SEARCH FINESCALE.COM

Enter keywords or a search phrase below:

US sub models

1307 views
8 replies
1 rating 2 rating 3 rating 4 rating 5 rating
  • Member since
    May 2021
US sub models
Posted by RFROSTIII on Sunday, February 11, 2024 11:29 AM

Why is there as I supose so little American sub models? Been looking for Ohio class sub model, hard to find any help please, ihope this gets posted

GAF
  • Member since
    June 2012
  • From: Anniston, AL
Posted by GAF on Monday, February 12, 2024 3:31 PM

Ohio class models are hard to come by.  Really, unless you go big scale, they're just a tube with a bump on top!  Big Smile

I suggest trying your luck on Ebay, or giving this one a try:

https://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/rih/rih27004.htm

It's Chinese manufacture, so I don't know much about it.  As always, try to find information on it before you purchase.  I'm leery of anything at that price.

Hopefully, someone with greater knowledge will come along and answer your question.

Gary

PS> Managed to find photo (though the text is Chinese) of the model kit.

http://www.moxingfans.com/test/other/2023/1013/11781.html

 

  • Member since
    September 2012
Posted by GMorrison on Monday, February 12, 2024 6:06 PM

Great old bar outside the gate at Mare Island.

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

  • Member since
    October 2005
Posted by CG Bob on Monday, February 12, 2024 8:00 PM

Have you looked at the SubCommittee Forums?

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Monday, February 12, 2024 11:06 PM

There are 1/700 scale Ohio class kits currently available, plus the older Dragon 1/350 kits. They are currently OOP, but can be found secondhand.

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Wednesday, February 14, 2024 1:40 PM

RFROSTIII
so little American sub models?

The earliest ones, the "letter classes" were built in smalle numbers, 5 or 10 at a time, and virtually none saw War Service. 

For the "Fleet Boats" the distinctions kind of need a purist to sort out, visually (whic his why far too many of the kit makers just put different names on the box without changing the moulds at all).

Once the second Nautilus (SSN-571) gets launched, there's a whole bunch of secrecy involved and not a lot of plans are published.  Also, many of the post-war boats get all kinds of modifications, which complicates just how a maker might mould them.

By the time of the HKs & Boomers, again, there's not a lot of documentation out there.

And, as noted above, there's curst littel to "model."  Gettign th eparts count over a dozen, even at 1/350 is tough sledding.  And not much better at even larger scale (a 1/144 SSN-688 is going to be about a meter long, and will barely want for 15-20 parts).

Which can make them fairly "plain" kits.  So, not so much a building exercise.  Further, they tend to be all black in service, so there's not even that much to paint on them.

That's not a lot of features for a kit maker to gamble upon to produce such a kit.  Not when a 1/350 modern Destroyer can easily have more than 250 parts and need extensive painting and building of sub-assemblies.

The things which make subs quiet are being as featureless as possible.  Which makes the models very simple.  Near to boring in some ways.

  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in North Carolina.
Posted by disastermaster on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 4:45 PM

RFROSTIII

Why is there as I supose so little American sub models? Been looking for Ohio class sub model, hard to find any help please, ihope this gets posted

 

 

 

How bad do you want it?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/404689506232?chn=ps&mkevt=1&mkcid=28&srsltid=AfmBOooA-Alcle-t9JqZGKtOnVgrIqdE4j-PQTZOSLnXuIHN0Amkjl9ToOM

Sherman-Jumbo-1945

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

 

 
  • Member since
    March 2018
  • From: Chicago suburbs
Posted by Luvspinball on Tuesday, February 20, 2024 8:19 PM

Did you read the description?  They are calling this a "spacecraft."

ROTFLMAO

Bob Frysztak

Luvspinball

Current builds:  Revell 1/96 USS Constitution with extensive scratch building

  • Member since
    October 2019
  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 7:40 AM

Hi!

    Well I guess they feel there wouldn't be too much demand for a "Tube with a Bump on top". To me, Most subs HAVE lost their appeal.The older subs(American, German,and Japanese, Plus a few Brits) Were interesting on the outside at least!

    My Sub interests have gone Way back to the "Hunley", and others developed back then!

JOIN OUR COMMUNITY!

Our community is FREE to join. To participate you must either login or register for an account.

SEARCH FORUMS
FREE NEWSLETTER
By signing up you may also receive reader surveys and occasional special offers. We do not sell, rent or trade our email lists. View our Privacy Policy.