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Italeri Models New Schnellboote!
Pennsylvania, United States
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Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007 - 12:36 AM UTC
Michael, have you seen these at
U-Model? 
"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by..."
Zimbabwe
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Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007 - 01:58 AM UTC
With so many neat projects I think I might have to quit my job so I can spend more time building. I knew I should have stuck to the armor board. Coming over here has given me tooooooooo many tasty projects I want to build.
One thing that is for sure I need to get a permanent set up for my workbench.
Queensland, Australia
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Posted: Monday, December 03, 2007 - 01:26 PM UTC
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Michael, have you seen these at U-Model?
Mark,
thanks for the link
They are very nicely scultured figures .
I think with the PT and the S boot need crews at their stations manning the guns in action .
This will give the modeller an opportunity to create movement with a boat on a dio.or free standing .
Big as it may be(the dio) I would like to see the manufacturers creating the figures to fit in the gun positions on the pt boats ready for action .
With the likes of Masterbox and Dragon having crews manning field pieces and in action is a great start .
I do hope U model venture into taking a leap forward and be the first for bringing out gun crews for the Pt and S boot .
Happy modelling
Michael
Zhejiang, China / 简体
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Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 11:26 PM UTC
Anymore news on the Italeri's expected release?
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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Posted: Sunday, May 18, 2008 - 11:59 PM UTC
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Anymore news on the Italeri's expected release?
Ahoy Charles,
Unfortunately mate, same old..."
coming soon"....
"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by..."
Zhejiang, China / 简体
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Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 - 04:03 PM UTC
Sounds like a replay of their Elco release which I currently have in my kit stash along with a TianJie S-100.
Have been holding for the new Italeri kit to make some masters for the poorly made or less than detailed parts found in the TJ kit which will be built as an earlier high forecastle S-26 or S-38. All will be RC for a nice little Med or Channel fleet in the local lakes.
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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Posted: Monday, May 19, 2008 - 09:29 PM UTC
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Sounds like a replay of their Elco release which I currently have in my kit stash along with a TianJie S-100.
Have been holding for the new Italeri kit to make some masters for the poorly made or less than detailed parts found in the TJ kit which will be built as an earlier high forecastle S-26 or S-38. All will be RC for a nice little Med or Channel fleet in the local lakes.
My sentiments exactly, Carl...we saw the complete kit at Nuremberg '08, so the molds are done, and (quite possibly) the kit could be in production as we speak, and Italeri could be holding off release to build interest, as with the Elco...time will tell!
"And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by..."
Zhejiang, China / 简体
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Posted: Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 02:43 PM UTC
Here's the official news from Italeri's export sales manager who I met yesterday the Shanghai Hobby Expo:
Italeri will release their new S-100 in September.
They displayed the first article sample of the hull. What I saw looked
VERY nice with riveting around the torpedo tubes & nicely molded features such as exhaust, intake & discharge ports in the hull, but was told final tooling revision work was being done before production starts this summer.
Here are a few photos to wet your appetite!
Chuck
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Posted: Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 03:10 PM UTC
FANTASTIC bit of News reporting mate!
The images do look very good, the vessel, well, quite good indeed...thanks for sharing the experience, Charles, looking towards September!
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Posted: Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 05:18 PM UTC
Looks very nice so far.
Does this scale out to 36-37"long? Think this was the longest of the torpedo boats of ww2.
Cheers!
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Posted: Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 05:53 PM UTC
Mom and Julie and Aunt Ruth, my dear Godmother, I miss you all and think of you everyday. I'll see you all again sometime:)
Zhejiang, China / 简体
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Posted: Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 06:31 PM UTC
More news for you gents... I had the pleasure of sitting down with their sales manager & told her they should consider a mid S38 open bridge mod kit for those of us who want something besides the late skull cap version. Same could be said for other arms options: dwilling, vierling, torps, mines, etc... She seemed genuinely interested & asked I follow up with my suggestions & in an email which will be going out today.
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
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Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 08:30 AM UTC
of course, this coming out right after I ordered the 1:72 revell S100 on sale....
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Posted: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 - 10:07 AM UTC
For those interested in the subject The Wheatcroft Collection has acquired S130 the last remaining S-boat and will be fully restoring it back to its original configuration. The restoration can be followed on the site at
S130Brian
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Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 06:54 AM UTC
The S-100 klasse boats were 34.9 meters long. This works out to 129 feet, which is a little over 44 inches in 1/35. Not quite as big as the 1/72 Gato, but quite impressive none the less. The problem will be convincing the wife. She got quite tired of sharing our kitchen table with the Italeri Elco which is a mere 28 inches.
Zimbabwe
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Posted: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 - 09:51 AM UTC
I would love to see the eralier war version of the S-boot. That would be all so nice.
Nevada, United States
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Posted: Friday, June 13, 2008 - 11:41 AM UTC
Hmm, looks like it is time to go hit the Megabucks Jackpot so I can afford both PT and S Boote as well as a house big enough to have a shelf that long to show them off. Now if some enterprising individual would come up with a Fairmile as well as a Vosper, that would be time to uncork the champagne.
Jay Massey
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Posted: Friday, June 13, 2008 - 04:37 PM UTC
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The S-100 klasse boats were 34.9 meters long. This works out to 129 feet, which is a little over 44 inches in 1/35. Not quite as big as the 1/72 Gato, but quite impressive none the less.
That's big.
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British Columbia, Canada
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Posted: Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 12:12 PM UTC
All my sources say the S-100 class was 35 meters length overall.
Since the stated scale is 1/35 the math becomes REAL simple.
35 divided by 35 is 1.
The model should be a meter long, or 39.37 inches if you prefer.
Do not know where I am going to put the thing, but I'll get one for sure!
andy
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Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 06:06 AM UTC
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Do not know where I am going to put the thing, but I'll get one for sure!
andy
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Another one for the stash!!!
And I have to agree that any of the Fairmile's or a Vosper would be nice (for the new home!!!!)
Rui
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Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 06:32 AM UTC
The question is: Do I get it or put gas in the car twice?
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Zimbabwe
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Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - 08:18 AM UTC
Heck, that would fill my truck once!
Decisions, Decisions.
