1971 Tamiya 1/72 Vosper Fast Patrol Boat Perkasa
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- 1971 Tamiya 1/72 Vosper Fast Patrol Boat Perkasa, Kit No. PT 7201.
Dad really loved tanks and planes, but he also enjoyed ships. The Perkasa was one of many he collected. Everything I’ve read says that it is an excellent, highly recommended kit that fits together in perfect Tamiya fashion and produces a beautiful model. This kit is motorized (no RE-36 motor included in this particular kit) although a later release was just a display model. There are 6 figures included. Also to be noted is the two color extrusion molded hull.
Description from Tamiya:
Vosper & Company was a British shipbuilding firm founded in 1871 and came to specialize in small craft. During WWII, the company became well known for their motor torpedo boat designs. After the war, Vosper continued to develop small fast patrol craft, one of which was the Brave Class. These boats were equipped with 3 Bristol Proteus engines, which powered the boat to top speeds of over 50 knots. They were armed with one 40mm Bofors cannon, two 20mmOerlikon cannons, and four torpedoes. The Perkasa was one of several Brave Class boats exported to the Royal Malaysian Navy.
I hope you enjoy this boat model from my father’s collection!
This was a quality kit i once got for Christmas.Really easy to build with lots of detail.
It really is a beautiful kit and it appears (from pictures I've seen online) to produce a beautiful model. I'm glad you got to build it!
This is a beautiful torpedo boat with motor ,I bought two of this.
I've looked at many built ones online and this kit does make a beautiful model. Surprisingly, Dad only has one of these. :-) Thanks for your comment!
Either motorized or static display, this is one impressive model kit!
Usually, when you post a video of a tank, I comment on the advanced features like separate track links and even separate tires for the roadwheels. But that bicolored extrusion molded hull is no less impressive; especially for 1971!
As an aside, the only other kit I know of with a single part molded in two colors to minimize painting is the 1/72 scale Bandai Darth Vader TIE Advanced X1 Starfighter, with solar wings molded in gray and black, with the gray parts in styrene and the black in ABS.
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The Perkasa is a great model. I'm really glad Dad has this one in his collection. And, of course, I had to look up the Darth Vader TIE Fighter. Very cool! Thanks for commenting!
Great kit. I have this in the stash with the Japan PT 15. Both are the motorized/static display kits. Nice thing that for each kit you have to modify them for motorization. That is you need to cut out the hole for the motor prop and the deck for the switch. So the static build looks like it is a static kit.
That's really interesting. I didn't know that. Dad never built this, but I found a video of a motorized one and it looked amazing out on the water. :-)
The British Royal Navy commissioned two of these ships. At the time (1960), they were the fastest naval ships in the world, capable of doing 52 knots, owing to the 3 gas turbine engines. The RN may not have been the largest by then, but top marks for innovation.
Thanks for the historical insight and for watching the video. :-)
That brings about the WW2 story where in the Mediterranean a British destroyer and an American destroyer were passing each other on the sea. The conversation via signal light went as follow:
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Captain of the American destroyer to Captain of the British destroyer. "How is the second largest navy in the world doing?"
Captain of the British destroyer to Captain of the American destroyer. "We are fine mate. How is the second best doing?"