Motor Torpedo Boats

[Radish]

I bought the Revell 1/72nd Vosper RN MTB at Milton Keynes on Sunday.

With a lot of work (not least correcting the hull), it could be turned into an accurate Vosper-designed MTB
But NOT a RN one, as this design was built in the US, and was supplied to various navies including the USN and Soviet. So the kit is already a Whatif?

But I shall, of course, update further, possibly with a jet engine, possibly on skis or as a hydrofoil.

It could be in the markings/configuration of :

:wacko:German Nazi Planet Aegir, to accompany the ski-Bismark.
:huh:a "Rebel" MTB from the same planet, but obviously missiles rather than torpedoes!!
:lol:Pirate MTB
:banghead:Orkenmarine MTB


Don't know yet,but there's quite a few small military boat kits out there to play with!!

[PR19_Kit]

Don't know yet,but there's quite a few small military boat kits out there to play with!!

Italeri do a kit of that WWII Italian exploding MTB, where the captain had to jettison himself over the transom before the boat ran into its target!!!

I bought one with the idea of adding R/C to it etc. but even at 1/35 scale it's positively minute.

[Weaver]

I would have thought a Ski-E-boat would be better to accompany the Ski BisMark, although you could always add to the confusing by "Germanizing" ("Germinating?") the Vosper with a rounded bridge with built-in ski-torpedo lanuchers, etc...

Actually, there's an even better reason for doing it: if you contract Ski-E-Boat and translate it to German, it comes out as "SkE-Boot"......

[Radish]

Sounds like it comes from the Newcastle, Tyneside area....everying with a vowel sounds like "EE".....unless it's "AYE"....which sounds like "EYE"..

as in "Hurriceen", "Spitfeye", "Tirpitzeye", "Bismarckeye"....or, "Hurriceeneye".

OGL apparantly is fluent in Geordie...or Geordeeeee. Aye.

[NARSES2]

Sounds like it comes from the Newcastle, Tyneside area....everying with a vowel sounds like "EE".....unless it's "AYE"....which sounds like "EYE"..

as in "Hurriceen", "Spitfeye", "Tirpitzeye", "Bismarckeye"....or, "Hurriceeneye".

OGL apparantly is fluent in Geordie...or Geordeeeee. Aye.

Is he ? I know I am or at least I can translate it into English