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I would have to say that the mystery lurker(known to a select few)has what he says.The guy has been around forever and has some absolutely mind blowing "goodies".

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I checked out the rest of the photos of your diorama. Wow!. Excellent work, very realistic.

Mac

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Being that now Two B-17 gurus, confirms my suspicious idea on who the lurker is and I've marveled at some of his other trinkets and has helped me out immensely on another project at one time.

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Excellent. Thanks for sharing. In some ways, I'm most impressed with the detail of the dock alongside the ship (because that's almost certainly not a kit!)

Thanks TBDude!

I scratch built the pontoon barge that the PBM is on. It is now a kit, however. I've made resin copies of this barge and others and sell them at Back-Aft Models http://shop.back-aft.com/1-350-WWII-Pontoon-Barge-Sets_c6.htm

I hope that no one minds the plug of Back-Aft Models. I specialize in AVP seaplane tender resin model conversion sets.







How I built the USS Duxbury Bay and PBM on the barge diorama is posted at Modelwarships.com .....

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/Carl-Musselman/user-index.html

good lord that is amazing work!

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Thank you so, much, DaveG!

This diorama was inspired by this photo...........



..........just like the Honolulu Clipper and USS San Pablo diorama that I have planned will be inspired by the photos posted, previously.

My father served on the USS Duxbury Bay AVP-38 in 1952-53. This is what has sparked my obsession with the USS Barnegat AVP-10 class of small seaplane tenders.

so where do you get those really big quarters that you have in those pictures?

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You mean the huge quarters that can even float? Shhhh! Its a secret!

Magnificent work! Have you ever built a larger diorama with the Revell Mariner kit? Not to mention what you could do with the Airfix Boeing Clipper...

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Thank you, Chris.

The Revell PMB Mariner is an odd, "box scale" and parts for a scratch built ship to accompany it would be hard to come by and match up.

However, I've been tempted (in my imagination only) by the new MINICRAFT 1/72 scale PBM-5A kit (hopefully a PBM-3 or PBM-5 will be released, as well) and scratch build the stern of an AVP small seaplane tender, and not the whole ship, with the PBM refueling astern.

In 1/72 scale, an AVP seaplane tender would be over 4 feet long. WOW!

Ditto

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Here is the 1/350 scale resin model kit of the Clipper by Iron Shipwrights, Inc.



While we're talking about model flying boats, here is a 1/350 PBM-5 that I did. I actually dismantled this water diorama and used this PBM in my USS Duxbury Bay diorama. A bit of a shame, but it saved me a lot of work.

How do you make that spray? It looks so real!

I use lint from the clothes dryer. Straight cotton balls or batting doesn't look as realistic, to me. But, it is really hard to get white, not gray, lint out of the clothes dryer. It takes quite a few cycle of something white to eliminate the gray from the lint trap. And even then, you have to pick some fibers out of the lint with a tweezers and magnifier.