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Topic: Anyone Seen INSIDE the Italeri PT Crew Set Yet? |
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Dec 12, 2008 - 1:19pm
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They look pretty good to me...certainly better than the horrors that pass for crew figures in the Lindberg kit...Seeing as they're made without helmets, I'd find and slap a couple of fatigue caps on a couple of heads...
I just noticed something...did the Italeri PT 596 kit forget to include an alternate pintle arm mount for the searchlight?
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Drew Cook
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Posted on: Dec 12, 2008 - 1:26pm
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Frank,
"...ripped shirts, shorts...open-toed shoes, shirtless men..." -- on a late-war combat patrol? I think not.
You can, of course, paint the helmets any color you want, and also paint "beards" on...
You're talking about figures for a dockside diorama, not for crewing a late-war 80' Elco PT boat on a combat patrol...which is what the Italeri figures are made to represent (obviously).
I'll take the battle-dressed figures anyday.
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Will Day
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Posted on: Dec 12, 2008 - 3:33pm
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There are lots of after-market head, arm and hand sets out there......
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Frank J Andruss Sr
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Posted on: Dec 12, 2008 - 4:58pm
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Drew
I beg to differ sith you my friend. I have spoken to many PT VETS that have worn many different types of clothing on a PT BOAT. Many wore shorts, with Combat Boots. Yes, shirts were kept handy for cool nights, and some even related to me that they threw on Life Jackets on bare bodies. Some told me of wearing no Helmets during GQ, but just their Kaki Caps. You are correct that the figures represent a Crew at the ready for combat, but as with no boat being the same, so it went with the Crews.
The figures I spoke about could certainly be used for Base Force, but very likely could be used for any backdating of the Italeri Boat. True, Crews might have worn less in the Pacific then the Med, and possibly wore even more clothing in the later part of the War. For instance, the boats in England in the cold waters would not have worn shorts, and went topless. It just would be nice to have that choice.
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Will Day
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Posted on: Dec 13, 2008 - 12:03pm
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If you want to get nit-picky, I wonder why they mounted the depression rail on the forward .50-cal turret backwards?
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