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Well, I think I'm finished with the engine room. Thanks for the responses to my questions about it. Here are a few pictures. I hope this works. Also, I really need
to get a better camera.

Thanks for looking,

GregB

[image]http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd439/Gregvb1/picture5.jpg[/image]

[image]http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd439/Gregvb1/picture4.jpg[/image]

[image]http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd439/Gregvb1/Picture3.jpg[/image]

[image]http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd439/Gregvb1/Picture2.jpg[/image]

[image]http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd439/Gregvb1/Picture1.jpg[/image]

Posted By: GregB | Posted on: Aug 6, 2011 - 3:39pm
Total Posts: 32 | Joined: May 12, 2011 - 9:08am

AWSOME! That really looks great and to think it's only 1/72 scale and not 1/35 or 1/32 scale. You can now probably do micro surgery too.

Very well done.

Cheers from Peter

"Give me a faster PT boat for I'd like to get out of harm's way!"

Posted By: PeterTareBuilder | Posted on: Aug 6, 2011 - 3:44pm
Total Posts: 494 | Joined: Jun 24, 2008 - 5:59pm

FANTASTIC!!! THAT REALLY PUTS IT INTO PERSPECTIVE.

Steve Tuhy

Posted By: Steve Tuhy | Posted on: Aug 6, 2011 - 4:54pm
Total Posts: 114 | Joined: Oct 17, 2006 - 5:41am

Great job!

Will

Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Aug 6, 2011 - 6:23pm
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm

Wow!

This is the first scale-modeled PT boat engine room I've ever seen -- great job!

Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Aug 6, 2011 - 6:37pm
Total Posts: 1306 | Joined: Oct 19, 2006 - 10:44am

That's a nice piece of scratch building Greg. Thanks for keeping us posted on your progress.
Dave

David Waples

Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 11:55am
Total Posts: 1679 | Joined: Jan 2, 2007 - 9:55pm

VERY NICE!!!!!!!!!

Posted By: Mark Culp | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 2:31pm
Total Posts: 135 | Joined: Oct 15, 2006 - 2:56pm

Beautiful Job done with such a small scale. Glad you posted the photo's. Looking forward to seeing the completed build.............

Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 4:11pm
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am

Nice, nice and...NICE!

With all the new info from Washichek's DVD of ELCO blueprints I expect to see a lot more interiors such as this!

Bridge

Posted By: TheBridge | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 4:30pm
Total Posts: 318 | Joined: Nov 22, 2009 - 3:04pm

Thanks everyone.

However, I have realized that the engine room is not finished. I forgot to put in the gear shifters? I don't know what they are called but they look like a long gear shifter. The pictures I have show one on the starboard engine and center engine but I don't see one on the port engine. Does the port engine have one?

Thanks again.

GregB

Posted By: GregB | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 5:04pm
Total Posts: 32 | Joined: May 12, 2011 - 9:08am

Hi Greg,
Awesome job on your model! I too have never seen such amazing work in that scale. I saw some detail photos of the interior of an 80 foot Elco, namely PT127 taken from Mark Douglas' PT127 website. Marks Dad Robert J Douglas took numerous photos and these show the shift levers quite well. I hope Mark does not mind my posting the pics here.

In the pics I think you can see a "linkage rod" that leads from the port engine over to near the operators seat, so he could shift all 3 engines from his seat. I may be wrong, but that is how it looks. I hope these are helpful. Jerry

PS we are installing a similar reach rod on the center engine of our PT658 so that a single person can shift all 3 engines from one spot. Hopefully the Elco's did a similar thing.

Photos shows reach rod
[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/PT127engineroomLatifHenderson.jpg[/image]

Reach rod shift lever

[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/PT127engineroomWomackHendersonLatif_tif.jpg[/image]

I think that is the port engine reach rod laying across horizontally

[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/PT127engineroomRichardUllery.jpg[/image]

Another angle showing shift levers

[image]http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p249/ptboats/Jerry%20Gilmartin/PT127EngRoom2.jpg[/image]

I hope this helps! Jerry

Jerry Gilmartin

Posted By: Jerry Gilmartin | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 6:58pm
Total Posts: 1473 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 11:16pm

Jerry,

Thanks alot! I have seen Marks site and his pictures were a big inspiration in
building my engine room. However, as many times as I looked at those pictures
on his site I somehow missed the third one. That's what I was looking for! Proof
positive that two sets of eyes are better than one.

Now I've just gotta figure out how to fit that in. [:-bigeyes2-:]

Thanks again.
GregB

Posted By: GregB | Posted on: Aug 7, 2011 - 8:36pm
Total Posts: 32 | Joined: May 12, 2011 - 9:08am

Greg,

You might also want to check the several engine room scenes in the movie "PT 109" -- some good shots of the motor macs throwing the shift levers into gear.

Posted By: Drew Cook | Posted on: Aug 9, 2011 - 4:24pm
Total Posts: 1306 | Joined: Oct 19, 2006 - 10:44am

Greg,

This is more than Super Cool!

Posted By: Carl M | Posted on: Aug 17, 2011 - 9:28pm
Total Posts: 79 | Joined: Jan 12, 2010 - 1:15pm