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1:18 scale wwii tang or montor what would you pay for it.
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:19 am
by Black_Dragon_One
here is what i am think
there is a casting site that make 1:32 wwii Vietnam boat...
cost $200.00
i inquired about having them cast a 1:18 scale.
here is the reply
"The cost to Produce the two riverine boat in 1/18th scale is $10,000.00 each"
i was thinking if enough people would be interested we could bring the cost down to $400 25 guys
here is the pic to the item
http://www.masterpiecemodels.com/index. ... &Itemid=32
PGM MK-49 Monitor River Boat
* Inventory Number: MMVN006
* Shipping Weight: 8 lbs
* Price: $199.95
The Program 5 “Tango”
* 1/35th scale resin assembly kit
* Inventory Number: MMVN002
* Price: $199.95
here is another look at another site
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:39 am
by Black_Dragon_One
Re: 1:18 scale wwii tang or montor what would you pay for it
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:59 am
by pickelhaube
Black_Dragon_One wrote:here is what i am think
there is a casting site that make 1:32 wwii Vietnam boat...
cost $200.00
i inquired about having them cast a 1:18 scale.
here is the reply
"The cost to Produce the two riverine boat in 1/18th scale is $10,000.00 each"
i was thinking if enough people would be interested we could bring the cost down to $400 25 guys
here is the pic to the item
http://www.masterpiecemodels.com/index. ... &Itemid=32
PGM MK-49 Monitor River Boat
* Inventory Number: MMVN006
* Shipping Weight: 8 lbs
* Price: $199.95
The Program 5 “Tango”
* 1/35th scale resin assembly kit
* Inventory Number: MMVN002
* Price: $199.95
Heck at those prices I can do it for $400 each with out the $10,000 mark.
The LCM 6 would be 37.46 inches long 9.3 inches wide
The LCM 8 would be 49.13 inches long and 14 inches wide.
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:16 am
by Razor17019
Picklehaube or Grunt - Care to try your hand at making these craft?
What about a Vietnam PBR?
Posted: Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:24 pm
by aferguson
a monitor might interest me. They were 60 feet long, 17 feet wide and carried either guns or flame throwers. Program 5 zippo monitors would be the simplest. They lacked many of the guns and cage armour that the others had.
"The Vietnam Monitors were divided into two programs; program 4 would consist of the 40mm gun Monitors, while the later program 5 would entail the eight Monitor (H) Howitzer versions, and the six Monitor (F) Flamethrower models.[5] All of the Monitors were converted from WWII 56' long all steel Landing Craft Mechanized (LCMs) Mk 6's.[6] When completed, they were 60' long, 17' wide, with a draft of 3 1/2', had two screws driven by two Gray marine model 64NH9 diesel engines, could do 8.5 knots and were manned by usually 11 or more crewmen.[7] The fielded Monitors normally averaged about ten tons of armor on them."
So that's 40 inches by 11.4 inches in 1/18.