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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Jun 22, 2019 - 8:46am
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Some pics taken on the water today, no close encounters of the animal kind . Hope to post some action photos or video later.
The model runs very well, it's much faster than my old PT model.
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Arjan
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TED WALTHER |
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Posted on: Jul 12, 2019 - 8:35pm
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Arjan;
Great photos!
take care,
TED
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Jul 13, 2019 - 12:49am
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Thanks Ted, here's another one taken two weeks ago :
In the mean time I have added the deadlights to the deck. If I'm not mistaken there should be 1 more than provided in the Italeri PT 596 kit.
Apparently the torp heads of PT 515 had been adorned with shark mouths at some point :
I have been trying to reproduce these but painting them by hand in 1/35 scale is not easy (needless to say decals would be preferable).
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Arjan
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jul 14, 2019 - 4:12am
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Nice Arjan, thanks I've never seen that torpedo art before. Pretty fancy! I checked my image stash but couldn't find any other photos of the art.
Your boat should have 18 deck / dead lights according to Elco drawings. If I remember right, Italeri has them symmetrical on both sides but the starboard side has 2 less, near the forward turret:
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Jul 14, 2019 - 9:30am
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Thanks Jeff, the number and position of the dead lights of my PT 515 model are not quite accurate but I doubt if anyone will notice .
The torp art reminds me of the artwork on PT 155 Dragon Lady :
By the way, I also like the artwork on PT 155's chart house :
http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05155.htm
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Arjan
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jul 15, 2019 - 3:55am
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Yep except for the extras at the forward turret I doubt I'd notice!
Do you happen to have a more complete shot of the torpedo art on the 515? It looks to be really well done.
Yes the Dragon Lady art was nice, you can tell someone with artistic talent was around. Me, if I drew a cat I'd also have to write "CAT" under it so people would know what it was. One of my favorite chart house art is the "GALLOPING GUILLOTINE" on PT 192: http://www.ptboatforum.com/cgi-bin/MB2/netboardr.cgi?fid=102&cid=101&tid=1810&pg=6&sc=20&x=0
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Arjan Wiskerke
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Posted on: Jul 15, 2019 - 9:04am
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Nice pics Jeff, I hadn't seen these before. Unfortunately, the torpedo artwork on PT 515 is only partly visible in one frame. The smoke generator was apparently also painted in two tone camo :
Judging from the available pics, PT 513 was the only other boat with torpedoes, depth charges and smoke generator finished in two tone camo paint :
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Arjan
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Jeff D
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Posted on: Jul 16, 2019 - 3:52am
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Thanks Arjan, interesting how the darker color blends jaggedly to the deck on the aft turret.
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