For future boats you might consider Tamiya Hull Red for the bottom. The reason ship bottoms are that color is the use of thick, paint on, anti-fouling pants. Hull Red is a bit less bright. Side note: if you ever need a rust surface, basecoat in Hull Red, then do a very light spray overcoat with metallic brown. It will give you a scintilation effect that is reminiscent of rusted iron.

A very beautiful demonstration of know-how. Thank you and congratulations. Marc

Both the life raft and rings were International Orange, later OD when we operated in the delta. There are 2 boats on static display, in at the Navy Museum in DC and the other on the Navy Amphibious Base in Coronado. The last operating PCF (a MKII) is at the maritime Museum in San Diego, CA. Runs every weekend.

Great time lapse! This is the first video that I watched on this channel and this is the kind of video I need to start the assembly of my Tamiya 1/350 battleships. I was hesitant to do it because I do not know when to put on paint but your time-lapse gave me a lot of insights. I hope you build (with a time lapse of course) of 1/350 scale battleships!

Outstanding job! I built this model before under the Monogram label years ago. It was a very basic, no-thrills kit. This was, and still is, the only model available of the Swift boat. I knew of a former co-worker who was an upper gunner on the Swift during the Vietnam War. He told many trilling stories during his service in the Navy. Cheers and salute to the Riverine Brown Water Navy! 🇺🇸👍👏

A great looking little model taken to the next level with your additions.

Beautiful. Great work!

Sickness! Great looking work man!

I saw your still photos over on SMCG. Very nice to see your process here on your channel. Wonderful work.

outstanding work,talent ,skill and care, my father was a 30 year navy vet with tours in korea and vietnam, 2 tours in vietnam he was a swiftboater stationed at cam rahn bay, other tours he was on destroyers, but i have yet to find a swiftboat kit, i will check revell, thank you for sharing this project

Excellent job ,nice finish and great use of the weathering,I liked cause is not overdone

that is absolutely amazing !!! really turned out stunning and nice tutorial also

Very nice Model , i like that Idea of using Value Gear and Tires, beautiful!

Top notch work, pal. Keep up the quality work.

Firme Hynas at the Intro Nice build too!

Excellent work and presentation.

Awesome job. I like the extra details you added.

One of the best, most informative, videos I've seen in a long time. I don't even build boats, but I can watch and learn from this. Thanks, great job!

Looking awesome

Fantastic job, good imagination.

Great build, and interesting to watch your processes

Thank you! You are a skilled Artist/Craftsman and I do like watching your builds :-)

nice kit, great build and paint

Fantastic job, good imagination and so cool .......

Great looking model kit! :)

outstanding job keep up the good work

The real boat was a great boat. Oilfield crewboats built in south louisiana modified for navy use. Built by Sewart Seacraft aka Swiftships in Berwick Louisiana

Nice build

Nice job man! Subscribed!

Not nice....stunning. immaculate build. Fantastic detail. Love it

Very nice work!

Beautiful model

Here's a gut check, I built this exact model 50 years ago. 50 holy crap on a stick. Mine was motorized and I turned it into a single screw. Lastly it died in a wonderful Viking funeral... you know how children and firecrackers are. I think I made my dad shit his pants with the explosion.

Great work!!

Really nice

Hermoso trabajo felicitaciones

The painting and weathering sequences were astonishing; I lost count of the steps! The results are excellent. That said, I wonder if I wouldn't have ground away the life rings and put 3D ones (Billings, perhaps) in their place, and perhaps done the same with the overly flat and thin rope coils and perhaps the anchor. Not trying to be a pick, but when you're going so much careful work with the paint.

In case anyone cares, the stern mounted gun is a Mk 2 Mod 1, which sports a Browning .50 caliber M2 machine gun, over a specialized 81mm mortar. The mortar is a direct fire/indirect fire weapon made specifically for the Navy and Coast Guard. It can be fired at high angles like a typical mortar, at seen and unseen targets, by dropping projectiles down the muzzle. It can also be trigger fired while pointing directly at a line-of-sight target, like any tripod mounted weapon. The rate of fire is slower in direct fire mode, than indirect fire mode for obvious reasons. Typical rounds for the mortar were HE, WP (smoke), ILLUM, Leaflet, Chaff, and APERS. The APERS round, Mk 120, held 1,200 flechettes, and was the primary direct fire projectile. Typical ammunition used in the .50 Browning was armor piercing incendiary (API), incendiary (INC), and armor piercing incendiary tracer (API-T). It was linked two API, two INC, and one API-T. Great build, Scale Hangar 182!

