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Pat:
I was in the hobby store the other day buying some more T-beams to make the frame for my U-boot deck, and saw they had the Airfix 1:72 S-boot model in stock (early version).

Has anybody here built this one?  It might be a nice counterpoint to the U-711 since it's the same scale.

Siara:
Here`s one:
http://www.hyperscale.com/galleries/schnellbootfga_1.htm
Its an old model- from the seventies. Now you have choice of Italeri aswell, which is a nice model- much better than the Airfix one.

Rokket:
yeah, I'd go the italeri - I'm half thinking about the 1:35 (32?), but I wouldn't be able to touch it for 2yrs.

Pat:
Thanks for the heads up on the Airfix vs Italieri kits.  Maybe I'll wait until I can find the latter then.

Interesting comparison, a friend of mine is building a Flower Class Corvette, also 1:72 scale like the U-boat.  The two models, same scale, are just about equal in length to each other.  But the difference in hull size is considerable.  The corvette is so much beamier than the sub that you could almost put 4 U-boats inside the corvette, stacked like 4 torpedo tubes.

Seeing the two together is what got me thinking about a Schnellboot companion to the U-boat.

Rokket:
It would be a great companion, all one navy er scale.

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