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General Forums => Custom Skins => Topic started by: Kev367th on January 19, 2007, 01:52:06 PM
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Seen in this image (left one).
Apparently Summer/Fall of 1944 was one of three (PT-71 and PT-72 other two) that were running around the English Channel colored PINK!!!
(http://www.cyberonic.com/~kreed/pt199.jpg)
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Not surprising. If they didn't want to be spotted, they'd try new paint schemes. Consider the RAF recon planes were pink as well. It's a color that's not easy to see at long distances and thus hard to define what you're looking at.
EDIT: Or, like Operation Peticoat, they only had 5 gallons white, 11 gallons red, and were in a hurry :t
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Originally posted by Krusty
Not surprising. If they didn't want to be spotted, they'd try new paint schemes. Consider the RAF recon planes were pink as well. It's a color that's not easy to see at long distances and thus hard to define what you're looking at.
EDIT: Or, like Operation Peticoat, they only had 5 gallons white, 11 gallons red, and were in a hurry :t
Lol, yup, not a bad movie at all.
Seaman Hornsby - Now I know why they call them Pig boats :) .
Guess I just have to find RGB values for USN "Medium Pink", so far have drawn a complete blank.
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All I cound find with a google search was:
"Exact color and tone unknown. No color sample or formula found. This color may have been based upon the pink that was believed to have been worn by some British corvettes in the 1941/42 period. Not to be confused with Mountbatten Pink, a quite different color."
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We sunk a truck!
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Originally posted by Krusty
All I cound find with a google search was:
"Exact color and tone unknown. No color sample or formula found. This color may have been based upon the pink that was believed to have been worn by some British corvettes in the 1941/42 period. Not to be confused with Mountbatten Pink, a quite different color."
Yup, thats about all I could come up with also, so at a loss as what to do, or what RGB values to use.
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Try checking with these guys...
http://www.floatingdrydock.com/camo.htm#PAINTS (http://www.floatingdrydock.com/camo.htm#PAINTS)
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Sweet - pink PT boats...
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The PT Boat looks like a Huckins made in USA maybe Florida. They were painted haze grey. And the decks a color called deck grey. If Huckins didn't build it it sure is from the Huckins boat plans.
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Originally posted by Saxman
We sunk a truck!
(http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes2/pettycoat315.jpeg)
I love that movie, haven't seen it in ages!
Try this shade of pink :D
(http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes2/pettycoat384.jpeg)
(http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes2/operationpet388.jpeg)
And don't forget to make a few feild modifications.
(http://www.homevideos.com/freezeframes2/pettycoat243.jpeg)
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From At Close Quarters: PT Boats in the United States Navy, by Robert J Buckley, Jr. :
An urgent request by the Office of Strategic Services for PT's to land and pick up agents on the French coast resulted in the hasty commissioning of a new Squadron 2 ... on March 23, 1944, at Fyfe's Shipyard, Glenwood Landing, Long Island. The squadron, commanded by Lt. Comdr. John D. Bulkeley, was made up of three early Higgins boats, PT's 71, 72, and 199 which had almost 2 years of service as training boats in Squadron 4 at Melville. After a rapid overhaul at Fyfe's Shipyard, the boats were shipped to England, arriving at Dartmouth on April 24. There they were fitted with special navigation equipment to give them pinpoint accuracy in locating their objectives on the French Coast. Officers and men practiced launching, rowing, loading, and unloading four-oared pulling boats, constructed with padded sides and muffled oarlocks, until they could land men and equipment on a beach swiftly and silently on the darkest night.
PT 71 made the first trip across the Channel on the night of May 19/20, carrying agents and several hundreds of pounds of equipment. The 71 crossed German convoy lanes and minefields, anchored within 500 yards of a beach commanded by German shore guns and a radar station, landed the men and gear under the noses of the German sentries, and returned to Dartmouth without discovery. That was typical of the 19 missions Squadron 2 performed for the Office of Strategic Services between May and November. Sometimes they put men ashore, sometimes they took them out of France. The boat officers and men never knew the identity of their passengers or the exact nature of their missions. The job of the boats was to land their passengers or to pick them up at precisely the right position on the coast, and to do it without being detected. The squadron completed its 19 missions without once making contact with the enemy, which is entirely as it should have been.
Being about operations, it doesn't go into details about boat specifics in anymore detail than mentioned above. They all were 78' Higgins boats.
Doesn't help you any but thought you may find it interesting.
wrngway
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more "pink" pictures. In black and white, of course:
(http://www.uss-corry-dd463.com/d-day_u-boat_photos/pt-199.jpg)
(http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g250000/g253227.jpg)
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Pink spit in the hanger and pink pt at the dock.
Sounds like a good idea to me. :aok
Bronk
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Is that the same model PT boat as we have in the game? Does not appear so from the photos. :noid
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Originally posted by Fencer51
Is that the same model PT boat as we have in the game? Does not appear so from the photos. :noid
I believe we have 80-foot Elco's.
(Need my scanner)
wrngway
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Originally posted by Krusty
EDIT: Or, like Operation Peticoat, they only had 5 gallons white, 11 gallons red, and were in a hurry :t
VERY funny movie.
hap