Big Lindberg Japanese submarines coming!

wizz azz.

as a card carrying member of the sarcastic bastard and bad joke society, i quite understand.

what did they use late 50's? it sure wasn't pets. i think.

I don't know of any refs directly on the C-1 submarines, possibly some of the Gakken series (there is one on the I-400 series of subs). Plenty of Maru issues on subs though, if you can find them.

Aurora's counter-rotated too and it was 1/48th but I agree about the rivets.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

too bad it wasn't cellulose.......boom.

More likely leaching plasticiser.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

vinyl, I believe.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

About your only hope would be allied photos of captured Japanese subs. This is kind of cool...the Kaiten crews set forth:

Pat

Remember the rivets on the Aurora Me-109? That was appalling. Their Crusader was the same way. This thing is covered with petite rivets also:

is at _least_ the third incarnation of that model since the late

1950's: Pat

One of the first things cellulose got used for was Pool balls. Players were mystified that they made odd "bang" noises when they hit, with a noticeable flash in a darkened room.

Pat

I looked it up; they were made of "Marlex":

million in the first six months at $1.98 apiece in 1958 didn't exactly suck for sales profits. Two years in, they had sold over 100 million: may make it the most successful single-manufacturer product in U.S. history. And you know who's cranking them out now, don't you?: course.

Pat

Marlex is high density polyethelene, like is used for "soft" toy soldiers. While I was digging up info on plastics, I found the story of our great friend, polystyrene:

it goes clean back to 1839 in its earliest form.

Pat

yep, and watch out for that moving expirience at the movies!

rhere was a major japabese movie about them a few years ago. can't translate the name.

big surprise.

Deguchi no Nai Umi - "Sea Without Exit":

may be a video of the trailer here: my Quicktime version won't display it. There were two earlier movies involving Kaiten: think I saw that 1962 one on television as a kid.

Pat

thanks

on 1/9/2008 10:09 AM Pat Flannery said the following:

They could explode too. Ping pong balls are still made of cellolose.