The 2006 Patrol Torpedo Boat group build

cthulhu77 wrote:

So far:      Cthulhu 77 w/ postwar s-boot, whatif PT boat, Pt-815 missile/torpedo boat      Hippy-Ed  w/ Revell 1/72 PT-109      Chek6       Weebles       Schoonerbumm      Mavrik      Al Gunthwaite      BCS   w/ 1/72 Tamiya Perkasa      Michel.vrtg w/ Revell PT-117      Possibles:      FrogFoot w/ Revell s-Boot       mkhoot               if you are interested , post your name on, and get ready for the build!

roadkill_275 wrote:

You can tentively put me down for this although I won't be able to start anything until July or August. Gotta house to set up and moved into. It'll probably be the R-M PT-109 in 1/72 but I won't be doing it as the 109.

tho9900 wrote:

EPinninger - the thing about the S-boots is there are several interesting color chemes you can choose from.  The Baltics S-boots had some very interesting disruptive camo on some of them, I'll dig up the refs someone sent me and post them here.  Also there is the opportunity to do a very specific S-boot that carried a 40mm Bofors on the rear deck sintead of the 20, it looked almost out of place it was so comparitively large!  Revell is also coming out with a new release of the S-boot with a quad 20mm mount on the back.

  Yep, especially since all of mine are oddballs...another S-100 would be great !

                  Welcome aboard !

I understand that the 1/35 scale kit is a 80' Elco.

I have on order (from Hannants in the UK) a 1/72 Italian MAS PT boat from Italeri which I believe will be release mid-May.

Al

Al Gunthwaite wrote:

cthulhu77 wrote:  Airifx makes a neat little MTB that would suit you...                         greg   I was thinking of something much more ambitious in view of the fact that practically all the information one could ever wish for is in Mr Ross and Mr Lambert's books.  My options the easiest first: Airfix Vosper; Revell Vosper; Converstion of the Airfix Rescue Launch to Motor Gun Boat; and Scratchbuild... The heart says scratchbuild but the head says Airfix Vosper: I need to think this through over the weekend.

Ok thinking process over:

Plan A: I shall attempt to scratchbuild a a "Dog Boat", Fairmile 'D' Class Boat.  

Whilst I don't get very much time for modelling I have a few days in the week beginning 15 May when I know I will be able to crack on with the work. So, the plan is to build the hull that week. If I don't complete the hull, the project will be aborted for Plan B -

Plan B: convert the Airfix RAF Rescue Launch to a British Power Boat MGB.

I have also decided that if I spent half the time that I think about modelling actually doing it I'd get a lot more done!

Incidentally is anyone sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for the Italieri MAS Boat to build?

Al

michel.vrtg wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote : The WEM PE set 7205 has 2 sheets of Brass & it will be fun to work with them Good, I ordered mine today. Any idea about the painting scheme for PT-117? what is the good green ? Michel

PT-117 was destroyed by Jap aircraft at Rendova Harbor Aug 1,1943(?) (date shown as: 1.8.43)

as for the colors, I'd think it's the same as 109. Others may know more.

Hippy-Ed wrote :

The WEM PE set 7205 has 2 sheets of Brass & it will be fun to work with them

Good, I ordered mine today.

Any idea about the painting scheme for PT-117? what is the good green ?

Michel

Mavrik wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: I'm planning the PT-109 at the time of her loss But, the WEM sets can be used for the other PT Boats of the Elco 80' footers. (WEM set PE 7205: 1/72 PT-109 for the Revell kit) The WEM ser PE 7216: 1/72 37mm US Army Anti-tank gun (is white metal with  Photo-etched brass parts)  I'll be painting it in Tropical Green (US-29) overall & the lower hull Norfolk 65A antifouling red (US-14)  which I also ordered from http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/ Great. It would be very interesting to see all this stuff in one model, because I also have PT-117 by Revell AG.

mkhoot wrote:

I would be interested in joining in. I'm going to build the Airfix 1/72 Vosper MTB.

Hippy-Ed wrote:

I'm planning the PT-109 at the time of her loss But, the WEM sets can be used for the other PT Boats of the Elco 80' footers. (WEM set PE 7205: 1/72 PT-109 for the Revell kit) The WEM ser PE 7216: 1/72 37mm US Army Anti-tank gun (is white metal with  Photo-etched brass parts)  I'll be painting it in Tropical Green (US-29) overall & the lower hull Norfolk 65A antifouling red (US-14)  which I also ordered from http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/

Great. It would be very interesting to see all this stuff in one model, because I also have PT-117 by Revell AG.

Mavrik wrote:

Hippy-Ed wrote: aboard (& to the forums) Mavrik Thank you, Hippy-Ed  Hippy-Ed wrote: Here's what I have lined up for the GB Revell's 1/72 PT-109 with WEM PE set including the 37mm canon on the bow Are you going to build exactly PT-109 or other Elco PT?

I'm planning the PT-109 at the time of her loss But, the WEM sets can be used for the other PT Boats of the Elco 80' footers. (WEM set PE 7205: 1/72 PT-109 for the Revell kit) The WEM ser PE 7216: 1/72 37mm US Army Anti-tank gun (is white metal with  Photo-etched brass parts)  I'll be painting it in Tropical Green (US-29) overall & the lower hull Norfolk 65A antifouling red (US-14)  which I also ordered from http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/

Hmmmm.... I am really busy, but I must join this GB or I'll never build my Revell PT 117 model.

I start to look for some aftermarket parts, and I already ask a question : the boxart shows the model in green uppersurface/blue-grey below waterline tones, though the instructions ask to paint the model in grey uppersurface / red below waterline.  What is the good painting scheme?

Michel

cthulhu77 wrote:

Airifx makes a neat little MTB that would suit you...                         greg

I was thinking of something much more ambitious in view of the fact that practically all the information one could ever wish for is in Mr Ross and Mr Lambert's books. 

My options the easiest first:

Airfix Vosper;

Revell Vosper;

Converstion of the Airfix Rescue Launch to Motor Gun Boat; and

Scratchbuild...

The heart says scratchbuild but the head says Airfix Vosper: I need to think this through over the weekend.

All right then.  I have a 1/72 scale Tamiya Perkasa that I have had on the shelf for a number of years.  I was not going to build it for a while but for this I guess I will move it up the queue.  It is is a little more modern than some of the others being suggested but it ought to fit in well enough.  Count me in.

Bruce