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PT boat Figurines-need your advise

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PT boat Figurines-need your advise
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 8, 2004 8:10 PM
Greetings everyone, Ive searched the entire web I think looking for 1/20 scale US Navy sailors,Sailors in general are hard to find although I justed posted some sites that will help others,found them during my searches. I need some advice(dont we all from time to time) the boats 1/20 do you think either 1/24 scale or 1/18 figurines would look best??????????? found some in both scales ,problem here 1/24 guys would be roughly 5 foot tall in scale,1/18 guys would be roughly 6 foot 5..........................opinions............thanks Alan
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Posted by shermanfreak on Monday, March 8, 2004 10:40 PM
Hey Alan .... I would tend to think that the 1/18 figures would be your best bet. It's closest to the sacle that you want.
Just say your PT Boat was crewed by a hearty bunch of 6 footers. Approve [^]Approve [^]
Happy Modelling and God Bless Robert
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Posted by philp on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 4:35 PM
Take the 1/18 figs and do a little surgery, above and below knees and elbows. Won't take much to get them down to 5'10".
Also, I think Tamiya made (makes?) some race car pit crew figs in 1/20. Would take a little work on uniforms but adding some life jackets would probably hide a lot.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 12, 2004 8:27 PM
thanks for your input guys,would really like to have some more,I feel most boats cars,planes etc need great figurines to "bring them to life" and its also a model with in a model
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, March 27, 2004 2:17 PM
Big Smile [:D] Im going to use a combination of modified 1/18 figurines,some new 1/20 scale tamiya pit crew figurines and maybe some from scatch(hope they dont look like something from Dawn OF THE DEAD) and will post some pics as Iget along............
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Posted by philp on Sunday, March 28, 2004 1:06 PM
Post some pics as you modify them. Would be interesting to see.
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