Hello Crew,

Here is the latest naval project from Ed Sarao (liberator).
Enjoy another great built of the Italeri 1/35 PT-Boat.

Rui

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

I was just casually browsing around when i "accidently" bumped into PT-596. WOW! Amazing weathering and presentation. Ed, you really have a nice creation there.

Regards
Steve

I really like this presentation. The movement and interaction of the crew particularly got my attention. It very much has the appearance of being under way. Excellent work.

This is propably the nicest PT boat I have seen yet - very good work on both the boat and crew.

We could use soem closeups of the midship area ?

Cheers/Jan

Stunning work only hope I can get mine to look half as good as this one.Will be using these photos as a lot of referance material thanks for sharing your great work

Very well done! The figures are really good, too!

thanks guys..i really appreciated all the nice words. it was fun building the boat and converting some figures. finally italeri's PT boat crew was out so i revised the whole set up. combined the hand picked crew and adding more details. while waiting...i did some other projects took me almost a year to finished the boat. thanks again. ed

Fantastic job -- one of the nicest versions of this kit I've seen yet. Mind if I ask two questions?

1. Do you have close up pictures of the cockpit/helm?
2. Can you share with us what you used for figures? They look like an assortment

Thanks for sharing.

Brian

VERY NICE model.

Garth

Like everyone has said, great stuff! The figures are lively, and I especially like the helmet and clothing gear piled on deck. Very complete project, very nice!

Great job, ditto on the figures... love the composition! thanks for sharing

hi and thanks again guys. the assortment of figures used in the project are extras from academy, dragon, italeri and some from tamiya. some were fitted with resin heads and dragon figure heads from spare box. mixed and scratchbuild their arms..some repositioned. the hardest to make was the jackets made of milliputty. all helmets are from tamiya and should be used only on few selected heads. mostly dragon figures have narrow top. while the italeri's had to be shaped to fit the helmets.





the crew wearing shorts was a kubelwagen driver. i curved the cap from his original german cap. while the one up front..was from the FAMO crew. replaced with resin head.



the figures manning the helm are from tamiya's FAMO..with resin heads.



thanks again for your nice words and comments. ed

hi guys...more pictures...enjoy viewing.









thanks again. ed

Hi Ed,

Excellent stuff, I really like what you've done with this one.

Al

thanks alan. building the crew was fun. i'm building a german boat right now. hopefully i can post pictures in a few weeks. thanks again. ed

Your hard work has paid off! It's really is lively. I love to hear about being clever and mixing and customising. The milliput worked well (it and competitors = great stuff). You should be very pleased, it's so enjoyable to look at and see all the details. It has life in action and detail!

hi and thanks wink, i have a thread somewhere in the fleet maneuver section. detailing how i picked up crew from sparebox of assorment figures. the figures manning the bofors..were tamiya humvee drivers..the two standing were from academy. gunner at the rear was from tamiya panther and the officers at the helm were...famo crew with resin heads. up front observing the anti aircraft gunners were from famo and the one was driver from kubelwagen. reshaped their head gears and added shoulder rank straps. the rest..i added italeri's PT boat crew with dragon heads from spare box. repositioned their heads and used tamiya helmet. i also beefed up their jackets with putty. stuffs piled up on the deck were extras from different models. again the jackets were made of milliput. shell casings made from copper wire. and dusting the whole boat with tamiya weathering kit. thanks for the kind words..very much appreciated. ed