I have been looking at the " Nautilus " posted on the gallery and in the hobby shop . Now , my question is this .
Is it a take off on the Disney sub or what ? There is no pinnace locked into the stern portion of the deck and the Conning tower is different .
I have two different versions of this model and am wondering if I should acquire this one . The Conn area looks to Frog-like for me .
I also have another version that is a Revell snapper . I guess it’s from a cartoon version . It has a full interior which I am converting with sheet plastic and chotshkes to resemble the original layout as it came in the paper .
It also came with a Squid ?/Octopus like creature . T.B.
I prefer, and built, the Disney boat. Primarily because its what I know as The Nautilus. Personally, I think it invokes terror much more than the non-Disney design.
Reproducing the Disney boat would have cost licensing fees, even though their boat was based on a book now in the public domain. So, Pegasus did their own version that is similar, but not the Disney boat.
Makes one wonder how much Masterpiece Models paid for the rights … or did they?
Didn’t some other company offer several sizes with Disney’s blessing? The name Comet comes to mind.
I had a similar-sized one sold by JoplinFX. All of the raker teeth were mis-cast & full of holes. I made several attempts to fix them before this POS ended up in the round file
Timeless Hobbies (formerly Comet Miniatures) has one listed.
Recommended. Resin, metal and clear vacuumform widows. Nicely detailed but a little small for some modelers (9" long). It’s a tad expensive (about $61 plus shipping from England). This is actually a resin copy of a styrene kit that Airfix had intended to issue.
It is not a kit approved by Disney and has minor differences from the movie ship - chiefly the lack of the skiff cover aft of the dorsal fin and the instruction to paint the entire boat black.
Nautilus Drydocks currently has two versions in production. Both are resin kits. The larger 31" version is hollow, cost is $450 US. The smaller version is 16" and cost is $125 US. and solid resin. I’m currently working on the 31" version for radio control, and have purchased some LED’s.
Dang, I checked out Bob’s other videos and it made my heart go pitter padder! Being a huge 20,000 Leagues fan (note avatar), I really have to get me one of those.
I have a 13" built model of the Disney Nautilus and my boys bought me the Pegasus version for Christmas. I now have to save my pennies and save my dimes so that I can buy that 31" beauty. Heck, the fx kit is another $250 on top of it… Better save the quarters too.
That, CG, is a website that I am bookmarking! Very nice.
Here’s mine,
But seriously, I did build Nemo after the Disney designs:
The story of the name Nautilus is really fascinating, Wiki has a good article. Fulton’s; the first successful submarine, built in 1800; Verne’s of 1870, and Hubert Wilkin’s attempt to reach the North Pole under the ice in 1931.
Very poetically, Skate delivered his ashes to the Pole in 1959.
