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I really enjoy looking at the process when someone is building a model. When Alex Johnson built me the Beautiful model of PT 41 for my Exhibit, he sent me pictures in progress. I find this very interesting and would hope more of you on this message board would do the same. I would love to see some pictures of work you guys are doing so, get that camera out and snap thise pictures. Will, have you started on that boat you won on the raffel...............
Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: Feb 26, 2008 - 5:44pm
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am
Ahoy there Frank-
Could you please e-mail your address please. I have a lot of pictures that I would like to send to you on loan of my Tulagi PT boat base diorama stationed in the Solomon Islands. I've been working on this project for over 10 years and it's still growing! My newest addition is the sick bay/hospital on Tulagi that took me a year to construct from scratch. I made the roof removable so that the detailed interior can be observed. The front 2/3 rds is the sick bay itself and the back 1/3rd is the operating room. It's all scratch built in 1/32 scale! I think you'll get a big kick out of seeing these pictures.
I wish there was a way for me to put these on the web board for all to see, but I do not have a scanner nor do I know how to do that! These are photos developed at my local Wal-Mart.
Thank you kindly!
Frank Ryczek
Modeler/Freind RON 10 PT-169 " ZEBRA SNAFU "
HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!
YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!
Posted By: FRANK | Posted on: Feb 26, 2008 - 6:28pm
Total Posts: 349 | Joined: Oct 7, 2007 - 2:09pm
I have a photo album thread that I add photos to. The original address remains valid. Tonight I added these to it. This is a 1/72 scale Revell kit with WEM PE.
[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/65524/UNTIP-45360275-DSCN0226_288.JPG[/image]
[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/65524/OFEYB-225901053-DSCN0227_289.JPG[/image]
[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/65524/IILDV-97858637-DSCN0228_290.JPG[/image]
The inspiration:
[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/65524/DOOBB-118287710-PT-169(01).jpg[/image]
It is funny you bring this up because I was just thinking the other day how lucky we modelers are to be so well accepted by this board. You guys answer our endless questions, share your experiences and make us feel, at least in a small way, like we too are part of something bigger. I guess I'm just saying "Thank you. Thank you all." I've met some great people here and I can't express in words how wonderful it is to rub-shoulders, so to speak, with people who helped preserve the world I so enjoy.
Ed
Posted By: ducati650 | Posted on: Feb 26, 2008 - 6:55pm
Total Posts: 450 | Joined: Feb 19, 2007 - 10:01am
Thanks Frank and Ed:
I love seeing projects come to life and Frank I would love to see your pictures. You can E-Mail me any time at mosquitofleet@comcast.net. I will send you my address. Ed, your project looks to be taking off on a high note. Can't wait to see more pictures as you continue on to the finish line. I never get sick of seeing PT BOATS...................
Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: Feb 26, 2008 - 9:06pm
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am
Hi, Frank. Yes, I've started the "raffle" boat; building her up as PT-149. I want to duplicate the photo of her on the back cover of Vic Chun's book.
It's going to take a while. That Lindberg model has lots of problems, not the least of which being the fact that it's not built to a specific scale (it wanders between 1/32nd & 1/35th, depending on what parts you are looking at).
Frank, thanks for your enthusiasm and your tireless work on the exhibit. You are an intrigal part of keeping this message board a going concern.
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 6:45am
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
Thanks Will for those kind words. Seeing so many young people such as myself and others interested in PT BOAT HISTORY makes me feel good about the education process. Just last week, I attended my Exhibit and as I walked into the Exhibit Hall, I noticed a young boy about 5 to 6 years of age sitting on one of the benches. He was watching my DVD on the large screen TV, which was GIANT KILLERS. He watched the whole thing, never taking his eyes off the screen.
When it was done, I approached him to ask him if he liked PT BOATS. In his little boy voice he said " I never knew what a PT BOAT was until my Mommy brought me here". I sure do love them now. I was so impressed with this little boy as he kept looking at the models and asking me questions about everything he could think of. I told him to have his Mommy give me their address and I would send him a model PT BOAT in the Mail. I got the address, sent him his model boat, (which I found out he bugged his Mother every day until it arrived)and he and his Daddy put it together. He sent me a thank you card, which Mommy wrote for him, and on the front he drew a PT BOAT firing at an attacking Japanese Plane. I sat back for a moment and realized that this is what it is all about. The model now sits on his desk at home................
Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 7:54am
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am
Hi Frank-
Thank you for the reply to my post. I'll e-mail you this afternoon and get your address and send my pictures out to you.
The story of the young boy at your museum brought a smile to my face as well. I'm starting to get my grandson Connor, who is five, interested in making models with me. He even helped with the building of my sick bay addition to my Tulagi diorama. Once I had the base carved from laminated sheets of stryofoam, I painted the whole thing with a base coat of light tan water based latex paint. I then coated it with a thick coat of white glue and added bird gravel sand mixture for the sand final base. Connor's job was to spread the sand on top of the wet glue. The look on his face was priceless!
After the base was completed I even had Connor "plant" some hand crafted palm trees and lay some textured ground cover as well.
I entered this section of diorama at a local hobby contest and took Best of Show for Dioramas and First Place for Military Vehicles. I guess you could say it was the "grand " prize because it was a winning combinaation of grandpa and grandson working together. Ain't nothing better than that!
Thanks for sharing with us Frank and letting me do the same!
Frank Ryczek, Jr.
Modeler/ Friend RON 10 PT-169
HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!
YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!
Posted By: FRANK | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 8:47am
Total Posts: 349 | Joined: Oct 7, 2007 - 2:09pm
Will;
If you are making the lindberg 1/32nd scale model, it is a lot of work to make it right, On my model of PT 167"Who Me?" (November 1944), I even built up the bow on mine with balsa wood "Planks" just to get the bow into somewhat the correct shape. To me the model hull straight out of the box resembles the Higgins hull more than an Elco. I also rebuilt my whole deck and superstructure. The only thing I kept were the gun tubs!
Good Luck and let us see your progress!
TED
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 10:38am
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
HELLO TO ALL YOU MODELERS.I WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE FINE WORK YOU ARE DOING SO THAT THE PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS CAN REMEMBER THE PT BOATS.YOU ARE THE GUYS THAT KEEP IT ALL GOING ON.MY 13 YEAR OLD,AT THE TIME,GRANDAUGHTER IN PENNA E MAILED ME AND ASKED IF SHE COULD INTERVIEW ME ABOUT THE BOATS.WE SPENT OVER AN OUR ON THE PHONE AND I SENT HER A LOT OF INFO BY MAIL.SHE TURNED HER ESSAY I N AT SCHOOL AND GOT AN A PLUS ON IT.I HAVE A COPY OF FRAMED IN MY DEN NOW.I WAS VERY PROUD THAT SHE TOOK SUCH AN INTEREST IN THE BOATS.SHE ALSO SAID THAT WHILE READING THE ESASAY IN SCHOOL YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP.MANY QUWESTIONS WERE ASKED BY THE OTHER CHILDRENS AND TEACHERS.AT LEAST THERE IS ONE CLASS OF CHILDREN THAT WILL REMEMBER "THE BOATS".NOW MY GRANDSON DID THE SAME THING HERE IN SCHOOL.ALSO GOT AN A PLUS.THIS SHOWS THAT THE CHILDREN ARE INTERESTED IN WHATEVER INFO THEYT CAN GET ABOUT WW11.MADE ME FEEL MIGHT PROUD TO HAVE A PART IN THEIR LEARNING
earl richmond
Posted By: EARL RICHMOND | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 10:41am
Total Posts: 319 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 1:50pm
Hi, Ted.
I'm even replacing the gun tubs with resin ones!
