If you like 1/35 PT Boats then here's one more to add to your collection Elcos, Vospers, Schnellboots and MAS boats. Announced for this November, a G-5 PT-Boat used during World War II by the Soviet Navy. It's been mentioned before in the forums here of how builders were hoping manufacturers like Italeri would add one to their catalog and now their wait is (almost) over.

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Sounds like a really crude method of launching torpedoes. Did any ever hit the broad side of a barn door?

About 3 G-5's sank a ship in all the war.

What, one of their own? I can see one of them not moving out of the way fast enough, and being hit by their own torpedo!

This method was the same as used during WWI and several ships were sunk with torpedoes lunched this way including destroyers and cruisers. Several survived in the RN and were still in use during WWII although by then they were used as mine layers.



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Looks good and a real good addition to the P.T. boat collective, seeing as there are 5 versions doable. But the question remains????? Where is the 77' Higgins!!!! All these 40 m.m.'s laying around and no gun boat version to drop them in.