Time Travel.........

PT-212!  Had one.  Played with it till guns and props broken off. Floated nice in the tub but would gradually fill with water from the missing shafts.

My second favorite was a cereal box toy.

  Add some baking soda and watch it move!

Another "PT" boat. (perhaps the one you mentioned that had a rounded cabin front??):

I had a German sub as a bathtub toy too.  It would dive on it's own and had a plastic torpedo that was spring loaded. It had wheels for floor use and it could knock that small PT boat across the room with that torpedo.

Thanks Doc.  Always fun to remininse.

   Nino.

Hey! 

 I had that Baking Soda boat too! Although the photo shows a rounded cabin front the one I referred to had Ten small windows in the wheelhouse,

Had those baking soda boats too. Amazing the hours of fun you could have with the simplest toys and a little bit of imagination. 

Jim  

Oh Yeah !

FWIW, Atlantis models now has the molds for the old Revell PT-212 kit of the Higgins 78 foot PT boat.

The kit was originally slated for a Q32019 release, which later changed to a Q42019 release as part of a 3 kit set with a tank and a plane— but now I can’t find any mention of it on the website. I expect sooner or later we will see it rereleased. I understand Atlantis is doing a great job with these old kits- cleaning up the molds, including good decals, adding even new parts in some cases.

I have a trio of the old Revell kits in the stash. (My “someday” list includes a 1/96 RC USN PT boat tender.)

-Bill

Hi Bill;

      This one is on my list. I get it and I'll have at least one of every model type P.T. ever released in miniature form. I even have some weird looking ones from those old bagged Battling Navies Bagged toys. The only one I don't have in any form is a different version of the Lindberg-Air Force Rescue Boat, ( perfect for conversion to a dive support boat ).

    On that tender , Rots of ruck,!!