Probably the best designed PT boat of WW2.
Its a cheap kit. Around $20. My reason for picking it up was to do the cool splotched camo jobs. Then I did a little research and found that the S-100s were only painted Grey.
Oh well. Not much spent. So no big deal.
The model goes together well. There are a few errors, such as wrong type of props. But a good weekend model. WEM makes a PE set for around $40-50. If I was going to go all out, I'd replace the guns. Plenty of 1/72 scale armor examples that are way better detailed. New props. Uses the same as a U-Boat and get the WEM and Eduard PE sets.
But the wife gives me "The look" when I start talking about spending $100-150 on a $20 kit. So this one is out of the box
The only thing I added was shoebox paper to cover the railing. The crews used tarps that way to keep the spray down. Bet that was important on those winter nights in the North Sea.
The WEM set duplicates it. I went cheap.
May buy a flag. Being a Revell of Germany model, they cannot include that evil Swastika. The flag looks stupid with the big white circle in the middle
First pic of what I wanted to do. But its a S-38 type boat Not a S-100
What I built instead.
This is boat S-204 from the 4th Flotilla based in Den Helder Northern Holland in 1945
Its a cheap kit. Around $20. My reason for picking it up was to do the cool splotched camo jobs. Then I did a little research and found that the S-100s were only painted Grey.
Oh well. Not much spent. So no big deal.
The model goes together well. There are a few errors, such as wrong type of props. But a good weekend model. WEM makes a PE set for around $40-50. If I was going to go all out, I'd replace the guns. Plenty of 1/72 scale armor examples that are way better detailed. New props. Uses the same as a U-Boat and get the WEM and Eduard PE sets.
But the wife gives me "The look" when I start talking about spending $100-150 on a $20 kit. So this one is out of the box
The only thing I added was shoebox paper to cover the railing. The crews used tarps that way to keep the spray down. Bet that was important on those winter nights in the North Sea.
The WEM set duplicates it. I went cheap.
May buy a flag. Being a Revell of Germany model, they cannot include that evil Swastika. The flag looks stupid with the big white circle in the middle
First pic of what I wanted to do. But its a S-38 type boat Not a S-100
What I built instead.
This is boat S-204 from the 4th Flotilla based in Den Helder Northern Holland in 1945
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