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This makes me happy
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Great, so the Swife Boat won't be a loner on your webstore, Murph.
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Swift Boat that is.
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Murph,
You have my attention. The "Mark V" is a one of the "New" Riverine navy boats perhaps you were thinking of the 80 Ft Nasty Boat Jim
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Never heard of the nasty boat. I'll have to see what i can find on it and add it to the list.
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Aaron,
Would you consider a PT boat from early WWII? Elco 77' PT boats -- particularly LT Bulkeley's PT-41-- were instrumental in evacuating MacArthur from the Philippines. AFAIK, no one has mass-produced a model of the 77-footers in any medium, any scale. Here's a link to a modeler who built himself one: https://matthewsmodelmarine.wordpres...e-expendables/ Just a thought.... Les (The Voice of Authority) |
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I didn't know PT boats came in different sizes. If I can find plans of a 77-footer, I might give it a try.
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Pablo Cicero (wire and paper) has been cranking out small-scale PT boats and other coastal forces boats like billyo, including the gunboat version of the early Elco 77-footers: http://www.papermodelers.com/forum/693135-post40.html
Based on a hasty read-through of his thread, I do not THINK Pablo has produced a model of the 77-foot Elco early-war PTs (PT-20-68: famous in part because General MacArthur and some of his staff were evacuated from the Philippines in Elco 77-footers). This is the thread: Narrow seas, archipelagos, and coastal operations Don |
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The best place to find references for these boats are in Navsource.org Motor Torpedo Boat Photo Archive Other valuable reference: PT Boat World - History and Modeling As Don mentioned, I did a number of generic boats in 1/200 (but build in 1/400) including some of the earlier 77' but with out the bomber type gun turret present in the early Elco boats (70' and early 77'). The first 77' I designed was a gunboat conversion: Narrow seas, archipelagos, and coastal operations You may find interesting references in the thread that many contributed. I hope this helps. |
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Welp, the pandemic strikes again. Due to lack of business, my day job has severely cut back my hours. I'm down to about 30 hrs a week, and holiday weekends now last all week. While having more time for modelling is a good thing, the bite out of my regular paycheck isn't. I'm gonna have to start trying to figure out how to beg for money again. I'm going to start a donation drive: if I can raise $400 by the end of the month (10 days), I'll offer up one of my new models as a freebie. Either the River Patrol Boat, a complete rework of the DH.100 Vampire, or another model as yet undetermined. As always, any help will be appreciated.
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