X-Craft was a Midget Submarine developed by the British Royal Navy for Special Warfare and Merit introduces a new kit in 'big PT-Boat' scale!

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Well this is a most welcome announcement!....finally a British sub!

Italeri had announced a release of their X craft but finally cancelled.

Well at least, no one can claim that Merit copied Italeri on
this one, as Italeri never released their version.

Then again maybe Merit may have bought out the development and production
rights to the cancelled Italeri project.

In any case....Good show Merit!

Cheers,
Joe

Who molded it...Trumpeter/Hobby Boss?

Now all we need is the 4 man crew and explosive packs along with some photo etch details. Could make for an interesting pier side dio!

The box top image looks as if the charges are attached to the sides. I sent Todd some images of what is left of a British X class for a short feature.

Correct, both sets of pics show the charges on the sides. As for crew, a simple modification of Italeris Vosper crew would work well.

Glad to see that Merit isn't going to pull an 'Italeri', that is promise but not release (I hope). Al

I have started my build of this really nice kit, and am posting pictures on Facebook here:

https://www.facebook.com/glenn.cauley/media_set?set=a.10152694373187127.1073741868.549717126&type=1&l=4396d9f086

It would be nice if there was additional PE set available for some surface features. As nice as the Merit kit is, I am sure there must be more small things that can be improved upon.

Glenn,

Check your link. When I click on it I get a facebook page stating that the page was either removed or is broken.

The settings were wrong for the photo album... it is corrected now. Almost done the build!

Nice collection of all the small subs next to each other.

Are you considering the submarine campaign for this November?