Fast Patrol Boat

Reviresco’s kit of the Fast Patrol Boat is typical of many similar steam or diesel powered small craft used for Harbor Patrol, River Police, or  Coast Guard anti-smuggling patrols during the years between  the 1880's and the beginning of World War One.   Some of these small craft served as Mine Sweepers and Air-Sea Resque ships as late as the 1940’s. 

Our kit is armed with two 3lb (47mm) Quick Fire Guns, but you could easily subsitute Gatling Guns or Pom-Pom Guns.   The kit is scaled for 1/64^th (28mm) figures and measures  10 x 2.5 x 6 inches.   The downloadable kit features multi-layered .pdfs so you can choose the superstructure and hull colors as well as the boat names and numbers, or you can print it out as a rusty old tub.  

Whether you are doing Wargames,  Pulp games, or Adventure gaming Reviresco’s Fast Patrol Boat can be chugging up some slimy river in darkest Africa searching for a hidden German Raider,  rushing out of the darkness. its searchlight cutting though the fog, as the Coast Guard goes after a rum-runner during prohibition or exchanging gunfire with a U-Boat trying to land spies on the Scottish coast. 

The Fast Patrol Boat is an excellent starter kit for a begging paper modeler.   The only parts  requiring modeling experience are the 3lb Quick Fire guns and if you wish, cast metal guns are available from Reviresco http://tin-soldier.com/navalguns.html   While you are there check out our line of hard to find 1/64^th scale ship fittings at:  http://tin-soldier.com/sfittings.html