Will
Posted By: Will Day | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 11:14am
Total Posts: 1955 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 4:19pm
First of all, thanks Earl for your kind words and your Navy service. We model builders are honored to learn about PT Boat history from the men who fought in and lived aboard the boats. Last year I built a 1/24th scale model of Bulkeley's PT 41 for Frank Andruss' Mosquito Fleet Exhibit. Garth Connelly was kind enough to post the article I wrote about the project on his website. Anyone interested can see my write-up on the 41 Boat's construction (complete with pictures) as well as a 1/72nd scale model of PT 167 I made back in 2006 for a former crewmember. These along with a number of other articles about PT Boat models by other modelers are available at Mr. Connelly's site which is:
http://www.ptboatworld.com/models.htm
Thanks,
ALEX
Posted By: Alex Johnson | Posted on: Feb 27, 2008 - 1:19pm
Total Posts: 70 | Joined: Mar 2, 2007 - 12:07pm
Alex: Our boat was at Rendova when the 167 came in after being hit by the Jap torpedo that went through the bow just below deck and above the water line. The torpedo had not run in the water to arm itself consequently did not explode. If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed it. It was a zebra stripped boat.
C. J. Willis
Posted By: CJ Willis | Posted on: Feb 28, 2008 - 8:42am
Total Posts: 464 | Joined: Nov 5, 2006 - 5:02pm
Hey guys-
I just thought that I'd relate to everyone the inpact that scale models make on the general public, especially school aged kids!
I have this diorama of a PT boat base of Tulagi that I love to display whenever I can. The whole thing fits into my Pontiac Montana van. I was invited to a WW II veterans show in Fernandina Beach, Florida about three years ago.
My display includes the sounds of an dogfight between a Japanese Zero and the actuall sound of a F4U Corsair. On the tape I've also added President Franklin D. Roosevelt's adress to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941. A busload of college students came in to observe the displays-uniforms, weapons, patches, jeeps and so on.
One young couple approached my display and we started chatting as I discribed my diorama. Just then the recording of FDR address to Congress came on the tape player. I said, " Listen guys, That's President Roosevelt speaking about the attack on Pearl Harbor!" The young girl "college'" student then pipes up and says, and I quote, " OH, Pearl Harbor? That's somewhere in North Carolina???!!!"
Needless to say I was absolutely FLOORED! Here is a college student that had NO CLUE about Pearl Harbor!
The following week I made a pact with the local school system and I started to bring my diorama into the school systems to teach these youngsters just what it was like to serve in the South Pacific and the activity of the impact of the PT boats on the Second World War.
It is very satisfying to see the smile of a group of kids when they walk into a class room after a set up the diorama display! I look at it this way folks! If i can get to just one young mind and the light goes on and they start talking to their parents or want to learn more about the PT's and their role in the Second World War, I've done my job for the day! It's a fantastic feeling that I just can't describe in words here!
Thanks for letting me share this!
Frank Ryczek, Jr.
HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!
YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!
Posted By: FRANK | Posted on: Feb 28, 2008 - 8:46am
Total Posts: 349 | Joined: Oct 7, 2007 - 2:09pm
Hey CJ-
I have seen the picture of your PT boat after that dud torpedo rammed right through the bow . The picture is Frank Johnson's book of PT Action of WWII. It's a fantastic book! it's an amazing shot!
Thanks Frank Ryczek
Modeler/ Friend RON 10 PT -169
HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!
YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!
Posted By: FRANK | Posted on: Feb 28, 2008 - 8:51am
Total Posts: 349 | Joined: Oct 7, 2007 - 2:09pm
I discovered that the location of theday cabin hatch in the kit was wrong so I had to put a plug in it after I had glued the day cabin roof in place. luckily the hatch covers most of it. I have to fit the hatch but it is white glued in place for the photos. I also finished adding the deadlights and fit a support for the SO radar. I posted 4 photos in the album. Here is one:
[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/65524/MHFUN-63531792-DSCN0230_292.JPG[/image]
Posted By: ducati650 | Posted on: Mar 2, 2008 - 4:50pm
Total Posts: 450 | Joined: Feb 19, 2007 - 10:01am
Frank;
Good for you!!!!! I comend you on you work with your local school system... BRAVO ZULU to you!
I had just moved down to Virginia with my parents and i was going to Private school when the kid next door, who was going to public school said his teacher was teaching them that the south won the civil war!!! This was 1978!
