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Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, plotted pen to paper, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 × 17 in. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink, one pass at a time. On the back, a serial number and date, plotted in UV ink in the same pass as the drawing.
The plan of the Catalina exists as a file, everywhere. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy someone can point to and say who drew it, where, on what day, and under what serial number.
The Consolidated PBY Catalina could land on open ocean, and the 5A variant shown here added retractable landing gear so it could taxi up a ramp onto dry land as well, first flying in that amphibious form in November 1939. Slow and unglamorous at 179 mph, it more than made up for it in endurance, patrolling over 2,500 miles on a single tank — range that let Catalinas spot the Japanese fleet before Midway and hunt German U-boats across the Atlantic. 3,305 Catalinas of all variants were built, making it the most-produced flying boat of the Second World War. This blueprint captures the PBY-5A's twin overhead engines and gull wing, mounted high to keep the propellers clear of ocean spray.
At a Glance
- ◆104-foot wingspan
- ◆35,420 lb gross weight
- ◆First flew (amphibious) Nov. 1939
- ◆3,305 built, all variants
- ◆Range of over 2,500 miles
- ◆Most-produced Allied flying boat
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PLOT TIME: ~1–1.5 h of machine drawing time
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does, what a person does
The robot
- ◆runs the file
- ◆draws
- ◆lays down ink
- ◆repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆picks the aircraft
- ◆designs the linework
- ◆decides which lines disappear
- ◆sets pressure, speed, pen height
- ◆watches the hours
- ◆signs, numbers, packs
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“A flying boat's hull has to do a plane's job and a ship's job at once — drawing the step in the fuselage where it planes across the water is the one line in this piece that has nothing to do with flight at all.”
Open production, no duplicates
Every Catalina piece is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down differently each pass, ink density shifts, and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.
PERFECTLY imperfect.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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