One of the main guns is ready now. Before I can glue it to the deck I have a question, how was the deck made?
When I search on the internet, I find foto's of pt boats where you can't see the wooden deck because it's painted. But I can only see
foto's of model pt boats with an unpainted deck. Do you now if there where pt boats with an unpainted deck? Because that is more beautiful and I want to keep it scale.
Ah, now here I cheated a bit
The first ELCO 80ft PT boats were made with deck planking, but very soon they changed to plywood sheeting. So only the early ones would have plank lines.
At the factory they were finished in grey all over. So no PT boat that I know of would really have had a varnished wood deck. They would have been issued to squadrons in base grey, and then painted up in the approved colour for that theatre of operations. As has been said earlier, this would either be grey, white or green camouflage. The example boats that I have made have all got numbers indicating that they served in the Far East campaigns, so they would have been camouflaged in green.
However, I like a varnished deck, and I had handy cans of red and grey spray paint, so I just coloured the boats the way I liked. The deck was made by simply drawing lines on the balsa with a black biro, then varnishing the top. The biro makes a little groove in the balsa, so it looks like a plank. Here you can see me doing this with the Steam Launch - http://eezebilt.co.vu/IMG_2483.jpg
This is, however, not scale.
Some colour information is available here:
http://www.ptboatworld.com/PT_Boat_Info/colorschemes.htm
http://www.ptboatworld.com/Drawings-2010-03/Drawings-2010-03
http://www.pt103.com/Ships_2_Colors.html
When I search on the internet, I find foto's of pt boats where you can't see the wooden deck because it's painted. But I can only see
foto's of model pt boats with an unpainted deck. Do you now if there where pt boats with an unpainted deck? Because that is more beautiful and I want to keep it scale.
Ah, now here I cheated a bit
The first ELCO 80ft PT boats were made with deck planking, but very soon they changed to plywood sheeting. So only the early ones would have plank lines.
At the factory they were finished in grey all over. So no PT boat that I know of would really have had a varnished wood deck. They would have been issued to squadrons in base grey, and then painted up in the approved colour for that theatre of operations. As has been said earlier, this would either be grey, white or green camouflage. The example boats that I have made have all got numbers indicating that they served in the Far East campaigns, so they would have been camouflaged in green.
However, I like a varnished deck, and I had handy cans of red and grey spray paint, so I just coloured the boats the way I liked. The deck was made by simply drawing lines on the balsa with a black biro, then varnishing the top. The biro makes a little groove in the balsa, so it looks like a plank. Here you can see me doing this with the Steam Launch - http://eezebilt.co.vu/IMG_2483.jpg
This is, however, not scale.
Some colour information is available here:
http://www.ptboatworld.com/PT_Boat_Info/colorschemes.htm
http://www.ptboatworld.com/Drawings-2010-03/Drawings-2010-03
http://www.pt103.com/Ships_2_Colors.html
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