Schnell Boat after-market stuff...

Mansteins revenge wrote:

I'm in search of stuff to trick out the Revell 72nd schnell boat---things like depth charges, mines, replacement flak, replacement torps, life rafts, etc...I've seen some build-ups that show the model w/ these things but no luck finding out where they were obtained...???

Eduard sells a couple photo etch kits for Schnelboots. One is for the one with the 37mm flak gun and the other without it. Otherwise they look pretty much the same. Not sure about a barrel for the 37mm as I've never looked for one. White Ensign sell things for them if I remember right. There is a decale company out there (maybe more) that sells flags and other detail stuff. I have both Revel kits in my stash that I've slowly been gathering detail parts for when I have extra money. I spent most of my boat money on Uboat stuff, and I'mstill not all the way there yet (about $350 so far), and have a Gato setting back to start. I'm kinda hopeing Revel does a release of the old Flower Class Corvette in the future.

gary

Greetings:

Czech Master Kits makes several 1/72 sets of S boat crews in resin. They also sell a set of mines in 1/72 scale. The Squadron shop shows these items in stock. WEM sells a complete photo etched set for the Revell kit along with replacement torpedoes. Both of these can be ordered from Brandon at Free Time Hobbies. I just ordered the Revell S boat with the flak gun along with these sets from them. I can't wait until I get them. I'm also planning on ordering the mines and maybe some of the crew figures as money permits. I hope this helps.

Sincerely

Michael Lacey

All of the Revell kits I have seen are NOT for the flak 38...anyone know where that one can be had? This is the model I want to do:

 http://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3151#

Manstein:

Greetings; I ordered the 1/72nd scale Revell S100 boat cat. no. RMG5002 for $26.43 from Free Time Hobbies. It is listed as with the Flak 38 option. They also list the base version without the Flak option. I hope this helps.

Sincerely

Michael Lacey

Mansteins revenge wrote:

All of the Revell kits I have seen are NOT for the flak 38...anyone know where that one can be had? This is the model I want to do:  http://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3151#

The kit # is 05002 for the boat with the flak 36 and flak 38. The Eduard PE # is 53 033. I got the PE from AAA Hobbies off Ebay (he has a store is is pretty good to work with). I see this kit very often on Ebay, and think it still in production (I hope so as I now want another one). There's also a 1/35th scale S boat, but it retails for about $219! (over 39" long). Doing a little research on these boats; I found several different paint schemes and many camo patterns.

    While on the 1/72 scale subject, I can also recommend the Revel submarines. They're not perfect, but the inaccuracies are known and fairly easy to fix in most cases. There seems to be more and more parts comming out for them all the time, but as I said before you can really invest a good bit of money in one if you want to bad enough. I need one more piece to fish out my Uboat, and that's the W.E. 88mm gun kit (well actually three more kits). I like the Andreas figure sets, but they don't come cheap when your looking at two or three sets (they run about $25 a set and the gun is somewhere around $30). The Gato Class sub can be even more expensive, so I've found out! I look to have about $400 in mine when it's done.

    Right now I think that if I had to just stay with one format of modeling; this is where I'd be. But right behind it is the WWI aircraft.

gary

Called Free Time and ordered the boat w/ the flak 38, 4 resin torps and the Eduard PE set...gonna be awesome...I didn't know there were two versions of the boat until recently...IMO, the flak 38 version is the only way to ga as it has the quad flak, depth charges and a rubber dingy included !!! Will be here Thurs...

Here is what I am hoping for:

Manstein:

Greetings:

I didn't know it also came with a rubber dingy. I also noticed Czech Master (Squadron catalog) also makes a series of dock sections that one could use to show several of these boats docked to. One could make quite the little diorama but would also take up quite a bit of room to do it right. I ordered Schnell boats In Action off of Amazon after reading several on line reviews of this booklet. What kind of camo's came on these boats? Where they all different shades of grey or were any of them done in any type of winter camoflague? I don't know much about these boats as I primarily deal with bigger subjects such as battleships of various nations or sailing ships. I got interested in the S boats after reading some of the builds going on with the Italeri 1/35 one (just too big for me) and then I first stumbled upon an early S boat made by Airfix and then the Revells. Let us know what you think of the Revell kit if you get a chance. Mine should arrive sometime this week also.

Sincerely

Michael Lacey

Mansteins revenge wrote:

Called Free Time and ordered the boat w/ the flak 38, 4 resin torps and the Eduard PE set...gonna be awesome...I didn't know there were two versions of the boat until recently...IMO, the flak 38 version is the only way to ga as it has the quad flak, depth charges and a rubber dingy included !!! Will be here Thurs...   Here is what I am hoping for:

two things to bring to light about the Sboat kits (as I've been told). The props are not right, but W.E. is supposed to sell white metal replacements that are right. Also there is a company (name escapes me) that is supposed to sell masks for the camo patterns used on them as well as the 1/72 subs too. Some of the S-boats had really elaborate camo patterns. I saw a really good book on them at Borders the otherday, but didn't have the money with me to buy it ($37). So I'll wait till they give me another 30% cupon, and snag it. Might want to check out the Michigan Minitures website. These guys have tons of figures from all the major brands.

gary

Jester75 wrote:

Great info here. Funny, I just started my S-100 without the flak38. Great looking kit!! I have the Eduard set for it and it is a really nice set with alot of fine details! I would recomend drilling out the exhaust and and water intake ports on the hull, should make it stand out nicely on display!

actually the boat with the flak 38 wasn't all that common, and the one you have was the more common one. I have both kits, and the one with the flak 38 seems to be much more elaborate. Even the decales are much nicer. Wonder if anybody sells the mine laying stuff for one? From what I've read the S-Boats did lay a lot of mines during the war.

gary

I've got three great refs w/ color plates w/ schemes that will blow your mind, and some color pics...will scan and post maybe this weekend...

I found some mines on the Squadron site in 72nd that look to be for U-boats, but possibly could be converted for E-boats...or scratched...

Mansteins revenge wrote:

I've got three great refs w/ color plates w/ schemes that will blow your mind, and some color pics...will scan and post maybe this weekend... I found some mines on the Squadron site in 72nd that look to be for U-boats, but possibly could be converted for E-boats...or scratched...

there's been a long rumored Type VIID Uboat that was a mine layer. There's also a conversion kit to build one out of the the Type VII. The one I'd like to add to my stash is the conversion kit that had a different sail along with a flak 38 and a couple other AA guns. There's getting to be quite a following in the 1/72 scale naval stuff.

gary