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  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Looking for a PT-23
Posted by mississippivol on Saturday, May 21, 2016 7:06 AM

My Internet search has come up empty. Is anyone aware of a kit of the PT-23 trainer?

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    January 2007
Posted by PaulBoyer on Monday, May 23, 2016 9:11 AM

MPM/Special Hobby has made a 1/72 PT-19, so we're close. You'd have to modify the kit as the PT-19 had an in-line Ranger engine, and the PT-23 had a radial Continental R-670. So a little "modeling" will be needed to get you there. If you have a spare old 1/72 Revell Stearman, that has the Continental engine, although it's not very good.

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Posted by mississippivol on Monday, May 23, 2016 8:02 PM

Thank you, sir. Sounds like the way to go.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: Twin Cities of Minnesota
Posted by Don Stauffer on Tuesday, May 24, 2016 8:30 AM

PaulBoyer

MPM/Special Hobby has made a 1/72 PT-19, so we're close. You'd have to modify the kit as the PT-19 had an in-line Ranger engine, and the PT-23 had a radial Continental R-670. So a little "modeling" will be needed to get you there. If you have a spare old 1/72 Revell Stearman, that has the Continental engine, although it's not very good.

 

I think that Engines and Things has a resin 670 in their line.

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Northern California
Posted by jeaton01 on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 9:07 PM

Planet Models makes a PT-19 and a PT-26 in 1/48 for a starting point in 1/48, in resin.  I have both and they are very nice.

John

To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

 

  • Member since
    November 2003
  • From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Posted by mississippivol on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 9:16 PM
Thanks for the heads up! I would like to build it in 48th, but it's going alongside five other a/c in 72nd and 144th as a collection of military aircraft that operated in the area around Memphis, TN. This particular plane was photographed at the base in Union City, TN.
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