S-100 Deutsches Schnellboot WIP

 Austyn, thanks for looking and the encourgement. As you can see sometimes it takes a while to get some lookers and sometimes even longer for some to make comments.

 It was great having you up here and sharing the BB-63 USS Missouri build wiith you.

                                                  Love, uncle charlie (doc)

Nice start to the build doc, especially the extra work on the exhausts. Are you going to be adding one of the numerous PE sets or are you sticking to Revells offering?

Julian

 Julian,  thanks for the interest, She's going to be an "OOB".

 Phaisal, this kit is the original release in 1/72nd scale. Thanks for looking.

                                                                         doc

http://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=SquawkBox&file=index&req=viewtopic&topic_id=130092&page=25

This is by now a very long but very interesting thread about Italeri's S-boat but you can pick up some nice info if you dig in doc..........................

Julian

Doc,

Excellent work so far, and very fortunately for me you've decided to share your build just as I'm about to start mine.  Have you seen other published builds of this kit? There's just an incredible one here: http://hsfeatures.com/s100cw_1.htm

Anyway, I see you're doing a "build it first and THEN paint" method, yet as I perused the kit's instructions yesterday I had  rejected this out of hand because there are going to be SOO many itty-bitty bits that would have to be painted in place to accomplish this.  Could you maybe elaborate a bit on your gameplan?  I'd really like to hear whatever you can share about this build.

doc-hm3 wrote:

Phaisal, this kit is the original release in 1/72nd scale. Thanks for looking.                                                                          doc

Thanks, doc! My mistake, it was 1:72 scale, not 1:144. I'm going to get PE upgrade set from Eduard for my S-100 Flak 38 for $39.95. S-100 original's also available at the same price.

The new S-100 1:35 from Italeri is also tempting because of its size and details. But at nearly $250 here I think it costs too much. I paid only $85 for 80' Elco 1:35 which is a little shorter than the S-100. 

Model Maniac wrote:

The new S-100 1:35 from Italeri is also tempting because of its size and details. But at nearly $250 here I think it costs too much. I paid only $85 for 80' Elco 1:35 which is a little shorter than the S-100.

Strange - here in the UK (Great Britain) the Italeri 1/35 Elco costs about £80, and the S-100 about £95.  Maybe the increased cost of shipping the larger S-100 model over from Europe is the reason. There's also a larger price difference in the USA - Squadron.com are asking $135 for the PT and $224 for the S-100. 

Julian, thanks for the link, there's a lot to look at and admire.

BGuy, I just thought that I would build it and then paint it. I guess i will see what degree of difficulty that I have assigned to myself.

                                                                          doc

doc-hm3 wrote:

BGuy, I just thought that I would build it and then paint it. I guess i will see what degree of difficulty that I have assigned to myself.

Well Doc, good luck with the build.  I think that given all the akward internal areas near the bridge I'll be doing a fair amount of paint/assembly/paint/assembly steps a la an aircraft cockpit installation.  Keep those pics and commentaries coming--I'll be watching closely.

Doc, (and anybody else doing this kit), just a warning about the stand.  Don't leave it out in the rain--apparantly plastic rusts: