1/72 scale USS Skipjack (WOW!)

[Bill Nichols]

You read it right, a whopping 1/72 scale nuclear sub model.
To be released soon by Moebius Models...
http://www.squadron.com/images/large/MW01400.jpg


http://modelshipwrights.kitmaker.net/photos/news/10005/skipjack.jpg

[IonicRipper]

A 1/72 scale fleet sub is already pretty big... This must be huge! Any idea on the length?

[Subnuts]

A 1/72 scale fleet sub is already pretty big... This must be huge! Any idea on the length?

42 inches long, 5 1/4 inch beam, and about 7 inches from the top of the fairwater to the bottom of the lower rudder. :D

[TLAM Strike]

1/72 scale
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvrbzzUUle1qibz0jo1_400.gif

[Sailor Steve]

A 1/72 scale fleet sub is already pretty big... This must be huge!
And Skipjack was pretty small compared to today's boats. Makes me wonder what they'll be up to next.

Of course it will be hard to top what one man can do when he sets his mind to it.
http://www.carrierbuilders.net/gallery/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1-72/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1-72.htm

[IonicRipper]

http://www.carrierbuilders.net/gallery/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1-72/20070318_USS_Enterprise_1-72.htm

Jee! Zus!

[Bill Nichols]

Here are some better pics:

http://www.squadron.com/images/large/MW01400-1.jpg

[Bill Nichols]

Speaking of large 1/72 scale models...

Soon to be released by Dragon, a 1/72 scale Saturn V:



http://www.squadron.com/images/large/DR50388-1.jpg

[Sailor Steve]

Ooh! Ohh! Me want! Probably could never afford it, though.

I just noticed the Seaview model underneath Skipjack. Pretty big in its own right.

[Subnuts]

Is that a line of sacrificial anodes I'm seeing underneath the rudder?

Yeah, I'm a geek.

[Bill Nichols]

Yes, it is. I spent many an hour crawling through Nautilus's superstructure inspecting her 'zincs'. And, you are a geek.

:arrgh!: