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Still Looking
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 19, 2005 1:46 PM
My father served on the USS Silver Sides in the early '70's and I am looking to build him a scale model of the ship. I've looked at my local hobby store and online and can not find anything worth buying. Any suggestions?
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Posted by seasick on Monday, September 19, 2005 3:16 PM
If you are refering to USS Silversides SSN-679, the only kit I know about is from Yankee Modelworks. The kit is of the class leader USS Sturgeon SSN-637. The kit is in 1/350 scale and made of resin. Otherwise there is only a small 1/700 waterline kit from JAG collective,and possibly a Skywave sub kit in 1/700 where it will be packaged with a different class of submarine and some aircraft.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, October 4, 2005 4:09 PM
Thanks so much, that's a big help!
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Posted by CG Bob on Wednesday, October 5, 2005 8:33 AM
The SILVERSIDES was a modified STURGEON class, being 15 feet longer. The Scale Shipyard has a 1/72 scale fiberglass hull and resin fittings set for the ARCHERFISH (SSN 678) - http://scaleshipyard.com/Catalog%20Pages/submarines.html#SUB-12. The hull is 50 & 3/8" long and 5 & 1/2" beam. The Scale Shipyard also offers STURGEON class hulls in 1/96, 1/72, and 1/48 scale. You'll need to supply the prop with any of the SSY hull kits.

Thor Design has a fiberglass kit of the STURGEON in 1/96 scale, http://www.thordesign.com/sturgeon.html. However they are currently retooling their mold, so a kit won't be available until late 2006. Thor Design kits come with a prop, cast metal fittings (periscopes, antenna, deck fittings, etc) and photo etched stainless steel MBT vents.
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