michael151722
touch up the flag and maybe add more soldiers to the boat but don't know where to get them tho
Tamiya did a thing whic hannoys me.
They moulded the reverser gates down on the jet nozzles.
They shoul look like this:
As depicted the boat is going in reverse.
If you can, put a fine nylon sewing thread through the fold in the flag and use a touch of PVA glue to get it closed. Tie the thread off at the top of the staff and at the bottom.
Tamiya was a bit "lazy" there, that's a #6 National Ensign, and the PBRs were issued #7 size (circa 70 x 130cm and not the 60x150 size the kit gives you).
That Mermite chow can was actually "ammo can" green:
Also, US (and US Navy) practice does not paint diesel containers red. (At the end of the PRB era, mid 80s, plastic diesel jerry cans were in blue--in the rare times the plastic ones were issued.)
Now, the full crew of a PBR is just the 4 (5 on the the boat the SubRon officer was aboard). Only time you'd have more aboard was to "taxi" people, like SEALs, around.
Small Point of order, the boats, at speed, were bouncy beasts--everything aboard was lashed down or secured in some way. Putting something on the gunwales was a good way to lose it overboard. Covers on the guns were also common, as there's a bit of spray while underway.
The use of tires or inner tubes is really only appropriate for the Game Warden river interdiction roles, where the boats were doing Stop & Search on sampans and river traffic. Discarded tires were far more common than innter tubes, whic hwer liabl eto puncture. After 1972, stock boat fenders were used.