Its Here.....Its Here.......
I am overjoyed. My eagerly awaited Revell VIIC U-Boat arrived today. Holy hausers....what a beast of a kit. Its huge.
I have it stored next to my unbuilt 1/72 Revell HMCS Snowberry. I may get creative and whip up a diorama for the two but given their scale, I may have to move to a new house. One problem with having two huge kits such as these....does anyone know if you can buy Testors Model Master paint by the quart can???(LOL)
I am located in Newfoundland, Canada and figured I would have to wait another month or two before I got the kit delivered even though I pre-ordered it 6 months ago from Great Hobbies. To make the best of it.......I only paid $59.99 CANADIAN and NOT $US.
As a footnote, I live in the seaside community of Portugal Cove in Conception Bay, Newfoundland where U-Boats U-518 and U-513 (both Type IXC) sank several ore carriers that were at anchor awaiting loading of raw iron ore from the Wabana Iron Mines for the war effort. The attacks occurred in September and November 1942 and my grandmother was an eyewitness to both attacks. Interestingly, one U-boat surfaced and the local militia managed to get a couple of shots off at the submarine with an artillery piece. Unfortunately, the gun emplacement was on the cliffs of Bell Island in the bay and they could not lower the gun sufficiently to shoot at the sub beneath them. They did however blow up a woodpile in St. Philip's (a community on the other side of the bay) and scare the wits out of several head of cattle that stampeded throughout the town. I know this doesn't have much to do with the VIIC but I can't help it.....too excited.
Can't wait to watch the posts as modellers everywhere begin to build this behemoth.
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL.......
RODC