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.
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!
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!
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
Neither did PT579 - http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/05579.htm
what the difference is between an S-Boot and an E-Boot?
ReplyDeleteGermans 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.
Cheers Terra' - cleared that up!
ReplyDeleteThere 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