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Jeff D
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 Posted on: Feb 6, 2019 - 4:18pm
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Yes it did Arjan. It was dimensionally the same as the early boats with a 10 inch height by 12 inch width opening in the door and corner radii of 1/2 inch. The bottom of the opening was 14 inches below the top of the door. The window frame was similar to those found on the front of the chart house (with less corner radius) and was 12 inch height by 14 inch width with corner radii of 1 1/2 inch. This render of the earlier boats door shows what it looks like, the size of the door and location of the window in it are the same:
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Feb 6, 2019 - 4:43pm
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Always good to verify the drawings, you can just see it in this image of PT 508:
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Feb 6, 2019 - 7:10pm
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I forgot to mention:
The door is 19 1/2 inch by 49 inch.
The inside / outside corner radii of the 1 inch width window frame is 1/2 inch / 1 1/2 inch.
The window is centered horizontally in the door.
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Feb 7, 2019 - 1:31am
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Many thanks Jeff ! By now I'm convinced that Italeri's PT 109 kit is a much better starting point for building a Ron 34/35 boat than the PT 596 one. Of course the former does lack the necessary armament..Perhaps I will try to convert my PT 109 kit into a Ron 29 boat in the future.
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Feb 7, 2019 - 4:38am
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You're welcome Arjan! 
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Feb 9, 2019 - 2:20am
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Some pics of my bridge door and control panel (still have to add details). The coaming above the doorpost is a bit too heavy and I will replace it by a more slender one.
My take on the vents :
Helmsman and commander still need some touching up :
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Feb 11, 2019 - 1:14am
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Yesterday I fitted the 3d airfoil wind deflector from Panzer VS Tanks 2. Unfortunately these parts are rather disappointing and I can't recommend them. In general the parts are all a bit too small, at least that goes for the wing and storage brackets. The wing itself is also too short by about 2.5 mm. For some strange reason the designer apparently thought that the wing struts were not straight but bent. The wing also sits too low over the bridge. Tom's homemade deflector is definitely more accurate and unfortunately I will also have to make one myself.
I know that the original drawings of the deflector are difficult to read but there are enough pics showing what the thing looked like.
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Feb 12, 2019 - 5:07pm
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Nice work on the vents and crewmen Arjan!
I see what you mean about the wind deflector parts being too small. The airfoil length should be 9, I wonder if he misread it as 6 since the dimension reads vertically on the drawing. There are 2 drawings that are on the DVD to cover all but the 565-624 boats, unlike your photo neither have both stanchions straight. One shows a stanchion offset on just one side while the earlier one shows offsets on both. Maybe the photo is of a 565-624 boat? Wing widths were also different. Here are some measurements:
PT 314-367 and unknown earlier
Airfoil width: 68
Stanchion heights / offsets: 24 1/8 with 7/8 offset outboard, 3 3/4 inboard
PT 372-383, 486-563, 731-760
Airfoil width: 71 3/4
Stanchion heights / offsets: 24 1/8 with 7/8 offset outboard, 0 inboard
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Feb 13, 2019 - 12:57am
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Thanks for posting the drawings Jeff. Judging from pics it seems to me that the starboard stanchion was indeed as straight as a ramrod, if there was any offset it's not noticeable in pics. A slight offset in the port stanchion does show up in some pics though.
Starboard stanchion :
Port stanchion :
Both stanchions :
edit: I guess the designer of the 3d parts in question used the drawings for the earlier boat series. He should at least change his "boxart" because this depicts a Channel boat.
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Feb 13, 2019 - 6:50am
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In the mean time I have rustled up a homemade trial version. It's not perfect yet but I may stick to steel wire for the stanchions , after all I'm building an rc model which shouldn't be too vulnerable .
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