US Navy PACV

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havnt been able to stop thinking about this since Rick brought it up. so off i go with the PACV. i might even do the army version ACV. havnt been able to find much at all in the blueprint area but .....
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[rickstef]

http://warships.ru/MK/MK-34/sr-6.jpg

This is one of the better side, top shots i have found of the PACV

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thanks Rick. ive been using that one as a basis to get started. havnt settled on a scale yet but it will be at least 1/72. the shown skirt textures are not final.just threw them on to break the white monotony as i work.

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upon some advice ive settled on a 1/35 scale. still debating the ACV conversion.

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[cgutzmer]

very cool!

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doesnt look like i did much but put the roof on and started the interior.
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[Zathros]

Your threads have to be the most paradoxical threads in the forum. There's a title, then "Nothing" and you always have the coolest stuff! My brother wrote me a letter that came back virtually completely censored from Vietnam. When he came back he told me that he was in a marsh with some of his team and they came under heavy fire. The PAC V flew right over them to give them shelter while they climbed up the other side and were taken to safety. I had trouble understanding what he was talking about, it was 1969 and these things weren't in the news. If this comes out anything like your LCAC, you have another winner on your hands! :)

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thanks Zathros :) ! and now for a little more nothing.;)

put in the turret and made up some 50's

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[legion]

Will you be making the Royal Navy one as well?

[Plastic Bonsai]

There's a Hovercraft Museum near where I live Hovercraft Museum Charity Website (http://www.hovercraft-museum.org). It's not open to the public often but I think there is an SRN6 near the fence if you want some detail shots.

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thanks to my (insert expletive here) cable company i was left without complete services for the past 2.5 days. (tv,phone and internet.)

given the amount of time it takes me to design, i hesitate to commit to various incarnations of the PACV. i cant say when i get done if ill be burnt on the subject or not. i have other ideas i want to try.

so i managed to get the engine area, prop and rear cabin section completed.

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finished all the outside. all thats left is the .50 mounting and the interior.

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[Don Boose]

Looks very good!

Don

[cgutzmer]

awesome! thanks for sharing!

[jimkrauzlis]

Pretty damn cool...you've done superb work in creating this vessel!

Thanks for sharing this project with all of us!

Cheers!
Jim

[Texman]

That will be a nice addition to an oft neglected genre.

[NStarkel]

Looking great! :)

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been a long road of broken computer, lost data, and missing program registrations, and after a stern talking to about losing the registration codes, i think im in a position to restart. although i have to find a new paint program,(im considering gimp). i believe i will start with trying to finish this design.
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[NStarkel]

Welcome back! :)

[eagleclaw4935]

Great to see you back at it.Hope your technical problems are in the past.

[rickstef]

glad to see the Pac-v back on the drawing board

[Bionic Modeler]

I remember in the late 60's when the Navy first tested one of these things. There was a big hoopla about it. Then right there in front of all the media they took off for the water and it promptly sank. Very embarassing to say the least.

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just have to figure out the .50 mounts now.
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[willygoat]

That is awesome! Kinda looks like the G.I. Joe "Whale".

[jimkrauzlis]

Your designs are awesome!!

Can't wait to see how this one turns out when you start to do a beta build...

Cheers!!

Jim

[HMCS]

i got to ride in one (canadian coast guard version),.. when i was 9 years old,...it was very very cool

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i was 99% done with the unfold. woke up this morning, opened the file, and got this..................

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[willygoat]

Being as I know nothing about Pepakura, I'm guessing that's bad.

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yea. went from 20+ pages of completed work to 0.

[legion]

Did you use the reload 3d model option? That might cause that smattering of red lines. Shame about losing all that work, it happens to me too... Even worse is having to redo the entire 3d model because you forgot a crucial part or made a mistake.

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that was the first thing i did. didnt work. most of the red lines are parts that dont have joining sides.

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well my first build after an extremely long time.
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[rickstef]

Trent,

That looks absolutely amazing!

Great job

Rick

[herky]

There's a Hovercraft Museum near where I live Hovercraft Museum Charity Website (http://www.hovercraft-museum.org). It's not open to the public often but I think there is an SRN6 near the fence if you want some detail shots.

we used to ride the hovercraft from portsmouth over to isle of wight when we lived in uk:)

[willygoat]

That looks great! What an evil grin coming at the LZ.

[PhantomCruiser]

I had a buddy that passed away a while back who was in a PACV crew during Vietnam. He said when people, even other sailors would ask him what it was, the crew just normally said it was their UFO and left it at that. He had some pretty good stories, at least those he was willing to share.

[Don Boose]

Excellent work!

I must admit that I knew very little about the U.S. Navy air cushion patrol craft and had no idea that the Army operated them. Even though they were operating in Vietnam at the same time I was there, I never saw one or heard about them since I was on the coast of the Mekong Delta and the Army ACVs were being operated in the Plain of Reeds along the Cambodian border.

I'm glad to learn about these vessels and to see your outstanding model of the Quai Vat develop.

Don

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Thank you for the comments. I hope you can overlook the somewhat dubious build skills. Although i freely admit it is not the prettiest display of building, I am extremely happy with how it is coming together.
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[Don Boose]

Looks very good to my eye.

Don

[Tom Lapinski]

Your build looks pretty good to me also.

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a basic interior...

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[Don Boose]

Looks good!

Don

[rickstef]

George says it best for me
http://www.beyond-black-friday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/George-Takei-Oh-Myy-ebook-cover.jpg

[Revell-Fan]

well my first build after an extremely long time.
It seems that you haven't unlearned anything! :)

Great start, nothing, and even greater to see you back. I'm looking forward to the next updates! :)

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Thank you very much Revell-fan.

phase 1 of the roof... the more i look at it the more it strikes me how aesthetically pleasing this craft is.

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[eagleclaw4935]

Outstanding work.I would love to see this subject as a kit.

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more roof and starting engine area...

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[herky]

Outstanding work.I would love to see this subject as a kit.

likewise,very few hovercraft kits about

[willygoat]

It's really coming together nicely Trent. Can't wait to see more.

[elliott]

Glad to see you building again Trent. The craft looks really good, love the evil grin. Your build skills don't seem to have suffered at all. Did you build the figure that you're posing in your pics?

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Hope everyone had a good Christmas. I bought my Dad the Crysis game. It was a digital download, so that he would have something to open I built and wrapped paperreplika's figure.
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elliott- the figure is a platic tamiya. the pacv is 1/35 so i was using it as a scale reference.

only got a little more done.
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[Kevin WS]

Looking great!

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finally finished up the build. im pretty pleased with the results.
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[rickstef]

Trent,

That is simply perfect, you captured it beautifully

I can't wait to build it

Rick

[Don Boose]

Outstanding!

Don

[Texman]

Well done Trent!