![]() Here is another shot from a different builder, showing a beat-up and heavily rusty Type VII (Revell kit): His Build Log can be found here: (in French): The best realization (in my humble opinion), being a French modeler who turned that kit into a museum piece with a galore of extra details. ![]() The hull is provided with a grey side and a clear side:Ī lot has been said about that kit and numerous people have built it on the WEB. Instructions are very precise, clear and are leading you step by step, towards a successful completion of that large model. I have not replicated the instructions here, as it can be easily found on the Internet. They are currently sold out but working hard to produce other PE kits. ![]() I have not made up my mind yet, but I am leaning very strongly towards RCSubz which allows to redo the entire deck and part of the hull, in brass. RCSubs with a fantastic offering (slightly more expensive than Eduard but ten times better and more protypical) of PEs, including the infamous Enigma machine in the scale of 1/48. Eduard with 3 sheets of PEs for the hull and conning tower On the PE side, it is very limited and spartan: Three booklets come with the kit: Instructions for assembly (70 pages), instructions for colors (20 pages) and a flyer for painting and assembling the 50 some crew members. The main hull and rear hull are located in their respective boxes, impervious to shocks and mishandling. All the parts are arranged into three large boxes with delicate parts carefully wrapped with bubble shields. The kit includes more than 1100 parts and is extremely well presented, packaged and molded as are the modern Trumpeter kits. That model is massive with a length of 1.440 meters, near 5 feet. The following shows the box weighing 22 pounds resting against some of my pinball machines: Their 1/48 U-Boat U-552 kit is probably the biggest kit that can be found on the market today, at least it is in my small collection. Tamiya, being Japanese, remains in the leading group, but you pay for it. The models offered, the molding, packaging, artwork of the contents, quality of instructions and the size are absolutely unmatched by European or American manufacturers. The upcoming Titanic at 1/200 is another proof of their energy and commitment to this form of Hobbies. It started with their Bismarck and USS-Arizona in the scale of 1/200 and they have been relentlessly offering multiple models each time, bigger and bigger. A few years ago, Revell Germany proposed a very impressive model of the Type VIIc at the scale of 1/72 that was a nice match for their re-issue of the Matchbox Flower Class Corvette.Ī lot of negative things can be said about the Chinese quality and products, but in the domain of plastic scale models, they created a renewal, a revival of that discipline that no American or European companies have been able to even get close to. As long as I can remember, I have had a passion for submarines and more specifically for the German Type VIIc. Folks,this model is the realization of a childhood dream.
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