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 Author  Topic: Merit 1/48th scale PT 103-class 80' Elco kit
  Drew Cook

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of Drew Cook  Posted on: Apr 3, 2015 - 7:42am
The current (May 2015) issue of Fine Scale Modeler magazine has a notice on their New Products - Ships page of the Merit "U.S. Navy Elco 80' PT Boat, early type" with a photo of the box top.

The box art has the boat rendered in green (but what shade?) and listed at $93.00 retail.

Yikes! Too rich for my blood, but I'd like to eventually see someone's buildup of this kit.


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Will Day

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I think Stan Pienkowski did this as PT-580.

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  Drew Cook

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Will,

Stan would've used the initial Merit "U.S. Navy Elco 80' Motor Patrol Torpedo Boat Late Type" for a PT 580 build, not this new PT 103-class kit, right?

The kit review of the initial Merit late-war 80' Elco on YouTube shows it to have excellently-rendered parts, and I'd expect the same for the new 103-class boat. But, at almost $100 for a boat not that much bigger than the old 1/72nd scale Revell PT 109...


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It's not finished yet, but Tracy White has a nice build going on here: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=158609.



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