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Bill Nichols

01-03-12 08:05 PM

1/72 scale USS Skipjack (WOW!)

You read it right, a whopping 1/72 scale nuclear sub model.
To be released soon by Moebius Models...
http://www.squadron.com/images/large/MW01400.jpg

http://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net...5/skipjack.jpg

IonicRipper

01-03-12 08:32 PM

A 1/72 scale fleet sub is already pretty big... This must be huge! Any idea on the length?

Subnuts

01-03-12 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IonicRipper (Post 1815016)

A 1/72 scale fleet sub is already pretty big... This must be huge! Any idea on the length?

42 inches long, 5 1/4 inch beam, and about 7 inches from the top of the fairwater to the bottom of the lower rudder. :D

TLAM Strike

01-03-12 10:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bill Nichols (Post 1814996)

1/72 scale

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lv...bz0jo1_400.gif

Sailor Steve

01-03-12 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IonicRipper (Post 1815016)

A 1/72 scale fleet sub is already pretty big... This must be huge!

And Skipjack was pretty small compared to today's boats. Makes me wonder what they'll be up to next.

Of course it will be hard to top what one man can do when he sets his mind to it.
http://www.carrierbuilders.net/galle...prise_1-72.htm

IonicRipper

01-04-12 12:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve (Post 1815090)

http://www.carrierbuilders.net/galle...prise_1-72.htm

Jee! Zus!

Bill Nichols

01-04-12 08:53 AM

Here are some better pics:

http://www.squadron.com/images/large/MW01400-1.jpg

Bill Nichols

01-04-12 09:04 AM

Speaking of large 1/72 scale models...

Soon to be released by Dragon, a 1/72 scale Saturn V:

http://www.squadron.com/images/large/DR50388-1.jpg

Sailor Steve

01-04-12 11:09 AM

Ooh! Ohh! Me want! Probably could never afford it, though.

I just noticed the Seaview model underneath Skipjack. Pretty big in its own right.

Subnuts

01-04-12 05:15 PM

Is that a line of sacrificial anodes I'm seeing underneath the rudder?

Yeah, I'm a geek.

Bill Nichols

01-04-12 07:01 PM

Yes, it is. I spent many an hour crawling through Nautilus's superstructure inspecting her 'zincs'. And, you are a geek.

:arrgh!:

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