Best modeller news of this year! Revell´s Type IX 1/72!
 

First day of 2013, and now so great news! Revell will issue famous U-Boat type IX 1/72!

http://www.plastik-modellbau.org/blo...ten-2013/2013/

http://s9.postimage.org/dhghkf6y3/co...t_Typ_IX_C.jpg

That's pretty cool!:rock:

There are several other things on that list I find interesting, and all for pretty good prices. :sunny:

A Type IX is way overdue and most welcome.

Must admit to smiling when I read the translation "The"type IX C"submarine appears in the version of"U-505""Tower III"." This boat was the only German submarine, launched from American ships in the second world war. "It is today, painstakingly restored, in a Chicago Museum."

:)

Yes:O:

But the german text is OK. I have and can recommend these books about U-505:

(Of course, there are many other books about the U-Boat Type IX, but these books are exclusively about U-505.)

- U-505 The final journey, J. Wise (Naval Insitute Press)

- Die Jagd auf U-505 (english: Hunt and Kill), Theodor Savas

- Steel Boat Iron Hearts, H. Goebeler, J. Vanzo

+ the great DVD - Attack and Capture: The Story of U-Boat 505.


But I'll definitely build my lovely U-515, not the ill-fated and unfortunate U-505.

Awesome!
This thing'll be a monster!

Big yes, but not a monster. That would be IXD2. Revell´s GATO 1/72 is bigger.

:o:o:o:o:o:o

You didn't know? It's been out for years. Dan (Elanaiba), lead designer for SH4 and SH5, bought one for Neal at the end of the 2008 Subsim meeting in Houston. :sunny:

Lucky Neal!

He's yet to build it :)

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...8&postcount=14

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...9&postcount=15

That Ju-88 C-6 that's shown in the link looks good.

If they ever come out with a 1/72 scale IXD2.....I will be lined up at a store waiting for it....:arrgh!:

Looks nice indeed but I first need to build the VIIC kit. Does anyone know if there are plans for photo-etch,update sets for this new kit?

I think it's reasonably safe to say that there will be plenty of detail sets for any new kit of this nature. It's just a matter of when.

Oh, and WELCOME ABOARD! :sunny:

Are these the first add-ons designed for the Revell Type IXC

Hecker & Goros Submarine Crews in the Indian Ocean for U-boat Type IX for Revell sets I and II

http://www.hecker-goros.de/assets/images/KSHG_254A.jpg

http://www.hecker-goros.de/assets/im...G_255_m.T1.jpg

:Kaleun_Salivating: Damn, must learn to stop drooling on the keyboard.