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Topic: Early PT Boat Green- (PT-109) Some ideas......... |
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David Waples
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Posted on: Dec 5, 2012 - 8:42pm
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Did you all notice the position of the depth charge racks on the Elco at the very end with the bee hive? Same as the 109 boat.
Back to color, I'm not sure how you can make out anything looking at that color movie film. The film looks very washed out to me. Hard to say what we're looking at.
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Dec 6, 2012 - 4:43am
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Here's some info about the video, but I couldn't find it for sale anywhere:
History Channel, History's Raiders part 5 of 26, PT Boats in the Pacific
War Documentary published by History Channel in 2001
Google showed mostly warez downloads but you can save it from Youtube in Firefox with the Ant plugin.
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Drew Cook |
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Posted on: Dec 6, 2012 - 6:21am
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"Back to color, I'm not sure how you can make out anything looking at that color movie film. The film looks very washed out to me. Hard to say what we're looking at."
You're right, Dave, it is fuzzy, but -- she's an 80' Elco, and she's green !
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Matthew Waki
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Posted on: Dec 6, 2012 - 12:35pm
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Yup, the quality is not good. However, color correction tells us that the greens in the clips are in reality more “green”. Considering how washed out the color in the images are, likely noticeably more green. Nothing I’d trust to know what hue of green though. Just not as grayed out as they show.
Still, another good puzzle piece IMO.
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Roy Forbes
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Posted on: Dec 19, 2012 - 3:04pm
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Dave, Your 109 resting on that cradle is simply outstanding! I’m struggling with a base for the 623 in it’s new case and man that carved wood base you have is awesome. Did you do it of did you have it made?
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David Waples
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Posted on: Dec 20, 2012 - 5:45am
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Thanks Roy. I'm glad you like it.
What I did was create the concept in Microsoft Word. I found a local guy that does laser engraving and sent him the file and the base. Check with the engraver to find out if it should be finished or unfinished. I'm thinking it was finished when I sent it to him but I don't remember.
Shop around because some people are more reasonable than others. There is a company I ran into in Florida during the IPMS show that does nice work and was reasonably priced
http://www.royalamericanengravers.com
PT Boats Inc has drawings of the Elco cradle. They're a little rough but you get enough info to be able to scratch one together.
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Roy Forbes
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Posted on: Dec 28, 2012 - 5:39pm
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Thanks for the info David. That just looks so cool. You need to get that baby in the water for some photos.
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