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Ray Wilbur

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Frank, would a few donations help?

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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Ray, donations would be a welcome site. I have put together my Mosquito Fleet Exhibit donation letters and just picked them up. I will be sending them out on Thursday. The true cost of this project is having Stan scratch build the USS OYSTER BAY. At 60 inches in lenth, she will certainly be a sight to behold, and with PT-495, 490, and 491 next to her, people will get the true feeling of what the boats looked like next to ships of the line. If you have any folks that might be interested in helping me, just send me the address's and I will forward them a letter. Thank You very Much...........


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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Thanks to Carl Musselman I have all of the blue prints needed to have Stan build our USS Oyster Bay/Ray Wilbur project. Now all we need is money...............


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Frank, glad to hear you're honoring Ron 33 with your tender diorama. I have all my Uncle's Ron 33 pictures from Layte Gulf & have scanned & sent them out on disc to a few people. I've been going to put them on photobucket in an album, but just have never gotten to it. Some of the pictures are damaged from surviving a house fire & my goal has been to get them retouched & restored as much as possible before I post them, however after working 8-10 hours a day retouching & color correcting photos at work I'm very rarely in the mood to do it when I get home.
That said I'll just go ahead & post them as they are when I get home tonight.
When his daughter called me & told me she found them I had huge high hopes, and while I enjoy very much what they are, I wish some of them were better & in better condition. One neat thing he did do was to take close up cockpit shots of some of their boats which show the boat names & kill markings. I'm currently building my Italeri kit as the 488 Little Joe & while it appears in his pictures, it's frustrating that the photos aren't better. Hopefully you can get some use out of them.
Also if you'll e-mail me your address I'll put a CD of the photos in the mail to you, so you'll have them if you ever need to reference them.
Blake-

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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Blake thanks very much for your kind offer. You can never have enough reference photos in your Library. E-Mail has been sent to you............


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Blake, I would be pleased to add your photos to my Ron 33 photo album site.


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Carl M

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Hello, All!

I'm back in the swing of finishing up my 1/350 scale USS Oyster Bay and Ron 33 at Leyte Gulf in Nov 1944 diorama.

When I last left off, I had one PT Boat (PT-490) done with eight unfinished or not started. Each boat model requires removal of some molded-in features, the drilling out of deck hatches where they will be portrayed as open.

Then there is creating and attaching the gun mount circle bases and cleaning up, modifying, and attaching the 20mm and 37mm guns and the assembly of the resin and photo-etched 40mm guns for each boat. I am adding ammo ready storage boxes, and engine room vent assemblies that I had to create myself and have a friend cast mutliple copies of, in resin. And then there are the photo-etched rails around the .50 cal turrets and the photo-etched mufflers on the stern.

Each boat will have a varying assortment of supplies, laundry, tents, etc. on the decks, as well. This is why I have been putting this off for time for when I'm back in the mood. I'm really not in the perfect mood, now, but I want to get this done.

Another thing on my mind is that Victor Chun asked me for photos of the Oyster Bay model to put in his newest PT Boat book. I'd love for that to happen but, not of my incomplete model and diorama. Maybe I can get enough boats done and complete the ship, herself, for something to submit to Victor.





It was my pleasure to provide the plans of the Oyster Bay class of tenders to Frank for his 1/72 scale endeavor.

I, too, have the same dilemma as Frank in that I don't know how to arrange the various armaments and equipment (mostly torpedoes, depth charges, and smoke generators) on the individual boats of the squadron.

I want to identify each boat, in my dio, with their numbers but, I feel that I really can't if the number doesn't match the configuration.

I don't need to know PT-493's configuration for I am omitting it from my diorama because it was lost on Oct 25, 1944. No offense, but it's just one less boat to make.

I am going to follow ducati650's PT-495 model for that boat in my dio and PT-490 had two DCs and one smoke generator on the stern but, that's about all that I can confirm, at this time.

Blake,

Can you confirm the torpedo, depth charge, and smoke generator arrangement on the PT-488 since you are building a model of it?

Also, have you uploaded your photos online or given any to ducati650 to post on his web site? I'm hoping there are new and vaulable shots that I have seen, yet.


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Frank J Andruss Sr

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Carl
So nice to see that you are back in the saddle again and working on this wonderful project. The photo's and the Bl;ue Prints you sent to me have been very helpful, and should provide Stanley with everything he needs to make the USS OYSTER BAY. Again, it all depends on funding, but to see this Tender at close to 60 inches in lenth , should be wonderful. Thanks to Frank Ryczek who again has come through for me. He wil provide all of the 1/72 figures we would need for the project.

We will be using only three of the Ron 33 boats as any more just might cause this project to become way to large. Ray Wilbur's boat plus two others, should make this project a real winner. If any of you have any other photos to share please contact me by E-Mail. I will be happy to get them................


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TED WALTHER

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Carl;
As is a later RON and RON 33 is well documented, I am sure PTBOATS HQ has the photos you are looking for, remember, since all boats involved in Surigao Strait sortied up from New Guinea, they did not have any real time to change weapons mounts or armorment packages, so It would be correct to say you have a window, give or take a month.
take care,
TED


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Carl M

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Carl;
As is a later RON and RON 33 is well documented, I am sure PTBOATS HQ has the photos you are looking for, remember, since all boats involved in Surigao Strait sortied up from New Guinea, they did not have any real time to change weapons mounts or armorment packages, so It would be correct to say you have a window, give or take a month.
take care,
TED





Thanks for the tip, Ted. I'm not familiar with " PT Boas HQ ". Is that a web site? If so, where?


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