Now I am 44 years old and I am completely dumbfounded by how much stuff they just pass over in the public school system today. I am so glad I had a father who was in World War Two, who was an officer in Naval Intelligence(3rd Naval District) who wa wire tapping/bugging and safe cracking Japanese and German establishments in NYC, who walked on Omaha Beach as a Beachmaster( two weeks after D-Day), Later he was transfered to Uderwater sound school and then to the UDT demolition school at Maui, and who later went to deliver reinforcing/replacement Marines at Kwajalein,Truk, Enewetok, Tinian, Siapan, Guam, and Okinawa. He retired in 1970 as a LCDR USNR (Ret.). Because of Dad at an early age I was reading history books. My uncle wa in the 77th Inf Div in the Phillipines, My brother was a radarman on a DD off Korea. The first book I really read was Flying Fortress by Edward Jablonski. The first model I made at age 7 was PT 109. I guess now I was fortunate because I was surrounded by World War Two, Heck, even one of my Dad's co-workers at the New Yok Telephone Company,and one of his best friends was on "THE SHIP THAT WOULD NOT DIE" The U.S.S. Laffey DD-724, the ship tha was attacked by 22 kamakazes off Okinawa in April 1945.
Keep up the good work, Frank, in MY humble opinion our schools are focusing on too much crap, and not focusing on the things that really make this country great and the best country to live in on the planet.
Charge on my friend and never give up!
Take care,
TED
P.S. If this offends anyone reading this forum sorry...my excuse....24 years(12 years in NAVSPECWAR) in the Navy, just back from another deployment last month, and still going strong! KATN HTWATTD GOD BLESS AMERICA!
Posted By: TED WALTHER | Posted on: Mar 2, 2008 - 7:15pm
Total Posts: 3059 | Joined: Oct 16, 2006 - 7:42am
Right on, Ted!
I made the bullnose tonight:
[image]http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-11/65524/HDSDE-95962540-DSCN0235_297.JPG[/image]
Frank,
I will be in JAX the week of March 17. I would love to buy you a beer.
Ed
Posted By: ducati650 | Posted on: Mar 2, 2008 - 7:29pm
Total Posts: 450 | Joined: Feb 19, 2007 - 10:01am
FRANK R I KNOW FROM WHENCE YOU ARE COMING. I WAS INVITED TO SPEAK TO A "FEW" CHILDREN AT A LOCAL COMMUNITY CENTER ABOUT MY GTROWING UP YEARS AND THE PT BOATS.I MADE PHOTOCOPIES OF SOME THING AND PT BOAT PLANS.IT WAS ONLY SUPPOSED TO BE SHORT TALK OF ABOUT 15 MINUTES.QWHEN I GOT STARTED ABOUT THE BOATS THEY WOULDN.T LET ME STOP.QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS.THEY WERE SO HUNGRY FOR ALL THE INFORMATION THEY COULD GET ABOUT WW2 AND THE BOATS.THEY ASKED ME TO COME BACK AGAIN AND TALK "OFF THE CUFF".THOSE CHILDREN SOAKED UP INFORMATION AS FAST AS I COULD GIVE IT.I ALSO HAVE 2 GRANCHILDREN THAT WROTE ESSAYS ABOUT "GRANDAD" AND THE PT BOATS.MY GRANDAUGHTER TITLED IT "MY HERO".YOU CAN IMAGUINE HOW THAT MADE ME FEEL.THERE WERE ALSO ADULTS AT THE CENTER AND THEY COULD NOT THANK ME ENOUGH FOR TALKING WITH THEM AND THE CHILDREN.IT SEEMS LIKE THEY NO NOTHING ABOUT "THE OLD TIMES./
c
C.J. WAS IT AT RENDOVA,GREEN OR TREASURY THAT THE BOATS MOORED ALMOST UP ON THE BEACH UNDER THE TREES FOR CAMOFLAGE I CAN,T REMEMBER WHICH?
