Elco 80 Torpedo Boat PT-596 Italeri 1/35

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Beschreibung:

Elco 80 Patrol torpedo boats (PT boats) were versatile light attack vessels originally intended as anti-shipping weapons but often adapted to gun boat configurations and rescue duties. The wooden hulled craft were small, fast and well armed with a wide variety of weapons often modified in the field. The kit features an Elco 80' model (Electric Boat Company, 80' long x 20' 8" beam); the most numerous and largest variety built for the US Navy. PT-596 was an example of mid-war heavily armed boats posted to the South Pacific. The boat hosted an impressive array of weapons, including a single 40mm Bofors gun, a 37mm canon, 20mm Oerlicon, two twin 50 caliber machine guns, (4) MK-13 torpedoes and 5" rocket launchers. Unassembled plastic model kit when complete approximately 27" long

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(Bestell-Nr. 5602)

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Italeri's Fantastic PT-596 Torpedo Boat

Italeri's PT-596 Torpedo Boat is a huge model. At 1/35 scale, the hull length is 700mm (27.55"). The tooling to create the hull is the largest single part ever made by Italeri, weighing a massive 748 lbs. Italeri's skilled designers, historians and craftsmen pulled out all the stops. This gorgeous, first ever kit of this type from Italeri contains 322 parts molded in olive green plastic, plus one clear acetate sheet for the windows, one photoetched fret containing 86 parts for torpedo fins, rocket launchers sides, 37 MM. gun ammo conveyor, gunsights, main mast aerials, instruments panel, deck lights, and seven screws. The one piece hull and single piece deck are wonderfully detailed, as are the on-board twin 0.50 Cal. machine guns positions. Finely engraved Mk.13 torpedoes with side impulse launchers, containing 17 parts for each unit add to the spectacular realism, along with the detailed exhaust with silencers and rear smoke generator.
There's more. Highly detailed 20 MM. Oerlikon* and 37MM. M4 guns (the M-4's adapted from the P-39 aircraft) add to the armaments, with two fearsome, front multiple rocket launchers and reserve weapons boxes on the deck.
The propellers are accurately shaped, as expected in a model of this quality and precision. The meticulous in-depth exactness doesn't stop here; A 40 MM. dual role Bofors gun, (a kit within a kit, containing more than 50 parts is included too). Italeri has given the model builder a choice of open or closed positions for the various escape and entrance doors on the deck. The decal set is for the PT-596 that was in service in the very last days of WWII.
There's even a reference manual included with the history and actual photos of the full size boat. This magnificent model exemplifies Italeri's "Culture of Modeling".

*Wie kommen Oerlikon-Kanonen auf ein amerikanisches Torpedoboot? Erbstücke der Nazi-Marine?