Merit 1/48 Elco 80’ PT Boat Early Type Ended

[stikpusher]

Stik,

I would love to see some pictures of your PCF if you have any. What color did you paint her, Gray or Riverine Green? Also, what did you replace or enhance the weapons with, Model Master brass barrels or something else?

Steve

After what I could find online at the time, I ended up using Navy Helo Gray, 36081 as the base color. I replaced the kit .50s with some Verlinden ones. Then I dressed up the 81mm mortar a bit with some drilling and filing and such. The kit really can be done up in the pilot house and such to shine with more time and effort than I put into mine.

Here is link to the thread on here with my finished build. Nothing too fancy.

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/7/t/142594.aspx

Stik,

if you’re thinking of picking one of these up, I’m not sure which I might recommend. I like the lines of the earlier boats because they remind me of the movies “They Were Expendable” and “PT 109”. However, the later boats were loade for bear and have the look of ‘Don’t Mess With Me’. Either kit is really nice which is one of the reasons why I bought both!

Yes, I would love to see a kit of the PTs used in the Phillipines from the “They Were Expendable” period. But I do love the late war bristling with assorted weapons look as well. Like the ones that were at Surigao Strait. I will have to look at these Merit kits, as I did not even know about them until your thread here.