Potential 1/48 Higgins PT kit

[alross2]

I know most of you folks are "stick and string" enthusiasts but am curious if anyone is interested in more modern vessels.  Rather than watch TV in the evenings I've been slowly working on a potential 1/48 kit of a WW2 Higgins 78' PT boat.  Structurally, it will be like most of the later kits I've done for BlueJacket - laser-cut planked hull built with the Hahn method, resin and britannia parts, etc.   It will be an early boat with tubes and can be built as either a Mediterranean or Pacific boat.

Edited June 18 by alross2

[Azzoun]

What about making it RC capable?

[Nirvana]

2 hours ago, Azzoun said:

What about making it RC capable?

With working tubes!

 

[Wawona59]

Continuing with the WW2 theme, what about an LST with functional front doors that could be posed open or closed.  You might even be able to attract some armor modelers to buy an LST kit.

 

 

Edited Thursday at 04:22 AM by Wawona59

[Red Rhino]

Hi Al: I think it would be a very interesting project. I’d love to see a display of the Higgins and the Elco. I bet the Higgins would be very popular with the WWII Museum down in New Orleans. I believe they have one on display.

Dave

[alross2]

A bit further along on the potential 1/48 scale Higgins kit. The hull is planked and filled and I've adjusted the laser drawings a bit. The deck you are seeing is the subdeck. It will be covered with a 1/32" ply deck that has the positions of the primary components (deck house, engine room hatch, etc.) lasered onto it.  I'm toying with the idea of including enough materials to do any of the three different classes.  There were two slightly different hulls.  The initial hull form was slightly tunneled aft while the later hull was flat aft as they discovered the tunnel caused drag.  There were three different pilot houses as well.  We'll see what happens as I play around with this one.