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[Backerther]

Cosmetic process is now being under way firmly and I made trimming work of the deck edge around the hull as seen below.
The boat has been becoming a simulated patrol boat of JCG by the typical tri-color scheme.
This trim works have made the hull looked tidier and crispier, haven't it.?
 

[Backerther]

I'm so happy to post here the following pics of the boat with insignia on the freeboard.!
From today, she has literally become a simulated Japan Coast Guard's patrol boat with a high-speed capability against suspicious and unknown boats especially/frequently observed in the Japan Sea..??!!

With these insignia, this patrol boat model looks a bit scale like boat than ever before.. ♪～♬～♩～(^^♪
Needless to say, design of insignia and its position are my own design.
For your information, Japan Coast Guard is formally designated " Japan maritime safety agency" which does not sound common
in the world, and hard to understand compared with Japan Coast Guard. 

[swiftdoc]

Looking great, Kiyo. Is that vinyl lettering?

[Backerther]

That's right, Arno.!
As you know well, this kind of lettering is so easy to apply and to remove when necessary to re-apply another lettering for better
looks.
I am supposed to change the present letterings to new ones like an actual boat as seen below.

You have a lot of famous manufactures of this lettering in your country. I used to often use German-made letterings in the past
which were so nice as compared with Chinese-made ones.

Next summer project will be this kind of water-jet patrol boat of JCG using Lindberg PT-109 1/32.
If possible, water jet thrusters will be equipped with reversing buckets as your Shannon.
But, I did not feel necessary to get my PT109 jet MTB equipped with the reversing buckets at all on the water actually....

[Backerther]

At the end of the month, my high-speed patrol boat has come up here to this level rapidly like this fast boat...
Although this is currently a RC boat, originally a pla-model by blood and thus it is easy to assemble such brief superstructures as MTB.    That's why I love to build the pla-model MTB which is so kind to pensionary old man like me...   while it could easily be a great runner on the lake and play the RC operation right away in different appearance born from the same hull.
I wish I could convert Lindberg PT109 to a water jet high speed patrol boat of JCG under the tri-color scheme enabling it to run like the MTB jet boat or JCG's actual boat as in the above pics of yesterday...

[Backerther]

The mast has to be modernised a bit to meet the post-war day's vessel...
The simple mast of PT109 was converted a bit briefly to a small JCG's patrol boat with some modern electronic equipment as in the pics.
No excessive detailing works is required for this level of RCed pla-model boat but needs rather scale realism of sailing on the lake for me.

[Backerther]

Well, I'll restart my posting after close to 2 week-long journey to the west Japan by my car for a sightseeing purpose that recorded 2,920km(1,825 miles) with an average fuel consumption of 15.8km(9.9miles)/liter by its 1,800cc engine.


I installed the mast permanently as seen below by which she looked a bit like a high-speed patrol boat from PT109 MTB.!?

[Martin (Admin)]

" ..... with an average fuel consumption of 15.8km(9.9miles)/litre by its 1,800cc engine.

What are you driving, a bulldozer?!?!?   

[JimG]

When you convert from metric that's around 45 mile per gallon, not too bad on a 1.8 litre engine.
Jim

[Backerther]

Thank you so much for your information about your style of conversion, JimG.!!


The pic shows my cordial salute to the lord of a certain local government when visiting sightseeing spots in his territory and he in a formal costume served a cup of tea in return cordially.!!??
Or am I expressing my apology on misunderstanding even to him politely?

[Martin (Admin)]

What are you driving, a bulldozer?!?!?   

When you convert from metric that's around 45 mile per gallon, not too bad on a 1.8 litre engine.
Jim

Sorry, you're quite right Jim.... mixing my pints, quarts, litres & bushels up!   
 
 

[Backerther]

More done like the national ensign on the mast and hand ropes?

[Backerther]

Crews for the boat are now ready to serve aboard their new high speed patrol boat of JCG.!!
They seem to have already exited to work aboard the boat and the trial run.!!
The day of long-waited high speed trial run is upcoming gradually. !! ♪～♩～(^^♪

[swiftdoc]

Looking good, Kiyo! I also put figures on each of my models, as I do not like ghost ships

[Backerther]

I quite think so, that's it.!!  Arno.           "No figures, no Rc boats"...??  That's what it is, indeed.
My Fencer 1/96 has been served busily by 70 crews and 21 Seafires still now.

Kiyo

[Backerther]

I just took some pics of the boat as commemoration of an intermediate completion for fun, although the boat in the box art and its built one are different each other, i.e, an MTB and a coast guard boat as well as their nationalities.

[Backerther]

A bit of work was done at bow deck to install a pair of handrails? by a piece of high gloss aluminum rod.
As the rails are so brilliant that I did not paint them white, though should be done as seen in real coast guard boats of JCG.

[jaymac]

                                                               You might find this of interest


                         https://offbeatoregon.com/1401c.pt-658-worlds-only-working-pt-boat.html

[Backerther]

Hi jaymac,
Thanks a lot for your information.
I have read it through and thought that a storm of applause has to be given to those who had made the best efforts to have
the ugly hulk recovered to be a highly new-born MTB as possibly seen in her active service days.


Kiyo

[Backerther]

I also made stanchions with plastic rods this time to which 1mm holes were drilled briefly by 3 in each one.
Please remember this coast guard boat is merely a conversion(not a modification) project from Lindberg PT109 to a simulated
Japan coast guard boat.   I am simply enjoying the conversion itself ignoring the details of the boat or whole itself unlike your style of serious model making works sticking to every inch/mm? of the parts.
I am rather interested in sailing performance of a boat as the RC model regardless of scale,semi-scale or non-scale boats.  

[Backerther]

And stanchions were set as seen below. A coast guard boat like feeling seems to have been generated gradually...
By the way, she is supposed to launch by the middle of June and I wonder she could be a good runner on the water as to run like
a high-speed JCG coast guard boat like my other fast boats ever commissioned....This is the most anxious point currently..

[Backerther]

A very tiny work is going on to this pla-model coast guard boat, though this national ensign is indispensable and has to be water-proof as this will be frequently soaked up on the water especially at higher speed.
However, if our local boating site would be much much smaller, I would never necessitate to run her so fast as to generate water spray as I have been doing so far... If slowly run on the lake like a tug here, the operation would be sooo tedious taking lots of time to go round the boating course in so large an area lying in front of me.

Seeing is believing with pics and/or videos.!!

[Backerther]

And a minor detailing work still continues on and on...
It's normally about the time to make a first high-speed sailing, judging from this level of hull profile..
Normally in this season here in Japan, rainy, cloudy and a bit windy days are continuing that disturb the trial run..
Yes, it's a provoking season nowadays really for Rc boating, but but and but the weather is so meaningful for the agriculture of rice which
has not been supplied sufficiently among most Japanese which has become a major political issue in the diet currently..     A 5kg(11 pounds) pack of rice was about 2000Yen(13.9USD) or so while is about 4300Yen in a year or so.!!
"A Japanese people are starving for rice" is not an exaggeration to some extent.

[Backerther]

The next detailing is this rescue boat that is to be set on stb side under the derrick.

[Backerther]

And I set the boat at stb side as in the pics.
I currently do not have any ideas of what to do next for this fast pla-model RC boat.
I have to try to find some suitable days to be compromised for the trial run actually on the water.
So far as this is the winter project, I have to fully terminate this project with success, not postponing it meaninglessly...


I installed nearly all the fittings except a superstructure, handrails and a ventilator with double-sided adhesive tape just in case they should need to relocate, replace and remove in due course of time.