Hi all,

Here are a few pics of my ongoing PT boat build. I plan on doing a boat tied up to a dock with the crew loading supplied and prepping the boat to get underway. The boat sat on my shelf for the better part of a year while I figured out what to do with it. There's a lot of dust that needs to be removed. Also, plenty of weathering and detail painting to do.

Here's an overall shot of the boat and the first rev of the dock.

The after deck house


The wheel house


The torpedoes and weapons





Lastly, here's a pic of a DML Marine figure that I'm modifying to represent a Sailor. I'm playing with shades of blue and gray to get the colors matched for a faded Chambray shift and dungaree pants. I spent 20 years in the US Navy, ya think this would be easy!



Any comments, critiques or suggestions are gratefully accepted and encouraged.

Steve

Looking good so far Steve!

Gator

hello Steve,
looks good to me.only one thing stands out,the dock maybe more sun faded and worned
out.but thats is for you to decide.i am doing a PT 109 for a group build and i hope it looks as good as yours.
cheers,
Bruce

Hi Bruce.

Thanks for the positive comments. I hear ya on the sun-faded dock. Working on that now. I'm trying different combinations of oil washes to simulate the faded color of pine. I would imagine, in the South Pacific, the wood would be bleached by the sun.

Steve

Looking good so far. For fading wood, mix some vinegar and steel wool together, let it set over night and then brush it on the wood areas. It'll fade/bleach it out. "Q"

Crew? Just been announced by Italeri...

http://data4.primeportal.net/models/thomas_voigt2/italeri/images/italeri_08_of_23.jpg

http://data4.primeportal.net/models/thomas_voigt2/italeri/images/italeri_09_of_23.jpg

Hi Steve

Looking very promising
It will be nice to see another Elco featured here
Please keep up the good work and keep is posted on your progresses...

Skipper

Looking good, Mr Kubik!
I like the dock idea, mate, surely will be an interesting scene...please keep us posted as you progress with the build, Steve........

Hi Jim,

Thanks for those links. I've heard about Italeri releasing a PT Boat crew, but those are the first pics I've seen of them. I'll have to get them and see if I can adapt them to my setting.

Steve

matthew,

Thanks for that tip. I'll definitely have to try it out.

Steve

Mark,

Thanks for the comments. Rev 1 of the dock is much longer, almost the length of the boat now.

Have you seen Mike Benolkin's PT build? Here's the link
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/builds/it/build_it_5602.shtml


He also has a dio in progress as well.
http://www.cybermodeler.com/hobby/builds/custom/build_pier.shtml

I adapted his scene for my build, but I'm not using an L shaped dock.

Steve

Looking very good. nice job. Isn't this a great kit?
My build: PT 495

Steve,
Very nice looking.

The guns look very nice as to the torps.

Hi Ed,

Love the kit. I had been planning on scratchbuilding a PT Boat for years. When Italeri announced theirs, I was ECSTATIC!

Great build. I saw pics of this somewhere else and I had a question. Where did you get the extra 20mm Oerlikons?
Steve

Thanks Jim. I appreciate the comments. Still got lots of detail painting to do on the torps and guns.

Steve

Steve, good looking ship so far, looking forward to the rest! nice details, crisp construction... every time I see the great PT boats being showcased here, I go and hide mine.. Great job, thanks for sharing!

Thanks. I made molds and cast them and the mounts. I had never done that before but after a couple of tries it came out OK. I also cast the extra 20mm ammo cans, 20mm Ready Service lockers and second smoke canister (a crewman of the 495 told me they carried 2 on this particular boat).

Hi Ed,

Yup, I figured you cast them yourself. I was hoping to hear that you bought them from somewhere. I'm attempting to cast my own 40mm ammo cans, but the first try didn't come out so well. I need about 10-15 of these cans for my dock scene and casting is the only option. I'll get it right soon, I"m sure.

Steve

Hi Steve,

Nie work so far, grand idea.

Al

A dock update for my PT Boat Dio. Here's an overall shot of the dock. I painted the base underneath the dock raw umber and the exposed portion Olive green.



And here's an up close of the dock halfway through the planking process.



The 'white" planks are going to look brand new because I'd like to portray them as repaired areas. The remaining ones are going to be faded and treated to look sun bleached.

Thanks for looking and all comments are welcome.

Steve

Hi Steve,

Nice work. I don't know if they woudl be of any use to you but Italeir have a set of figures coming out for the ELCO Boat. There are some good ones around in resin too.

Look forward to seeing more.

Al

Hi Alan,

Thanks for the comments. Unfortunately, the PT Crew announced by Italeri won't work in the scene that I"m doing. The pics I've seen of the crew have thier life jackets on and posed as if they were at thier battle stations. My crew needs to be working on loading the boat and readying their weapons prior to a patrol.

Steve

Did you see Shaun's (Muddyfields) PT Dio? He put together a crew that looks really good. maybe he can point you in the right direction.
Ed

Looking very good Steve!

later...Gator

Hi Steve,

Either MiniArt or MB make a couple of German Tank maintenance crews which would convert fairly easily to sailors as they have trousers and shirts. I used some for my coal crane as civilians and a couple as RN sailors. They wouldm probably have the sort of poses you're looking for.

Cheers

Al