US Navy Swift Boat (PCF)...Building the base too!

[yak face]

That looks well used matey! The damaged rubbing strips and repaired patches look great , cheers tony

[Guest]

Your weathering is spot on love the patched hull


Roger

[flyjoe180]

Just stunning Ron. Awesome work all round, that has dirtied up very well.

[Steve Brodie]

thats a very smart looking battered boat you have there, excellent stuff.

[Guest]

Vert very nice Ron I like it.


Scott

[monica]

superb,just love the weathering,very well done,I do real like it,


plus all the add in make so much of a differences,

[Guest]

You wanted some figures Ron?
Here you go:


http://propaganda-kompany.com/Accessoires-Figurines/90245-us-vietnam-infantry-for-m113-a1-3-fig.html


... a real bargain at just under £60 each!!!! So how many sets do you want?

Looks like they are for the master moulds rather than the figures so you could build an entire Marine Expeditionary Force for £60 !

[spanner570]

Thanks all for your excellent posts on the finished boat.


Derek, thanks for the links, but they are the wrong era, and my meagre altering skills would produce a few cat's ar**'*, but thanks for your help nonetheless.


daveb257 - Still way above my budget, and I would still have to buy all the stuff to make the figures.......Any observation regarding the boat? It's always nice to get feedback and suggestions, good or bad, about our builds.


Cheers,


Ron

[monica]

you adding in lance on his skis and a guy grooving away to mick as well,?

[spanner570]

Monica, I'm sure they would be too busy 'doing other things' to have time for such activities.


Here is an update folks...


I've started the basework.


First up, a hole for the boat and a bit of the wake chopped out. The base is a bit of painted 1/2" chipboard from an old kitchen unit.






Some polystyrene packing shore line stuck on.






The boat plonked on for tries....






I came up with the idea for a shack by the shore line - complete with landing stage. I made this from my usual polystyrene Pizza base and scribed the boards directly on to it. The roof is thin card from an old receipt book. It looked fine, but then I realised the river would be tidal.......Numpty!






So I cut off the jetty and on to stilts went the shack! The tin sheets are cooking foil. The vertical boarding is polystyrene. The supports are old BBQ sticks and the braces cut down coffee stirrers. The shack is painted with children's acrylics. I don't waste my 'good' paints on the bases.


















Here is the shack, nicely high and dry and placed on the river bank. The hole in the front is where the boat will sit.






That's it for this stage.


Thanks for looking,


Ron

[papa 695]

The boat looks super Ron and I'm liking the start of the base for it.

[spanner570]

Thanks Ian, I'm glad you like the boat, and are liking the start of the 'Watery bit'!

[Guest]

Lovely work so far Ron.


The shack looks really cool!

[monica]

stunning work on the old tin shack,,[ or should I,use this line, tin shack rusted,B52,s great song,]

painted with children's acrylics. I don't waste my 'good' paints on the bases.

thats what I use for all my bases and dio,work as well,they work fine,


this is looking great do real like the way you do,your dio,always a joy to watch come together,

Monica, I'm sure they would be too busy 'doing other things' to have time for such activities.

you never seen apocalypse now,? one of my mosted liked movie,

[Guest]

Like how this is coming together Ron, great ideas to store for later.