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Frank Andruss

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Can anyone please provide me with plans that will help me with this build. If you maybe can E Mail them to me, or mail them to me, I would be most appreciative. PT-494 Ron 33


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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of smallwi  Posted on: Sep 12, 2015 - 5:40pm
Frank,

No plans, these were standard 80 foot ELCOs. The armourment was standard across the squadron:

37 mm Oldsmobile gun on forepeak
2 20mm guns flanking the chart house
2 single 50 caliber mg flanking the day room
2 twin 50 caliber standard mounts
40mm on the stern

There are quite a few photographs of Ron 33 boats in the numerous PT boat references. If you look a bit I am sure you will find the 494 boat well represented. I built a 1/35 scale PT 491 years ago. No problems finding references from different vantage points.

Bill

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Post a Reply To This Topic    Reply With Quotes     Edit Message     View Profile of ducati650   Send Email To ducati650 Posted on: Sep 12, 2015 - 9:49pm
Frank. I sent you a couple e-mails.

There are a number of things needed to backdate the 596 kit to 49x.

The 37 mm is the earlier type with shorter barrel and rounder mag.

A 20 mm was mounted in the location provided on the kit plus 2 others at the forward edge of the chart house forward of the torpedoes.

On a number of RON33 boats 1 of the 2 forward, outboard 20 mm was an acey-ducey (20mm flanked by .50 cals on each side on a locally fabricated frame and mount).

The base of the radio antenna is the wrong shape. It should be more square. I didn't pick up on this until after the fact.

On the splash shields there were often a pole mounted single 30cal, one on each side.

There was often a twin 50 cal mount between the port, forward torpedo and the chart house.

The radar mast and dome might need to be backdated depending on the time period of the model.

The engine room/vent is too wide. The kit has the late war, wide version.

A ready ammo rack for the 40 mm is needed. The base/mount for the 40 mm is the late war type. A round, slightly lower base is needed. The 40 mm mount rails are not used. nor was the 40 mm depression rail.

According to a 495 boat crewman (Ray Wilbur) the 495 boat had 2 smoke canisters and no depth charges though photos of some other RON 33 boats show single smoke canisters and 2 depth charge mounts, some on the stern and some between the torpedoes.

Hope this helps.


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Sorry for the not so good photos but they do show most of the modified pieces. This model of the 495 boat is as She looked in October of '44. Some time after the battle damage of December '44, She was repaired and looked more like the 596 kit with late style radar and mast and other armament.

This was built before the accessory kit was available so the radar mast and dome and some other pieces were scratch built and the extra 20 mm and ammo drums and mounts and ready ammo boxes and smoke canister were cast in resin using silicone mounts I made from the originals in the kit.

This model is by no means as accurate or as detailed as some of the fantastic builds done by Dave and several others but I tried to capture the "feel" of the 495 as She looked during the battle. If doing it again, there are more changes I would make and details I would add that were discovered or brought to light and are now documented.

Ed


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Thanks so much, just what I was looking for.


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