I got the kit to a PBM-3, I converted it to the interim configuration of the first six sub-chaser PBM-3S the USN modified.  Unlike the the later PBM-3S, the six exhibited more of their origin from the early PBM-3C in the 1942 scheme and armament.  This is presumably Bu No. 6535 and has had the insignia & unit markings revised; dorsal turret removed; and the camouflage modified for sub chasing along with the1943 blending measures.  

The markings and configuration were interpreted from two pictures .

Phil Marchese

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Photos and text © by Phil Marchese