Big Lindberg Japanese submarines coming!

Pat Flannery · 2008-01-07T11:07:36+00:00

Wait till you see what Lindberg is bringing out._1/72_ scale Japanese WW II C-1 class fleet subs with Kaitens and Type A midget subs to go on them: inches long.Also, the Airship "Los Angles" in 1/245 scale with a Sparrowhawk fighter: is also a clever reuse of their Jurassic Park T-Rex molds: 's the main website page:

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Pat Flannery 18 years ago

I'm trying to remember... did they surface, put the crew aboard and the roll it off the back of the deck, or put the crew aboard and then submerge under it after releasing the attachment shackles? Interesting photo here:

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what is apparently the effect of the destroyer Monaghan's depth charges on a Type A midget:

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the hull plating into something resembling a waffle iron. That seems to have happened to those one recovered from Sydney harbor also:

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really missed the boat in the details of that cutaway drawing. I found some price info on the models: Retail is $130.00 for I-20 and I-55, although Hobby Surplus Sales is charging $103.99 for them (they're on backorder).

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Pat Flannery 18 years ago

Photographic coverage of Japanese submarines during the war was skimpy at best.

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someone 18 years ago

at midnight? (apologies to gary numan)

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Mad-Modeller 18 years ago

them:

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> 58.5 inches long.

molds:

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> Here's the main website page:

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It may be to let the clueless amongst us know that they will have to build it themselves. Heh, for awhile there I could have advertised myself as the 'home of

1500 unassembled model kits'. ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller 18 years ago

IIRC, Lindberg's XFY is 1/46 scale

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller 18 years ago

Down by the sub pens...

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Pat Flannery 18 years ago

Here we go:

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ol' S-boat takes on cranky ol' T-Rex. :-D How many of the oldsters around here remember this:

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your very own two-man midget sub, just like the Japanese Type A and German Seehund! So you wait till the kids are in it, then shut the lights off in the room...then the ping-ping-ping of the destroyer sonar is heard in the darkness....and the first of the cherry bombs is hurled at the sub! Only then do the kids realize you've glued them in with no escape! Then the water starts going down the funnel into the periscope, and the pan of chlorine bleach with the fan over it lets them know that the seawater has reached the batteries and their time is short. It'll read great in the court records of the child custody case, and you'll never have to see the little monsters again! Freedom for only $6.98! :-D

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Pat Flannery 18 years ago

Believe me, when you see the thickness of that canopy and the pilot hanging in midair in a non-existent cockpit, you will know that is the least of your problems (although the canopy is actually quite transparent for its thickness). On the upside, it does have pretty petite raised rivet detail and they figured out a way to get the props to counter-rotate via gears. The rivets on the Aurora Pogo could have held a battleship together.

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someone 18 years ago

cool cardboard. we painted our black and put skull and xbones on it. and a no gurls allowed sign.

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crw59 18 years ago

this:

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wow , so many thanx for that pic. I remember as a kid trying to figure out what the sub was made of, and how I could talk my parents into getting me one. never did get one. who did? what was it like?

Craig

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eyeball 18 years ago

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eyeball 18 years ago

found some pics and a story

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a copy of any of these things even still exist?

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Pat Flannery 18 years ago

I had this one, and thoroughly enjoyed it:

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control levers were made out of Tinkertoys, and the "Astro-Star Map" was a Mercator projection of the heavens for use in determining latitude and longitude via a sextant.

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someone 18 years ago

never saw that one live. did want one but... i know collectors have everything, so at least they still exist. wonder if there's a warehouse in joisey full? you've heard the hula hoop myth? supposedly some guy tryed to cash in on the hoop craze and ended up with a warehouse contianing several 100 thousand. if it was true, i suspect that old plastic would turn to dust if touched.

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Pat Flannery 18 years ago

Want to see a _really_ cool toy sub?:

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's from here:

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someone 18 years ago

i want the bathtub that fits in...and the house......and the money.

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Rufus 18 years ago

OHHH...OHHH - a 1/72 Serian!!!

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Rufus 18 years ago

I think j-aircraft.com also has a few Naval refs.

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Rufus 18 years ago

Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Airplanes are hard enough...I'd think subs would be invisible.

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someone 18 years ago

nothing in my pile. couldn't even find my glow-in-the-dark t rex.

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