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Seawolf SSN 575 bottom photo. I wish someone would do an RC sub of that one. USS Sargo, SSN 583, sister to USS Skate. Another RC boat I’d love to see done. There was a guy in Australia that did one, (Garry Gray?), but I haven’t heard or seen him in a couple of decades now. I would also like to see an NR-1 done.Last edited by Das Boot; 08-29-2026, 01:45 PM.Of the approximately 40,000 men who served on U-boats in WWII, it is estimated that around 28,000 to 30,000 lost their lives. -
Read my mind. I have stl Files for a 1/48 Sargo. I hope to build after the two French subs. Hard ot find drawings of the Seawolf same as Halibut because later both became special projects subs., Which is BS, I am interested in only before their changes.
I been trying to get more photos of SSN 575, it is wrong to assume it was just a nautilus with a different sal and bow. the stern arrangement wa different too. The rest of her (I think is the same after that. Sea wolf had a WW2 fleat boat conning tower control room in her sail too. Nautilus's elegant stern and Seawolf's. Like two sisters on a double date, Easy to see which is the ugly one, but both are interesting and in their contrasting designs.
Nautilus in later years and below a freeze frame I took of on a you tube long ago of Seawolf's launching showing the shaft struts, Different stern entirely.. Both boats had sharing twin 5 blade props.
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I served aboard Seawolf in the early 80's. For our crew's reunion last year in Vegas, I took a half-dozen 1/144 models in both the pre-and post-Special Projects versions I designed and 3D printed (resin) in a mad rush to meet the deadline.
Due to the huge crew turn-out, (200 crewmembers) we plan to have another reunion next year. I'll be building the WWII Seawolf (SS-197), and Cold War Seawolves (SSN's 575 and 21) to give to the reunion committee to raffle off and help fund the event. One of the 575's pressure hull sections, (I have another in front of my keyboard) went for $575 last year. When I was the Parche Ship's Superintendent (after they switched homeports from MINSY to Bangor) I obtained about twenty pieces of Seawolf as she was chopped up at PSNS, twenty miles to the South, and disbursed those for years afterwards.
I'm in the middle of several builds at the moment, so the next fourteen months are going to be busy. Here's a shot of the boats just before I loaded them in the car for the drive to Nevada. I spent most of the first day adding decals and twin screws in my hotel room, after four weeks of eighteen-hour days to wrap up the design, print, and build everything. I still have one mod to accomplish before sticking a fork in her. In 1/72 scale, she would be huge next to my first conversion 1/72 Parche as she looked parked around the corner from us in our sperate compound at MINSY.
Since I knew we would have a couple of the original Wolf's crew there, I made an OEM model for them. The guy on the right cried his eyes out when he took his back to the table.
Ready to pack in the car for the drive.
An OEM Wolf with 1/72 Parche
Since then, I found adequate references to finish a complete OEM set of masts and antennas for the next build.Comment
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There you go Das Boot.Comment
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That is an absolutely beautiful story. I have never seen a picture of this before. Is there any way of getting a duplicate? I remember Revell supposedly had a model of the Seawolf, but all it was was a duplicate of the USS Nautilus. How would someone get a copy of this? I can understand that veteran crying, because it’s an absolutely beautiful copy of the Seawolf.Last edited by Das Boot; Today, 12:29 AM.Of the approximately 40,000 men who served on U-boats in WWII, it is estimated that around 28,000 to 30,000 lost their lives.Comment
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