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Topic: New photo of PT 109 under JFK comes to light |
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Bob Butler
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Posted on: Jun 15, 2013 - 11:52am
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It's been reported the boat was painteed with black and yellow pigments.and that makes Olive. We use to get 5 gal buckets of O.D. , it looked like greese and we thinned it with gasoline to get a nice orange peel texture. That photo really brings back some memories.
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David Buck
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 Posted on: Jun 15, 2013 - 7:36pm
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Just a general point have a look at the dials of the instrument panel in the second colour photo they appear white or close to it, the colour they should? be.
In the third colour photo they appear to have quite a red colour to them, maybe a little to far with the photo shop.
Plus some where I have read that the Atabrine tablets the men were required to take turned their skin quite a yellow colour, not your normal stateside colour.
And just to open a can of worms, of three shots one hit a light pole two hit the man the first traveling through his neck and hitting the Mayor of Dallas which even if the third shot had not been fired would have caused his death.
I am a little out of touch with that part as the last time I watched the roundup of the event was abut six months ago.
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earl
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Posted on: Jun 15, 2013 - 8:14pm
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if i remember correctly when we wwent into drydock for rep[airs nand redoing the painting if the boat we first scraped the boast,we then applied a coatinf of what we called red lead paiint/then applied a coatinf of yellow sulphur collered paunt and then applied a gray paint/then applied a dark green in camo wavy pattern as camoflage.
i think the original colors of our boats was a of a darrker hue than shown in the phiotos shwon herre, the age of the paint on the boats/the salt water and the extreme brightness of the sun may have lightened th e original "green" paint. jusy an obServation on my part. earl
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Will Day
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Posted on: Jun 15, 2013 - 9:35pm
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Thanks, Earl. It makes a world of difference in all of this to hear from you guys who were really Out In The Area.....
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jun 16, 2013 - 3:23am
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Wow Earl, there was more work in repainting a boat than I would have guessed.
Someone had fun colorizing JFK in the cockpit... and did a fairly good job of it except for in a few spots like the pipe and upper left gauge.
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Drew Cook |
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Posted on: Jun 16, 2013 - 2:18pm
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Except for that weird orange (?) life ring on the 61...
I'm pretty sure most of them were overpainted the same color as the rest of the boat(s)...
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PeterTareBuilder2
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Posted on: Jun 16, 2013 - 4:11pm
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What subject was being exposed will also affect colour of other items in an image. I don't think there is any way, short of time travel, to tell exactly what colour and/or shade was used on any particular boat. If you want to paint something big or knit or crochet something large the very first piece of advice given is make sure everything comes from the same LOT number. That's because different lots of the supposedly same colour can be significantly and thus noticeably different fom others.
I still marvell athe angle of those gun tubs on 109. I always thought they were a lot more level than that.
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Frank Andruss
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Posted on: Jun 16, 2013 - 5:15pm
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Trust me Pete, Stan has so much to do right now, no time for any Diorama's. He just got out of Surgery on Friday for Carpal Tunnel on his right hand. He will be out of commission for a little bit. PT-61 on the drawing board for just after the summer, should be a good one. Looking to have PT-109 Italeri Kit built for my Exhibit as well.
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PeterTareBuilder2
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Posted on: Jun 16, 2013 - 9:12pm
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Trust me Pete, Stan has so much to do right now, no time for any Diorama's. He just got out of Surgery on Friday for Carpal Tunnel on his right hand. He will be out of commission for a little bit. PT-61 on the drawing board for just after the summer, should be a good one. Looking to have PT-109 Italeri Kit built for my Exhibit as well.
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Hi Frank.
Please tell Stan that I wish him a speedy and complete recovery.
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David Waples
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Posted on: Jun 16, 2013 - 10:19pm
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What subject was being exposed will also affect colour of other items in an image. I don't think there is any way, short of time travel, to tell exactly what colour and/or shade was used on any particular boat. If you want to paint something big or knit or crochet something large the very first piece of advice given is make sure everything comes from the same LOT number. That's because different lots of the supposedly same colour can be significantly and thus noticeably different fom others.
I still marvell athe angle of those gun tubs on 109. I always thought they were a lot more level than that.
Cheers
"Give me a fast boat for we want to get out of harm's way too."
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Peter,
Those photos are the Hollywood PT-109 movie prop boats. They're not the actual 109 boat.
Dave
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