I have started printing a 1/48 scale Thresher. It will be almost 70" long with just under an 8" beam. The bow just came off the printer. This one is being done in ABS+. It turned out very good.
As a kid I remember reading a book I found in the school library about the Thresher, it's tragic loss and subsequent finding of the wreckage and I was fascinated. I later found out that my ex-wife's sister was engaged to one of the crew members which helped cement in me the tragedy of an event that happened a mere two months before I was even born. For a very long time I have wanted to make a model of the Thresher, not out of a some morbid curiosity but as a remembrance of those 129 souls. May it never happen again. Thank you Bob for putting out the files for this boat aka the Permit class.
As a kid I remember reading a book I found in the school library about the Thresher, it's tragic loss and subsequent finding of the wreckage and I was fascinated. I later found out that my ex-wife's sister was engaged to one of the crew members which helped cement in me the tragedy of an event that happened a mere two months before I was even born. For a very long time I have wanted to make a model of the Thresher, not out of a some morbid curiosity but as a remembrance of those 129 souls. May it never happen again. Thank you Bob for putting out the files for this boat aka the Permit class.
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