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Topic: Question for vets about hull battle damage repair |
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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 Posted on: Nov 16, 2009 - 6:35am
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Dave
It would be awesome to have a build showing a damaged hull not yet repaired although I do not think you could do it with a Plastic Hull. This would have to be a wooden planked hull, but I could see it being done with Carpenters Mates Figures, wooden planking, staging or drydock, with the boat pulled out of the water, or pulled up on a Marine Railway system in the Med. Hmmmm another possible project.
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PeterTareBuilder
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Posted on: Nov 16, 2009 - 8:41am
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Hi Frank J.
It would be very possible to build a PT boat undergoing hull repairs even in styrene. Painting can make plastic indistinguishable from wood when done by someone very skilled in painting. Check some of the styrene molded wooden crates on some of the armor dioramas and you'll see that it's almost impossible to tell that the crates aren't wood.
Cheers from Peter
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: Nov 16, 2009 - 9:00am
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Your Right Pete> They look just as good as wood. In any case, I think it would be an awesome project. This is shy I did the FEMU BARGE and the ELCO CRANE PROJECT, because no one ever made them and we just dont always see the other side of PT BOATS...........
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PeterTareBuilder
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Posted on: Nov 16, 2009 - 11:50am
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Hi there again Frank.
I agree that a diorama of a PT boat undergoing repairs in the field would make a great diorama. It's like you said -- people hear about the dash but the don't know much about the mundane.
I find the same thing in my armour and artillery models in 1/35 scale. I've been working on a diorama that consists of three sections that together tell a story about the 25 pounder field gun/howitzer in use. Onre section has a Chevy truck being unloaded and the gunners carrying the 100+ pounds crates of ammo towards the gun which is not visible in this section. Getting the figures to look exhausted and also to appear to be carrying such heavy loads was hard. IT does make an impact on people who see it though. They often say they never realized it was such backbreaking work to feed the guns.
I think in the same way the dioramas that you have had created showing the PT boat in non-combat settings is also very educational and makes people think about the *MEN* who manned those boats as well as thinking about the boats themselves.
I hope things go well with the current diorama(s) under construction.
Cheers from Peter
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Jerry Gilmartin |
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Posted on: Nov 18, 2009 - 2:05pm
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Hi everybody. The PT658 has been undergoing some "Battle Damage Repair" so to speak, in the battle against time. Currently we are in the process of removing the Deck and will be replacing the deck soon. As we remove the deck we had to remove the gunwale (and rub rail) and we discovered a lot more rotten wood. So we are slowly but surely replacing the deck one portion at a time. First we plan on doing the forward 1/3rd and then we will remove the torpedoes and 40mm gun from the midships section and remove the deck and replace it then. Her are a couple of photos that show the progress being made. I think the charthouse being lifted up above the boat looks pretty cool, dont you? Jerry
Here is the bow deck removed along with some rotten wood from below the gunwale
Here is one of our volunteers Jim Mitchell working on new deck beams and sistering the beams with new mahogany.
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