Wow, I feel bad for you having to fly off that black top runway! LOL Your PT is a beauty. I, like you, enjoy the 40-50 size models. I will make some changes to the build to be more scale, like the elevator shape for instance and try to keep this one closer to scale than the Katz plans actually have it, more so in the line of my Kingfisher. Will probably do the panel lines and some of the other details I didn't do on the Kingfisher though. I will be doing the corrugations of course as how can one build a Devastator without them. I know they will be somewhat of a challenge with this smaller size but will figure it out. Have some ideas on how to make them but if you have some please pass them on. Sometimes I wonder why I don't do more common stuff but then I realize I do like to have something different so it's worth it in the end.

At least the paint job should be fairly easy on this one with a mostly aluminum color other than the yellow chromate upper wing panels. Even the cockpit on this one gets the same aluminum color as they didn't paint the zinc chromate green until later in the production. While drawings show the telescopic sight for aiming the forward machine gun, the actual photos show no sight in place. No rear gun either. So it looks like a simple torpedo on the bottom with some nice white and red stripes on the nose will be most of the detail. Of course maybe make it drop off and power itself under water would be really cool.