PT-109

Guy's

You might want to check this out http://pt728.com/ found it on a fishing website.

Ed,

sorry, I did not answer you before.  I stop the building during some days, next step will be to scratchbuild some parts (horn, air vents,...)

You are right, fuel caps must be sanded too.

Michel

smokinguns3 wrote:

Oh hell know you aint gettin away with out any pics RUFF RUFF RUFF I want pics. My turn to be a porgress dog Ruff.

smokinguns3 wrote:

Wise guy you said you had one it just takes crappy pics.

Andy,

No.  PTs were not all one color.  Of course just before the war and just after the start of hostilities - yeah they were, in Ms.1 or that attractive scheme that you sometimes see photos of PT-103 and PT-117 in of the two Grays, but once they got into the field, they were camouflaged, often by the crews using locally acquired paints, applied by whatever methods the crews could have used ...

Garth

afulcher wrote:

Interesting that they selected the V-12's as the cars with the V-12's were discontinued after 1939. Was someone trying to liquidate inventory? Andy

they were avation eng. not the same as the car eng  and were super charged they were much bigger than the car eng.

i been to battle cove and i have seen the v-12 in a 34 packard

  In regards to the paint modifications from spec, the deviation was astounding.  Since the mosquito boats were basically considered to be a joke by most of the upper echelon, they didn't draw much in the way of supplies, and had to make do with what no one else wanted. No fifty cal ammunition? well, take off the fifties and put on BAR's or whatever you had floating around...lash some mortars you "borrowed" to the deck...hey, did you see those five gallon cans of aircraft paint on the loading dock? Hmmm...

   It is what makes these tough little boats so impressive. American ingenuity at it's finest.

PTConsultingNHR wrote:

BARs in the turrets?  I've heard of them having an Oerlikon 20mm in the turrets on a Mark 12 mount - can you verify that a boat had BARs in the turrets?

well the pt73 had booze in one of the torpedo tubes so the need bars in the turrets

cthulhu77 wrote:

Yeah, but the BARmaids were really ugly!

cthulhu77 wrote:

In regards to the paint modifications from spec, the deviation was astounding.  Since the mosquito boats were basically considered to be a joke by most of the upper echelon, they didn't draw much in the way of supplies, and had to make do with what no one else wanted. No fifty cal ammunition? well, take off the fifties and put on BAR's or whatever you had floating around...lash some mortars you "borrowed" to the deck...hey, did you see those five gallon cans of aircraft paint on the loading dock? Hmmm...    It is what makes these tough little boats so impressive. American ingenuity at it's finest.

are the D/Cs the same dia. as the Torp tubes?

Nope.  The standard 300 pound MK6 charge is 17.625" x 27.625".

Al Ross

PTConsultingNHR wrote:

Hippy Ed, Didn't that data I sent you help at all? Garth

Hippy-Ed wrote:

I came upon a sratchbuilt  D/C on steelnavy.com recently and the guy (name escapes me at the moment) used a 3/8' dia. tube to make the D/C  (Garth, he's a buddy of yours)

When you have a ratio like 1/72, that simply means that one unit of measurement (inches, feet, yards, millimeters, meters, etc.) on the model is equal to 72 of the same unit of measurement on the real thing.  In your example (torpedo), the unit of measurement of the real thing is inches (21" diameter ), so to figure the diameter of the torpedo on the model, divide 21" by 72, which is approximately .291".  Expressed as a fraction, this is just under 19/64". 

A 1/72 scale torpedo that was 5/8" (approximately .625") in diameter would equate to a 45" diameter real one.  Man, can you imagine the size of the hole that would make in the side of a ship... :-}.

Al Ross

alross2 wrote:

When you have a ratio like 1/72, that simply means that one unit of measurement (inches, feet, yards, millimeters, meters, etc.) on the model is equal to 72 of the same unit of measurement on the real thing.  In your example (torpedo), the unit of measurement of the real thing is inches (21" diameter ), so to figure the diameter of the torpedo on the model, divide 21" by 72, which is approximately .291".  Expressed as a fraction, this is just under 19/64".  A 1/72 scale torpedo that was 5/8" (approximately .625") in diameter would equate to a 45" diameter real one.  Man, can you imagine the size of the hole that would make in the side of a ship... :-}. Al Ross

Be patient, and we'll have them available later this year/early next year, complete with their own photoetch. We're doing USN Mk.14 torpedoes in conjunction with the Revell 1/72 Gato-class sub, and they'll be just fine for your 109-boat. In fact, you can pre-order them now.

Cheers,

John Snyder, White Ensign Models, http://WhiteEnsignModels.com