Seehund midget sub (OOB)

[Faust]

While I tend to focus on mecha, cars and planes, I do have other interests as well. One of those is submarines. I generally find modern subs to be a little bit boring,  but WWII subs generally grab my attention. Of course, the weirder it is the more I like it, and the German midget subs of WWII must be some of the weirdest, and least effective, of their type!

Needless to say, this means I do have a real thing for German midget subs, and I’m always surprised to find out just how many kits of these things there are! Last year I picked up a couple more, and the smaller (kit) of the two is the one I thought I’d share first! Check out one of Germany’s better entries into this category, the 1/72 Seehund. It’s an ICM, but this copy is brought to you by Revell Germany. Either way, it’s a neat kit of a little-known craft!

Seehund

 

Edited January 3, 2019 by Faust

[cobraman]

Cool ! I have a fondness for subs as well. Looking forward to seeing it completed.

[Mike999]

Thanks!  Excuse me if I've asked this before, I'm old...but are you familiar with the Ukrainian company Mikro-Mir?  They do an amazing variety of oddball ship, sub, and aircraft kits in different scales.  Including several German midget subs, like the Delfin and Marder, in 1/35 scale. Also a CSS Hunley Confederate sub in 1/35.  And even the British K-Class subs in smaller 1/350 scale.  The K-Class were steam-powered submarines, which sounds like a bad idea and was.

They're all short-run plastic kits, which can be...challenging.  Many come with a small sheet of photo-etched metal parts.  Here's their website: http://mikro-mir.com/en/

Edited January 3, 2019 by Mike999
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[r60man]

Subs are pretty cool. I found that you can get the Mikr Mir kits from Amazon, which is pretty cool. I think I might build the Hunley.