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Italeri: Crew Figures for PT-109
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Posted: Monday, October 06, 2014 - 05:31 AM UTC


Now, alongside the Vosper crew release, a crew for history's most famous US torpedo boat, the PT-109 (Italeri Kit No. 5613).

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Posted: Monday, October 06, 2014 - 08:35 AM UTC
IMHO, a very disappointing bunch of figures. The poses are uninteresting. The officers hats look way over-sized. Usable with some modification, maybe. Gotta wonder what the folks at Italeri were thinking. Al
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Posted: Monday, October 06, 2014 - 10:10 AM UTC
They look like kids wearing their father's uniforms.
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Posted: Monday, October 06, 2014 - 12:06 PM UTC
The baggy clothes look authentic to me but those hats - maybe they hired some former Bandai model makers used to 1/30th???
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Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 - 02:03 AM UTC
Maybe Hornet heads might help?
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Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 - 02:40 AM UTC
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse................
TAFFY3
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Posted: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 - 04:00 AM UTC

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Just when you thought things couldn't get worse................


They can, apparently their promised X-craft is a dead issue. Al
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