Eezebilt PT Boat

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

The kit is a bit expensive for what you get. 1 x Mk 8 torpedo, 1 x No13 torpedo, 1 x radar mast, 1 x Bofors, 1 x life raft, 1 x 20mm oerlikon, 2 x lifebelts, 1 x anchor, plus some photoetch.

The Academy kit has 3 x 30mm and 3 x 50mm machine guns, May be easier to convert these .

Tim

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

A few more pictures of the present progress. For a change I have made up the guns from the conversion kit and altered a torpedo, so I have 2 about the same size. The mast should fold if I can get it right. Just thinking about having a try at making the twin guns for the tubs next.

Tim

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Is that seat on the Bofors facing the right way? Looks back-to-front to me…

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Here's a picture of a Bofors on the back of a PT boat…

**LINK**

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

I have twiddled the elevation wheel on one of those. Its amazing how light the controls are and how quick the thing is to train and elevate. Ashley

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Whoops! At least I got them both wrong! That's a job for tomorrow!

Tim

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

Posted by ashley needham on 05/08/2017 18:35:39:

I have twiddled the elevation wheel on one of those. Its amazing how light the controls are and how quick the thing is to train and elevate. Ashley

I have fired one (with blanks) from the deck of a minesweeper at a pair of Meteors doing a dummy attack off Malta. Though I was only 16 at the time, I couldn't move it fast enough to track a subsonic jet….

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

They should have either been retired years before that or given power controls, but that would have cost of course. Ashley

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Seats on Bofors now the correct way. Just started making props for the torpedoes as the ones in the conversion kit I found impossible to use. Must decide then whether to make 2 more torpedoes or use the depth charges that came with the kit.

Tim

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

A little more progress. Had a go at the twin machine guns, some lockers and 2 torpedoes. The hull has been partly sealed, the deck and the inside still to seal.

Tim

[Dodgy Geezer 1Participant @dodgygeezer1]

My, you can get a lot more detail on the boat at that scale!

Have you found the hull strong enough? I have never put a 1/16 ply skin on one of these boats, and am wondering how it turned out?

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Dodgy

I didn't think I could easily form the 1/16 th to the bow area and hold it against the balsa frame, so I used 1/32nd ply. This is being coated with epoxy. It seems to be strong especially the bow.

I have just started the other torpedoes by trying to make some paper tubes for the main cylinder then will make balsa fronts and rears.

I am attempting some rails around the top of the gun tubs.

Tim

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

A little more progress since August. Need to start the Camo pattern next and fix some of the lockers etc to the deck.

Tim

 

Edited By Tim Cooper on 01/12/2017 11:58:49

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Happy New Year

Not as much progress as I had hoped by this time but starting to fit fittings and crew.

 

Tim

Edited By Tim Cooper on 01/01/2018 12:43:47

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Tim. Looking less and less like an Eezebilt every time you post!! More like a Diffibilt…

​Ashley

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Thanks Ashley,

I have used 2 Italeri kits, one for the crew (all those years painting Warhammer figures helped with them) and one for detailing. Fore and aft gun, radar and life raft. The torpedoes are one from the kit, one altered from the kit and 2 from scratch. Twin machine guns are from scratch, the ammunition belts made from ribbon. Making a few deck cleats next and adding torpedoes. Nearly there.

Tim

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

PT Boat is now finished(?).

Motor Leopard 2826/17 and 30 A ESC installed. RX is Corona 40mhx synthesized one bound to a Futaba 6EX.

Just need some nice weather totry it on the water.

Tim

[ashley needhamParticipant @ashleyneedham69188]

Tim. Congratulations. you have shown what can be achieved by using a very simple hull. Well done. Looks very nice. Ashley

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Ashley

Thanks. Next on the bench is a DM Fairey Huntsman kit. At the same time I have an Italeri S100 to think about .

Tim

[Chris FellowsParticipant @chrisfellows72943]

As said, looks very nice.

Great about the Huntsman, we're staging a takeover of the Building Blogs with Fairies!

Chris

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Thanks Chris

Perhaps we need a collective noun for a group of Fairies?

Gathering or Ring or Milborn!

Tim

[Mark Jarvis 2Participant @markjarvis2]

A MILBORN it has to be, all power to the DAVE!!!!

Mark

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

A nice thought, guys – thanks. Shame about the spelling, though.

Dave Milbourn

[Tim CooperParticipant @timcooper90034]

Sorry Dave

My fault. I was trying to decide if there was an 'e' on the end.

Tim

[Dave MilbournParticipant @davemilbourn48782]

Don't worry too much about it, Tim. I wish I had a pound for every time it's been spelled incorrectly. My favourite version occurred when I was working for a chap called Don Cullen. On the same day that I had a letter addressed to David Milbaum he had one for Mr Cohen!

"Oy vey!"

DM

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