The final scene will be (hopefully) close to the box art with added explosions and chaos for effect. Well, that’s the idea anyway.
I’ll attempt to make the crew using these kits, which will probably require some customising for hand positions particularly. The field gun I’ve had lying around since the 80’s, waiting to come in handy for something.
The PT-596 etch set, I had in my collection so there are some common elements that will come in handy on the 109 in addition to the included PE.
Are you planning on a European scenario? The reason that I am asking is because the figures are not exactly dressed for a tropical clime and I don’t think the USN had access to British 25 pounders in the Solomon Islands.
Actually the Pacific theatre. I should have mentioned, I’m using the basic torsos from the Tamiya 25 pounder kit as a basis for making JFK and the crew. I was watching a doco on these boats, and they were right down the navy food chain, so no neat uniforms or anything.
Good idea, I’m glad you clarified that. It makes perfectly good sense now.
No problems, thanks.
The “field gun” on the 109 was a US 37mm anti-tank gun.
Looking forward to following your WIP. Thanks for posting it.
Hey Ray, look three posts above yours…
That field gun would look pretty mean on there. But like I said, I’m just going to make casts of the figure torsos from that kit.
In the Mediterranean there were modifications to the the PT boats because of certain factors. Torpedoes were started and slid off the side. I believe because of closer ranged the blank round flash could be seen from tube launches. The 37mm anti-tank gun found its way on to many PT boats in all theaters. The USMC had lots of them, so did the Army. The gun would get damaged but could still fire. The issue was not a problem on the PT boat because it was in a fixed position. It had more “umph” than the 20mm cannon. The AP round could actually damage many of the enemy light units they came up against. I read an article about this once, I don’t have a copy if I remember I’ll look it up.
Some updates… 
Nice looking boat !
How long it is ?
Thanks!.I think it’s about 55-60cm long. I don’t have the exact length at the moment.
It’s 1/35th scale. The class was 80 feet long. 80 * 12 = 960 inches, divide that by 35 and you get 27.42" or about two and a quarter feet.
And that’s why I’m running out of space to store these models 
I saw some thing about Italeri releasing PT109 crew figure set this year.
Don’t know much more than that. How many, combat or relaxed poses ??
If it’s like the elco crew it might be a generic looking crew, which would be fine anyway.
Update-Masked up the windows and primed the boat and torpedo tubes. 
