Merriman's Submarine Modelling Masterclass

Scott Kenny said:
Another Barbel-class? You seem to make a lot of those. Your favorite boat?
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When Mr. Caswell bought the Small World Models submarine line, he sent us the production masters and tools for 'refurbishment' so Mike could get those kits back into production and once again available to the market. Ellie and I wound up building new and re-building original masters and from those made entirely new tooling and produced a few test shots of each. Those test shots were eventually assembled into proper models, and that's what you are talking about.

We concentrated on the 1/96 KILO and 1/96 BLUEBACK initially and got that work done and out the door before Mr. Caswell sold his interest in the submarine line to Bob Martian, and that put a halt to any further update to the SWM line of r/c model submarine kits, as Bob's sales plan did not emphasis production of hull kits.

All that to inform you of why there was so much material posted here on those two models. Yes, I've built several KILO's and BLUEBACK's from our tooling: one for a friend, two for me (I gave one to Bob in a barter deal), and yet another for a local buddy.


































 


















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