Rhino
Super Moderator
Didja now! My Impressed! Paint the boat white. The afterdeck is wood tan. Draw the winders on with a fine black Sharpie and be a Happy Guy with a finished SS Minnow model!I actually eyeballed it the other day.
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Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, 1941
- Thread starter Rhino
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You already painted it. I'll see if I can locate it again tomorrow. Planning on spending the day out there anyway, grass is cut and chores are done and Cindy has plans that don't require my presence. Who knows, maybe some paint will be spread on something.Didja now! My Impressed! Paint the boat white. The afterdeck is wood tan. Draw the winders on with a fine black Sharpie and be a Happy Guy with a finished SS Minnow model!
Rhino
Super Moderator
Addendum A to TLAR Tiki Bar instructions;
"STOP THE Presses! In a late breaking development, my friend and fellow ship modeler Carl Musselman of Back Aft Models has chosen to join the TLAR Micro Model Madness! See here Carl’s very intricate 1/700 boiler. Carl made this and wasn’t sure what to do with it.
I have an Idea!
I have his permission to include this in this kit. Such a thing could easily distill enough torpedo fuel to, well, Umm, Keep the PT Boat base torpedoes “fueled” ? See where I’m going with this?
If I told you it was for making moonshine liquor, some nice shiny new Ensign might get all worked up about Navy regulations and want to shut down this strategically critical piece of equipment.
Does the tank feed the boiler? Does the Boiler feed the tank? Where will you put such a thing to keep it out of sight? Won’t Old Leadbottom find out?
The answers to these and many other of Life’s persistent questions are up to YOU!"
Lt. Henry (Robert) Montgomery, John F. Kennedy, Lt. Cmdr. Quentin McHale, Lt. Cyrus Taylor. These personalities run through my mind when I think about PT Boats. God alone knows what else will end up in these sets.
"STOP THE Presses! In a late breaking development, my friend and fellow ship modeler Carl Musselman of Back Aft Models has chosen to join the TLAR Micro Model Madness! See here Carl’s very intricate 1/700 boiler. Carl made this and wasn’t sure what to do with it.
I have an Idea!
I have his permission to include this in this kit. Such a thing could easily distill enough torpedo fuel to, well, Umm, Keep the PT Boat base torpedoes “fueled” ? See where I’m going with this?
If I told you it was for making moonshine liquor, some nice shiny new Ensign might get all worked up about Navy regulations and want to shut down this strategically critical piece of equipment.
Does the tank feed the boiler? Does the Boiler feed the tank? Where will you put such a thing to keep it out of sight? Won’t Old Leadbottom find out?
The answers to these and many other of Life’s persistent questions are up to YOU!"
Lt. Henry (Robert) Montgomery, John F. Kennedy, Lt. Cmdr. Quentin McHale, Lt. Cyrus Taylor. These personalities run through my mind when I think about PT Boats. God alone knows what else will end up in these sets.
Looks nice, the tank and boiler are used where?
Rhino
Super Moderator
Powerplant and distillery equipment for the South Seas Social Club set. With details of all 5 sets mixed in the same thread, It can be confusing.
Rhino
Super Moderator
These boats and nautical features are being molded as we speak. I ran out of RTV Activator, so I have to wait until my Reynolds Materials order arrives. The LCPL and LCPR with rubber UTD boat are for the Pontoon Floating Drydock PT boat Base accessory set.
I have NO idea what to do with all the islands. I upgraded the 1/700 USCG Island class WPB island.
The TLAR design team has been mute on their thoughts.
Gotta have islands to get lost on.
Rhino
Super Moderator
So often, you see a model ship on flat calm sea base, with no nautical scenery. If you want to show a vessel in motion, include something stationary? Like the clouds Howard Hughes waited for to shoot the flying scenes in Hells Angels.
Unless....................
Purely medicinal.
It might be pretty hard to get lost on these dinky islands.
Unless....................
Purely medicinal.
Rhino
Super Moderator
So, we we talking about the PT Boat base set and how it got out of hand with 5 kits to make it complete. I mused aloud that the Mios Woendi base in 1944 had about 1,000 tall palm trees populating the island and the base facilities might be mostly invisible because of the tree canopy.
It was Happy Hour. I had my second traditional beverage in my hand.
Do you know what my sweet little Teresa said to me?
"How long will it take you to make all the palm trees, then?" with a sly smirk.
ME!? The guy than can be derailed by the most obscure 1/700 idea? The guy that never gives up on a project even when a new "Squirrel" pops in to my lubricated wheels of creativity! AS if she didn't know me at all!
(I WILL finish my Dad's Mustang. AND the 1946 Graf Zeppelin German Navy aircraft carrier. AND Ernst Udet's HE-280T "Horrible Heinkel" 1946 Navy Night fighter. AND the P-67B McDonnell Moonbat night fighter. Maybe not today.
)
For just about one second I earnestly considered my little woman's question. I turned to answer her, I could see she was quaking with mirth, with her hand over her mouth. I SEE HOW IT IS! She continued to laugh uproariously at what she considered a very funny thing to do to me with my model-brain spinning up with ANOTHER new model idea!
Rotten little shit!
www.misterart.com
Internet to the rescue!! 1 inch palms are almost 60 scale feet tall. MisterArt is based in Houston Texas, So I bought me some! (No, not 1,000 of them! Silly.) Yay! More American made products!!
I don't have to make things other already people do. Funny Wife! She continues to giggle at my discomfiture.
