PT159 1/20 scale pictures

Thanks for all the solid replies fellas,When the pictures were taken I had not weathered the hull yet,An idea I was going to try was to use as a start oil based paint in a tub of water and weigh the boat to the water line for the first stains.From pictures of PTs Ive seen my boat is pretty clean compared to some.Boats base in Europe were pristine compare to Pacific based units.I agree the lauching tubes were pretty bad,if they failed to launch {quite common}with the air,the back up system used gunpower hence the flash. A few early boats did add the 40mm,it made them even worse tail draggers than they were.I assumed rust would be washed and settle in most seams,cracks etc,like Ive seen here in Flori-duh. on the work boats. Ed surface rust on pedestals was pretty common and did not effect the weapons usage. As far as the painting goes I never did learn to use an air brushso I painted the boat with spray paint from a can!!!!bought at Home Depot moss green. I mainly do aircraft and armor but did a PT as a tribute to them as my dad had to ditch a P39 off the New Guinea coast and was rescued by a  PT. Thanks again guys.PS the wood stand was a screw together that came with a update kit for the Elco PTs from Mosquito Boat Hobbies

While your addressing the weathering issues, the weathering for the deck & superstructure is inconsistent with the hull and under hull.   Your topsides are heavily weathered while the hull is pristine.  

If you are going to totally clean the topsides - the hull is okay as it is

If you are going to add lighter drybrush effects (water drips carrying salt down) to the deck & superstructure as was recommended, consider carring the drybrushing on to the hull.

The 20mm gun pedestals also should not be rusty, even in the hooligan navy.  These were the boat's protection and the crew would not allow them to get rusty.  Slap some grease on them (weather with gray paint - not brown!).

Alan

You did a very good job on the boat and crew. If I may offer some suggestions, since the boat was originally built out of plywood, I would eliminate the rust stains on the deck and wheel and chart houses. I would also cut some back on the steel tubes. You can add some fading to the paint by drybrushing a lighter shade of your topcoat in a downward motion to resemble drips and weather effects. I believe the 40mm on the stern would have added too much weight to the original boat with the addition of the tubes, that is why the steel tubes were replaced by the MKXIII racks by mid 1943. The reason for replacing the tubes was to lighten the boat to increase speed, to have a more reliable launching platform (Specially when the powder charge that expelled the torpedo would give away the boat's position in the dark as a bright flash) and the use of the more reliable MKXIII torpedo. I also like the wood stand.

There's a little too much rust on the model.  The PT's were double planked mahogany, with plywood used in the cabins.  You have way too much rust at the seam between the cabin and deck.  Boats with the steel torpedo tubes did not carry a 40 mm gun aft; the 40 mm was installed when the boats were converted to the roll off torpedo racks.   

Thanks Ed, Im working on doing something for Garths site, hurricane Wilma hit my City pretty  good last year but I did excuse the the pun salavage some additional pictures of the boat during its building stages including correcting the Dumas hull error.Should have it soon for him. Thanks again.

Alan, not too shabby for the first time of doing figures Gotta start somewheres & then one can only learn from the experience. I'm sure that you will do a fine job on re-doing them. Yes, adding crewmen aboard does indeed add to the life of the boat.
  Have you considered Garth's offer? I think it would be great if you were to do something on his site...

Thanks for looking at the pics,1st time I did figurines and Im now redoing some of the faces,but the crew does  bring life to the boat.Replies are most welcomed...........Thanks Alan

J-Hulk wrote:

The boat is absolutely stunning! Incredible! The figures are nice, but could use a shot of some sort of flat coating, and a bit of reworking of the eyes. They've all got "zombie eye" syndrome, with way too much white showing. Bo-yoing!!

If you were out on patrol day in & day out you'd have "zombie eye syndrome" too!!

Great build tho and having caught the eye of Garth, that in itself is a high compliment!! Go ahead & do up a write up & all for his site! 

I have built both the Lindberg and the Dumas kits for RC.  Yours by far is a very nice build.  I love the poses of the figures in the cockpit.

Scott

Thanks Brian,the figurines are coated in a flat clear,possible the shine may have been from the camera flash.It was my first attempt at figure painting and I wanted to bring some "life" to the boat.I do plan on doing a retouch on them

The boat is absolutely stunning! Incredible!

The figures are nice, but could use a shot of some sort of flat coating, and a bit of reworking of the eyes. They've all got "zombie eye" syndrome, with way too much white showing. Bo-yoing!!

Very nice build up Sir.  You should be very proud of your effort sir.  If you would want to do a write up on how you built it, I would be happy to have the write up and the photos posted on my www.ptboatworld.com website.  Email me at PTConsultingNHR@aol.com if you'd want to do this.

 

Garth