earl richmond
Posted By: EARL RICHMOND | Posted on: Mar 2, 2008 - 7:43pm
Total Posts: 319 | Joined: Oct 8, 2006 - 1:50pm
Earl: It was Treasury where we tied up under the trees. They were huge trees with limbs 8" - 10" in diameter overhanging the water 20 feet or more. The water was deep close to shore. We tied up to the limbs which kept the boat off the bank. At Treasury each boat did their own cooking. We had two tents set up on shore and had a field gas propane range and a drum cut in two for stoves. We operated with Ron 9 and Commander Kelly. We moved there after the the Vella La Vella base was abandoned due to the disasterous fuel dock fire which killed two Ron 19 base force men and destroyed PT 239. We were only at Treasury from December 15th,1943 until December 28th when our 242 boat was shot up by Jap barges and we were sent to Tulagi for repairs and new Mk 13 torpedoes. At Green we tied up at bouys anchored out from the dock. It was too shallow along the shore to tie up.
C. J. Willis
Posted By: CJ Willis | Posted on: Mar 3, 2008 - 9:31am
Total Posts: 464 | Joined: Nov 5, 2006 - 5:02pm
Thank you Ted and Earl-
One of the "best" seminars displays of my diorama took place at Baker County High School in Nassau County here in Florida. I was invited to show my display to High School Jr. ROTC Air Force Cadets.
When I pulled up to the school I had absolutely no clue as to where I was headed. A spiffed out Jr. cadet approched my van and said, "Excuse me sir, I'm Cadet so and so, and I was on the lookout for your white van. Please follow me, Sir!"
He led me to the back door of the class room where at 6:30 AM sharp the class was already waiting for me to unload the van which was loaded to the roof with diorama sections. As I popped the hatch, one youngster told me, "Please, sir, we were told and further instructed by our Commander NOT to let you unload the van yourself! We"ll handle it from here!" WOW!!!
My wife Lori and I were stunned to say the least! I instructed the class of perhaps 16 or so and they told me to go inside the class room and advise them where each section was to go! Talk about the royal treatment!
The Commander came in and introduced himself to me and I told him I never had so much help at any one time like I did here. " It's all part of the lesson, Mr. Ryczek", the Commander told me.
Part of my display includes a simulated "dog-fight" between a Marine F4U Corsair and a Jap Zero models in 1/32 scale. These models are attached to wires and a acrylic rod that then attached to a battery rotisserie unit located under one section of the diorama. When I turned on the unit, you could have heard a pin drop!
At 7:15 the bell sounded and I was introduced to the class! At that precise moment these cadets all rose out of their seats and snapped to attention and sulated me! MY GOD IN HEAVEN, I NEVER FELT SO PROUD IN ALL MY LIFE!
My lecture started with just how and why I created my diorama and the all important fact that these PT's played in helping to win the war in the South Pacific. These kids hung on every word! I then mentioned that my diorama is a memorial to all of the brave men who served aboard the Islands and moreso the PT's. I had these kids in the palm of my hand!
After about an hour I opened up the floor to questions, not knowing how learned these kids were when it came to WW II military aircraft!
One cadet piped up and said, "Sir, I really love the way you displayed the model aircraft! The Corsair model, is it a type A , or a type B class?"
I was stumped by a 16 year old kid!! I told him honestly that I had no idea!
The class bell rung and I had a free period. I spoke with the Commander and told him how embarassed I was not knowing the answer! He told me this kid is an expert on every type of warbird that ever flew in both the European and Pacific wars. He then went on to say, "These kids are really sharp, Frank. After all, they are Air Force cadets, remember?'"
At 4th period I had some of the kids from 1st period but I didn't know what to expect! These kids were receiving their new ranks and awards and Iwas there to see it first hand! Man these kids made me proud that day.
At 6th period I had a class of all new cadets and it was just like the first period, very sharp, very smart and very polished!
At the end of the school day, I told my wife that we may as well start packing up as we had a long ride home. Just then, as they must have been reading our minds came all the cadets and I didn't lift a finger as they loaded up the van the same way they unloaded it. A young girl approached me and handed me a card signed by each and every cadet present that day. I'll NEVER forget that day as long as I live! I lived out my dream to be a history teacher for a day! Yep, I was bustin' buttons off my shirt for a long, long time after that, believe you me!!