So cool!

great job in the model, I just give a suggestion, port side propeller should be left handed ( and starboard prop is corret, as right handed ), this is shown in official plans of these boats, the props turn outside. Excellent job in painting, good weathering.

Very cool 😎

Brown water sailors, you gotta love'em....

What do you do with them all after you have built them. I mean there's only so much room you can have in your home. Serious question.🤔 🙄😎

Awesome job kutgw

Would LOVE this kit in 1/35!

Genial trabajo!!!!!!!!!!

This is an awesome build....saying that, my one teensy criticism might be the gluing of the tires to the hull....viewing from the side doesn't really matter but it looks unnatural from head on or from the rear. I understand why you did it though!

Nice job !! I suscribe, greetings from Mendoza - Argentina.

Отличная работа!

Great, faded over head natural Camoflage! Of individual Bulk Vertical beams!

Amazing video! Do you think you could do a video about techniques on how to airbrush? I just got an airbrush, and I’m not that great with it yet, so I would appreciate it if you showed me! Thanks!

I’m ready to jump on board.

nice video !!

very nice

Life rings orange not white. and ammo boxes would be metal OD.

lol i got the same boat. bu the instruction manual was incomplete so i coudnt finish it. now i jsut have to watch this video in able to finish it properly.

Nice build! I have one in my stash, but I don't see much on KZfaq with them. My dad was a swifty. Looking forward to diving into that kit. Not criticisms, just FYIs, those life rafts were orange, and they usually painting them black or deck gray. Pretty sure they painted the life savers as well. Stood out too much. Thanks for the great build.

You got C-Rats on there ? And i wouldn't know what millit whatever you said you forgot to record, nice job 👏

I LIKE !!! One question; do you do a pre-assembly deep clean of the parts with distilled water and mild detetgent in an ultrasonic bath before assembly ? Might help remove the manufacturing plastic mold release agents for a cleaner paint job. How do you do bullet holes, flak damage, corrosion, bilge and engine discharges, paint peeling and other heavy-use marks when upping the realism of your models ? Thanks Again for a great build.

can yoy only get this affect by using a spray gun ?

Music credits?

This kit at 1983 buy monogram version

Pretty cool if done the ww2 patrol boat in 48th

muito bom , excelente;

Museum quality!

Hello! What is the name of the track from 0.00 to 3:40 min? )))

I bought this kid back in the 90s and it came with a Rambo figure and it wasn't a bad kit for $10.00 I think back at that time it was called Rambo's Vietnam Nam gun boat

Sorry if this is not the place to ask these kinds of questions, but how do you paint really *really* thin lines. I'm working on a 1958 Edsel Pacer and I need to paint the EDSEL on the grille, any help ,I'll take

Nice 👍🏻

WoW

I would rather let those tires swaying.. But still great build bro..

I got my first model that I built and it was from 1994 I believe the USS enterprise is the model I got and I thought I was just supposed to use hot glue and crazy glue lol, come to my surprise it sinned immediately I’m 12 so yikes

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Kann man mehr draus machen! Aber ganz ok.

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Très beau travail mon ami et très beau modèle J adore ta vidéo c est un plaisir pour les yeux 😎👍 Je suis abonné de FRANCE 👍 Very good work my friend and very nice model I enjoy watching your video this is a pleasure for the eyes 😎👍 I am subscribed of France And I would be proud to have you as subscriber too 👍

Never get out of the boat

Great job but a lot of work. Dedicated.

I want one with south vietnamese flag.

E-Rock Music for the good guys! Revel Models Red Cross Hospital.

good vid except for the music.

A bit sad... You took the effort to install some extra boxes and bag packs... Would had been nice to see some sailors on the boat as well.. ..Also, there is always rust on boats....don't see the weathering and rust on it.. ..

Glad I dont live in the country that thinks that tire black is normal!

Ohhh gitu doang, masih kalah sama otok2 ship, bisa muter2 diember gapake batre

Like si hablas español

this video is, John Kerry approved.