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I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, July 20, 2019

T is for Toy Fair 2019 Reports - Revell - Naval Models

We looked at a couple of large scale (compared to other ship kits) warship models last year and this year there were three of note in 1:72nd scale on display, all new issues or new tooling who (which?) were displayed alongside a rather nice Eurofighter Typhoon in Luftwaffe 'Ghost Tiger' tiger-meet markings.

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1:72nd scale submarines, there are a few around now, and they are bloody-awesome! And; no oars, so they can slip onto a narrow shelf somewhere, plenty of crew too, from the old Airfix E-boat crew, through Revell's own 'soldier box' set to resin figures from aftermarket garage-concerns. Below it are a US Fast-PTB and a German Schnellboot which we'll look at closer, first.

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I don't know much about these, or what the difference is between an S-Boot and an E-Boot? Is one bigger, or more powerfully-engined? All I know is they are mean-looking mofo's and I love the Dalek cab! Sorry Granddad . . . Dalek bridge!

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Sticking with the Kriegsmarine brings us to Unterseeboot 203 a type VII/C '41 with a vast array of finely detailed brass parts on a large, acid-etched fret. I like the camouflage, which really does look like rippling waves but it looks naked without a large deck-gun? Although there's enough firepower in those pulpit/baskets to sink a small vessel or bring down a flying sub-hunter!

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Again I don't know much about this either, although there are lots of MTB/FPB kits around, some showing their age (box-scale or 'universal' hull-scale) and I've always wanted to make one up, but never got round to it! This seems to be a new tooling and would I be right in saying a post-WWII boat; Cold War or Vietnam campaign maybe?

Addendum - PT588 saw no service - http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05588.htm 

2 comments:

Terranova47 said...

what the difference is between an S-Boot and an E-Boot?

Germans said Snell for fast boat. The Brits referrred to all German boats as E for enemy boats

The Germans built with steel and diesel engines, the British used wood and petrol engines.

Read the auto biography of actor Patrick McNee (John Steed) for the results of the building materials.

Hugh Walter said...

Cheers Terra' - cleared that up!

There used to be an old PT Boat rotting in the Solent (or probably the Ham...'ble?), RAF rescue launch (I think?), for years, but I saw it was finally being done-up last time I was there! I haven't seen it finished though.

H