JohnS

Sorry to hear about your hand Steve. Here's hoping you recover quickly & can get back to work on your big cat, John

Wow!

Nice to see you back at these Tomcats. Looking great!

Hey Steve. Good to see you back. I'll be posting this build on BM as well, once I get the photos on Flickr.

Looks awesome Darren. I like all your recent builds of different 'unique' aircraft.

Thanks guys. Here's one last photo showing the MTB & crew.

One last photo showing the MTB and crew.

One last project to complete this build - the crew. I'm not a big fan of adding figures to models as they seldom look realistic. In this case, I wanted to add a few crew figures to show the boat's scale & size. I raided the stash and gathered sailors from the Matchbox Corvette & Airfix Vosper MTB kits. I decided to use four figures that show the variety of uniforms worn on board the Canadian MTB's. I modified the arms of the two seaman figures so I could place them in different positions on the boat, & then added some paint & shading.

They look great, very realistic.

Another good looking update, Steve. Are the inscriptions on the bombs decals, or did you free hand?

Cool!

Love that HUD!

Thank you Silenoz! I'm glad you were able to follow the build.

Thanks Hajo! It was a fun build.

Here’s my scratch built 1/72 scale model of Royal Canadian Navy Type ‘G’ Motor Torpedo Boat 486, serving with the 29th MTB Flotilla during World War II. History: The Type ‘G’ MTB’s were built by the British Power Boat Co. at the BPB Hythe, Southampton boat yard. Originally, eight Type ‘G’ MTB’s were assigned to the Royal Canadian Navy 29th MTB Flotilla. Three additional boats were later added to the flotilla to replace MTB’s either damaged or sunk. The 29th Flotilla had a short & distinguished history in the English Channel, including action during the D Day invasion

Thanks guys! Well, I'm calling this build complete. I still have to paint a few crew members, but I've conscripted a couple of sailors from the Fairmile build for display purposes. The wood display base is 7" X 18"", finished with two coats of maple stain (it's a Canadian boat, you know ), and five coats of semi-gloss clear Varathane. The nameplate was made using PowerPoint, and printed on glossy photo paper. I'm using an old plexiglass display case/dust cover I made for a build back in the early '80's. That

I'm in the final planning stages for displaying the MTB model. I'm going to use an old plexiglass 5 sided case, from another model, for a dust cover. I've made the wood base to fit both this model & the dust cover. The base is stained & clear coated, and I'm waiting for it to dry. To add a little more interest to the MTB display, I'm thinking of using a photo of the actual MTB's as a backdrop to the model. This would be similar to what I did for my F-14B display. There, I enlarged a photo I took of F-14's in an NAS Oceana hanger for the backdrop, as shown be

Thanks for following along Hajo.

Another unique build. It's coming along nicely.

Looks great! I like that you have picked models for your builds that are different than most.

I took a break from sanding a wood display base for the model, and had a little fun with Photoshop. After my Fairmile D build was finished a number of years ago, I put that boat in virtual water. So, I thought I'd do the same with this build.

Here's the link to the photos - http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/Gal15/14401-14500/gal14465-Corvette-Symmonds/00.shtm I couldn't find a build thread either.

Thanks Slartibartfast & Silenoz, for your comments. Much appreciated.