"How would you make all those? Would the trunks be separate from the fronds? It's a 'model', you put it together."
It was Happy Hour. I had my second traditional beverage in my hand.
Do you know what my sweet little Teresa said to me?
"How long will it take you to make all the palm trees, then?" with a sly smirk.
ME!? The guy than can be derailed by the most obscure 1/700 idea? The guy that never gives up on a project even when a new "Squirrel" pops in to my lubricated wheels of creativity! AS if she didn't know me at all!
(I WILL finish my Dad's Mustang. AND the 1946 Graf Zeppelin German Navy aircraft carrier. AND Ernst Udet's HE-280T "Horrible Heinkel" 1946 Navy Night fighter. AND the P-67B McDonnell Moonbat night fighter. Maybe not today.
)For just about one second I earnestly considered my little woman's question. I turned to answer her, I could see she was quaking with mirth, with her hand over her mouth. I SEE HOW IT IS! She continued to laugh uproariously at what she considered a very funny thing to do to me with my model-brain spinning up with ANOTHER new model idea!
Rotten little shit!
Wee Scapes Architectural Model Trees | MisterArt.com
These economical architectural model trees are already assembled.
Internet to the rescue!! 1 inch palms are almost 60 scale feet tall. MisterArt is based in Houston Texas, So I bought me some! (No, not 1,000 of them! Silly.) Yay! More American made products!!
I don't have to make things other already people do. Funny Wife! She continues to giggle at my discomfiture. "How would you make all those? Would the trunks be separate from the fronds? It's a 'model', you put it together."
Rhino
Super Moderator
Painting begins on kit 122C PT Boat Base Vehicles, Huts and Tents.
An Australian C30 Chevrolet truck has been added to the list of teensy PT boat base trucks.
An Opel Blitz German Army ambulance is also on Mios Woendi. Don't ask how the Opel truck got there. The new molds of the LCLP open top personnel boats worked just fine. The UDT LCPR with rubber raft for recovering US Navy frogmen cast nicely as well. Remember Monogram's 1/32 UDT boat kit? Like that, but MUCH smaller!
Most of the pictured boats go with the Pontoon drydock set. Almost any damaged small craft might be serviced and repaired by the resourceful sailors that work the 'dock.
The new box art and contents pictures will be revised with the full contents of the floating drydock kit.
Thanks for looking in again and again and again!
An Australian C30 Chevrolet truck has been added to the list of teensy PT boat base trucks.
An Opel Blitz German Army ambulance is also on Mios Woendi. Don't ask how the Opel truck got there. The new molds of the LCLP open top personnel boats worked just fine. The UDT LCPR with rubber raft for recovering US Navy frogmen cast nicely as well. Remember Monogram's 1/32 UDT boat kit? Like that, but MUCH smaller!
Most of the pictured boats go with the Pontoon drydock set. Almost any damaged small craft might be serviced and repaired by the resourceful sailors that work the 'dock.
The new box art and contents pictures will be revised with the full contents of the floating drydock kit.
Thanks for looking in again and again and again!
Heavens Eagle
Well-known member
So, we we talking about the PT Boat base set and how it got out of hand with 5 kits to make it complete. I mused aloud that the Mios Woendi base in 1944 had about 1,000 tall palm trees populating the island and the base facilities might be mostly invisible because of the tree canopy.
It was Happy Hour. I had my second traditional beverage in my hand.
Do you know what my sweet little Teresa said to me?
"How long will it take you to make all the palm trees, then?" with a sly smirk.
ME!? The guy than can be derailed by the most obscure 1/700 idea? The guy that never gives up on a project even when a new "Squirrel" pops in to my lubricated wheels of creativity! AS if she didn't know me at all!
(I WILL finish my Dad's Mustang. AND the 1946 Graf Zeppelin German Navy aircraft carrier. AND Ernst Udet's HE-280T "Horrible Heinkel" 1946 Navy Night fighter. AND the P-67B McDonnell Moonbat night fighter. Maybe not today.
For just about one second I earnestly considered my little woman's question. I turned to answer her, I could see she was quaking with mirth, with her hand over her mouth. I SEE HOW IT IS! She continued to laugh uproariously at what she considered a very funny thing to do to me with my my model-brain spinning up with ANOTHER new model idea!
Rotten little shit!
Wee Scapes Architectural Model Trees | MisterArt.com
These economical architectural model trees are already assembled.
Internet to the rescue!! 1 inch palms are almost 60 scale feet tall. MisterArt is based in Houston Texas, So I bought me some! (No, not 1,000 of them! Silly.) Yay! More American made products!!
"How would you make all those? Would the trunks be separate from the fronds? It's a 'model', you put it together."
Rhino
Super Moderator
Indeed! The Tiki Bar island should have at least one HUGE coconut palm! Point of navigation, perhaps? Shade for mariners conducting "business"? Treehouse look-out and ladder? Swivel guns? Scale 105mm recoilless rifle? (I made some). Pina Colada Day?
See what happens?! I do this to myself all the time.
See what happens?! I do this to myself all the time.
Rhino
Super Moderator
I am proud to introduce TLAR Models 1/700 PT Boat base accessory set 122D! I wasn't planning on adding any metal parts, but it seems fitting to include the radars and hoist pieces.
4 down, One more PT Boat base set left to finish painting and make instructions and box art for!
Duke Maddog
Well-known member
Nice! Beautiful job Chris!