Thanks for letting me share this little tidbit of mine!
Frank Ryczek, Jr.
Modeler/Friend RON 10 PT 169 " ZEBRA SNAFU "
HIGH TIDES ALWAYS!
YOUR FRIEND THROUGH SCALE SHIP MODELING AND PT BOAT HISTORY!
Posted By: FRANK | Posted on: Mar 3, 2008 - 1:08pm
Total Posts: 349 | Joined: Oct 7, 2007 - 2:09pm
Just returned from Arizona where the baseball was great and the weather was beautiful.
Back to the original subject of modeling. This is not a new model. I've been consutructing this boat on and off for many years now. When completed it will be Dick Keresey's PT-105 at the time of the 109 sinking. As you can see it has been refit for radar. I still need to add things like a .50 cal on the foredeck and lots of little pieces in the finishing drawer. Here are some photos of her. This is a major kit bashing of the Bluejacket 1/48 PT Boat. All the pieces and sub-assemblies are pretty much ready to install now with only a few exceptions. I learned about photoetch and casting resin in this project. I'm currently in the process of correcting some of the torpedo tube mounts by building up the bases. After cutting my teeth building depression rails for the 1/72 kit I'm also ready to solder them up for this boat.
This is the first time I've put the pictures of her out for anyone to see. My only hang up on this boat is if I should paint her green like the 109 or gray as Mr. Keresey remembers her. Feel free to try and persuade me.
Enjoy
Dave
[IMAGE]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/David_Waples/PT-105B.jpg[/IMAGE]
[IMAGE]http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/David_Waples/PT-105A.jpg[/IMAGE]
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Mar 3, 2008 - 8:29pm
Total Posts: 1679 | Joined: Jan 2, 2007 - 9:55pm
Nice. More photos please.
Posted By: ducati650 | Posted on: Mar 4, 2008 - 4:06am
Total Posts: 450 | Joined: Feb 19, 2007 - 10:01am
David
Wonderful job thus far on the boat. Of all the boats I have, 2 are grey in color. One of course is the original ELCO FACTORY MODEL made by Don Rosencrantz who worked at the Elco Naval Division during the War. The other is the Varney Model Kit, made by my friend and model builder San Pienkowski. Opps, I take that back. My HIGGGINS PT BOAT is grey in color ( How could I forget that ).
I am partial to the green color on the boats, and of course Cammo really makes the boat pop. I personally like the boats in green tones, as it seems to have been the norm for the Pacific Boats, and looks best. Only my opionion here dave. Bottom line, your choice. That boat would look good in my Exhibit. HERE WE GO AGAIN...
Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: Mar 4, 2008 - 4:07am
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am
This one is a very long way from being completed. There's something about a wood boat though. I can't think of what else to photograph either. As we get further down the line I'll post some more photos.
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Mar 4, 2008 - 5:39am
Total Posts: 1679 | Joined: Jan 2, 2007 - 9:55pm
That's a nice build you've got there. keep the photo's coming.
s.symonds
Posted By: muddyfields | Posted on: Mar 5, 2008 - 6:39am
Total Posts: 96 | Joined: Mar 1, 2007 - 7:09am
Some of you modelers have been working on projects but have not shared them with the group. How about putting some of your works in progress on the Board, or share some completed models. I would love to see some work...............
Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: Nov 8, 2008 - 12:13am
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am
My does time fly when some knucklehead decides I'm going to take on remodeling two bathrooms at the same time.. oops, that's me! I'm working on a tribute base to hold the 109 model I built. It's made of maple and I'm working with a laser engraver to do some art work I put together. I just did this for the LCVP tribute I built for my wife's late uncle and it turned out great.
The 109 remains sealed up waiting for paint. I hope to have this one completed in the next 4-6 weeks. If the economy keeps going south I may have more time to work on models.
Stay tuned and I promise to post some photos before too long.
Dave
David Waples
Posted By: David Waples | Posted on: Nov 8, 2008 - 5:22am
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David,
Contact me offsite, thank you..
Garth
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