1/72 Gato--are they out of their minds?

You can put it next to Erik's 1/72 C-5 and it wont look so bad ;-)

rich

Not that I'm much into ships, but I like subs as well as aircraft. My scale is 1/72, so I think there IS demand for these. I remember the

1/72 USS Enterprise I saw about 20 years ago. If it hadn't been $1500, I'd probably have one of them. It may be long, but it's fairly skinny, too. I've got 3 1/72 subs built from Combat kits & a couple of others in the stash.

its going for unde $90 at Squadron. Just gotta get it for its size alone. since when did this hobby make sense anyway...... :)

Craig

Possibly to go with the already released U-Boat in the same scale?

Seems like good marketing to me.

John

With a blue background and some 'wavy' glass above , you could suspend them from the ceiling as part of an Action Battle Diorama .

heh heh , would have to leave the 'significant other' before you started though .

Martin

She'd probaby do the leaving. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Is there a release date yet?

A.

now we need a Japanese sub in 1/72, the one that launched airplanes!!!

Craig

was that the 1-400's? hmm, where to put a 10' model?

The I-400s weren't that big , were they?

biggest subs until that russian bastard, i believe.

The I-400s were 400 feet long. As a comparison, a Gato class was 312 feet long, and a Type VII U-boat was about 220 feet long.

Dave

that's all? i saw side by sides and they looked a lot longer...must be an optical illusion.

Umm, in 1/72 scale then that comes up about half of 10', only a little over 5 1/2 '.

Dave Williams wrote:

still a damn honker for sure.

400' in 1/72 is far from being 10'. Just over half that.

I'll be buying one, of course...