Mike and I Are Producing a New Sub Kit

[trout]

My findings came up short.

This one pops up frequently.
I will hunt for plans.

[Subculture]

Perhaps consolidate your existing range e.g. you have the micro Skipjack, but are hamstrung by Revell discontinuing the model, since you largely reengineered that kit with a new tail cone, planes etc. why not go further and make a new hull and sail master, with corrected bow and deck profile, and vacform the beasty (maybe a resin sail). A reverse vacform could capture scribe lines too, although would be more tricky to do I guess- only ever done vacform over a positive plug.

Perhaps you could add to the micro range e.g. Albacore, Permit etc.

But then again perhaps the market is poor for these tiny models?

The market is thick with high end expensive sub kits- never known the amount of choice available now. But the choice for low cost entry level models is dreadful, and that is where the market opportunites exist IMO.

Think HFM Deep Dive VI, Robbe Seawolf etc. None of these models were perfect, in the case of the former some serious defects, but that was largely due to poor design of the watertight box (which wasn't). The defects could be engineered out, without inflating the cost of the kit's components. You could get either of these models in the water for the same sort of money as say a Tamiya buggy. Neither were scale, but I don't think their owners gave a stuff. They were fairly small in size, but large enough not to be fiddly- I think that is an important point.

[Scott T]

How about a vacuum formed torpdeo. A nose and tail cone and two halves for the torpdeo body.
They could be used as is or built into a Marder type submarine. Used on a seehund model. Used to
build a allied chariot manned torpedo. Then again you want a money maker!
My plan was to use some pvc pipe for the body but needed to fabricate some nose and tail cones.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

I need DELPHIN documentation!

Mike has recently purchased an industrial quality vacuforming machine. We want to exploit it. The idea is to produce small to medium sized vacuformed hull, resin, and metal r/c submarine kits. The first victim ... er .... project is the little German DELPHIN high-speed demonstrator operated near the end of the War.

Hey, a kit of that thing worked big-time for Norbert -- it should be a money-maker for us too!

The Caswell-Merriman DELPHIN and follow-on kits will be cheap (a relative term), accurate, easy to transport, present a painless assembly task, and will be fun to drive.

Provide us with plans and all useful documentation dealing with the lone operational DELPHIN and win a prize. Or .... don't, and suffer my terrible wrath!

Also, if you have any recommendations as to kit subjects you want to see worked up (don't get stupid!), lets hear 'em.

An early DELPHIN attempt:



David