New to Model Shipwrights is Moebius Models. Moebius Models was founded by Frank Winspur in order to bring back classic scifi and horror kits. Moebius is proud to announce their upcoming release, the 1/128 Seaview from the movie and tv series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.” The Seaview is the first kit produced by Moebius Models as part of their agreement with Synthesis Entertainment.

The 39 inch Seaview kit will include:

• Flying Sub with stand
  
• Mini Sub
  
• Diving Bell
  
• Eight crew figures
  

Seaview, a fictitious privately owned nuclear submarine, was the setting for the 1961 movie, starring Walter Pidgeon, and 1964-to-1968 ABC television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. For the motion picture, Nelson was the designer/builder of the Seaview, paid for by his family fortune & government funding, and operated under the auspices of the Bureau of Marine Exploration, US Dept of Science (per art director Herman Blumenthal). The Seaview was in many ways similar to an early 1960's James Madison-class SSBN, though longer and wider to accommodate special exploration gear. In the context of the series, the Seaview was one of two experimental submarines designed by retired Admiral Harriman Nelson (Richard Basehart), Director of the Nelson Institute of Marine Research, a top-secret government complex located in Santa Barbara, California, in the then-future years between 1973 and 1983. Seaview had a sister ship, the Polidor (attack sub design), which was destroyed in the third episode of the series.

General Characteristics

• Displacement: 16500 tons (estimated)
  
• Length: 172.93 m (567 feet 2 inches)
  
• Beam: 12.19 m (42 feet 1 inches)
  
• Height, keel to sail: 18.9 m (62 feet)
  
• Propulsion: one nuclear reactor, two pump-jet propulsors
  
• Speed: 45 knots (estimated)
  
• Complement: 90–125 civilian sailors and technicians (estimated)
  
• Armament: 16 Polaris missiles, torpedoes, bow laser
  
• Aircraft: one FS-1 flying sub