[WIP] Playable PT-109 Elco MTB

[Charlielima]

Originally Posted by woofiedog

Yes the S-Boat does have a advantage over the plywood Elco & Higgins boats... but sometimes it's the skipper at the helm that counts the most. LoL

Bitchin' pic Woofie.
A PT chasing me with the 40 mike mike on the bow, and the 2 twin 50 cals Barking would quite likely " End my patrol"
CL

[cgjimeneza]

just wondering if it will be done in time for xmas....



Carlos

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by cgjimeneza

just wondering if it will be done in time for xmas....



Carlos

Which year? Sorry, we haven't gotten any further with it. It kinda slipped through the cracks in my head and sqk's been busy with work.

[cgjimeneza]

then how about we write it down for easter next year???
will make a note on my Palm calendar

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Which year? Sorry, we haven't gotten any further with it. It kinda slipped through the cracks in my head and sqk's been busy with work.

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by cgjimeneza

then how about we write it down for easter next year???
will make a note on my Palm calendar

Okeydoke, I'll write it on my Palm calendar, too, if I can find room

[cgjimeneza]

point and game to the gentleman!

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Okeydoke, I'll write it on my Palm calendar, too, if I can find room

[Hylander_1314]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

Great videos! They left a few things out though. At one point it mentions the British wanting the boats as well, when in fact the Royal Navy invented the Motor Torpedo Boat, and had their own in production at the time. When playing German in the Atlantic the MTBs met should mostly be the 73-foot Vosper. Also, the ELCO boats were based on a powerboat design by an Englishman, Hubert Scott-Payne.
http://www.steelnavy.com/GMSElco77.htm

I think there's some confusion on the hulls. Yes, the frame was mahogany planking, and the hulls were mahogany shaved into veneer, then glued together to make a heavy sheet, but isn't that what plywood is?

Actually the hull sides, bottom, and upper decking were a composite laminent of wood planks, not "sheet" running perpendicular, with a layer of aircraft linen sandwiched between them. The planks were cut from African and Honduran mahoganey. In this sense, it wasn't "plywood" in the idea some folks may have, as plywood makes one think of the wood sheets that can be bought at the local lumber yard or home center.

I like the old ELCO Boats, as the Chriscraft plant up the river from my great grandparents house built them, and there were a couple old hulks left from the war in the marshy area that you could get up on, but had to be careful on them, for any rotted wood you could fall through.

I wish they were still there, but the latest aerial photos shows that nature has reclaimed the area. What fun it would be to restore one of them, and finish out like the early PT-103 class, from late 42 to 43, before they were turned mostly into barge busters.

[sqk7744]

Originally Posted by cgjimeneza

then how about we write it down for easter next year???
will make a note on my Palm calendar

Easter huh? hmm guess that's coming r'ound the corner ?

[clayton]

Wow... This caught my eye...

I'm really looking forward to this 'mod'. PT Boats have much greater potential in the Pacific, than E Boots in the Atlantic.

Great job!

[linerkiller]

Originally Posted by clayton

PT Boats have much greater potential in the Pacific, than E Boots in the Atlantic.

I'm not sure about this...Compare the S-Boot successes in the Med, Channel,Baltic and Black Sea with PT boats successes in the pacific...
http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/seekrieg...t/serf-ost.htm
Pt boats in the pacific were barge busters...yeah, they had hard times in the Guadalcanal area in '42/'43...but the pacific ocean was too large for these small boats, their main role there was to interrupt the micro-traffic of microscopic barges and boats around Japanese-held small archipelagoes...like during the new-guinea campaign...I don't even think that they sank something with torpedoes there

[cgjimeneza]

Originally Posted by sqk7744

Easter huh? hmm guess that's coming r'ound the corner ?

ok. Easter seems to be gone.... will be generous... how about Haloween????

[Karle94]

I am having problem with the control of the ship. After some time cruising at high speed the boat starts to zick zack. Any help would be appreciated

[Bubblehead1980]

so does this work yet, well enough to play? Enable JSGME? where is the link with the latest version.

[keltos01]

Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980

so does this work yet, well enough to play? Enable JSGME? where is the link with the latest version.

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/down...do=file&id=612

keltos

[Bubblehead1980]

Tried this out, had a lot of fun.No real bugs or anything, just needs some adjustments.

US torpedos instead of German, is a US boat afterall.

Need more than person on deckwatch when not a battle stations...deck is empty during normal run.Free cam so can roam the deck and interior more.Other than that, pretty cool so far, running around at 40+ knots is a blast, no surface ship can really touch you, moving too fast.