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[StartQuote] T Garth, I enjoyed your Revell PT model article, too. Although the Revell 1/72nd PT 109 80' Elco has always been the best kit of this boat around, there were always a couple of things about the kit that bugged me one way or the other -- something I wish they either did or didn't do. As far as scribing, I wish Revell HAD scribed a waterline on the hull, to aid in the difficult task of painting a straight one! I wish they had included a splash skirt on the port twin-.50 turret, the ports, vents, sidelights, and footsteps on the starboard side of the charthouse and port side of the dayroom, and the searchlight pintle arm on the port, outboard side of the cockpit -- those are the biggest "sins of omission," in my opinion, in what they left off the kit. Unless you're an excellent scratchbuilder (which I'm not), these difficult-to-realize details will go missing on a finished kit. The charthouse vents in the White Ensign Models photo-etched set are certainly better than nothing, but, like almost all of the White Ensign parts, they're too flat and one-dimensional. The huge, overhanging...whatevers on the sides of the dayroom canopy above the ports can be minimized/sawn off, but, like the ports themselves, could have been done better, as well as that unexplained open area under the fairing at the starboard rear of the dayroom canopy. Accurate twin-.50 mounts, instead of a single post, would have been nice, as well as a few more crewmen, since even the early boats carried crews of ten to twelve guys (although the JFK figure, wearing the fatigue cap shown in the famous photos of him on the 109, is great. Swap his arms for the helmsman's, and put him at the wheel). Opened torpedo tubes, with torpedo warheads showing, would have been nice, too, as well as the raised "star" pattern reinforcing ribs on the rears of the tube loading doors -- the White Ensign set, thankfully, has these, but from pictures I've seen of those parts on a finished model, they're out of scale (too big). Depth charges with cradles should have been included, even if they were "low-detail" types, like the ones on Revell's 1/72nd scale 70' Vosper kit, as well as the famous 37mm field piece and planks, added the day of the 109's last patrol. Of course, these can all be added from different sources or scratch-built, but those are some of the things I always wished were present in the kit. Even though it's 45 years old, this kit (until the Italeri 1/35th boat came out) has always been the best plastic 80' Elco PT model around. A couple of the modelers that post here on the board have done some really good, advanced work on this venerable kit. Dave Waples , from the photos he posted of his progress on an accurate "PT 109" version of the kit, did a beautiful job, particularly on the cockpit. Maybe those guys can post some more photos of their progress, if they're further along...? [EndQuote]
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