upcoming 1:72 U-boats

At my local hobby shop I was recently told that Revell Germany was going to be releasing 3 new 1:72 scale U-boats,
Soviet Oscar Class sub
U.S. WWII Swordfish
German IX C with Snorkel

One Of them I think the Oscar is to meassure 52" Long!!!

Anyone hear anything?

The USN WWII Fleet submarine has been confirmed by a VP at Revell. It is due in the third quarter of 2006. The MSRP will be just shy of 100 bucks American. The subject is likely to be the USS Cobia - a museum ship in Manitowoc, WI - not too far from the Revell headquarters in Illinois. This model will be about 53 inches long.

There have been photos released of a Revell project of a Type VIIC/41 U-boat, not a Type IX. The photos are of the museum sub at Laboe, Germany (U-995). That sub was a later-war version of the Type VII already on the market. It has a schnorkel.

Yours is the first rumor to circulate about an Oscar. An Oscar is 143 meters long - so a 1:72 scale model of it will be 1.9 meters or 78 inches long. Personally I don’t put too much stock in this rumor. I think the Fleet sub sill be a huge seller - but that a 6+ foot long non-descript Russian sub, even one with a history, would have interest mostly with the RC crowd and not cross over to the general modeling community

Hello,

I haven’t built any subs but was just searching about any of these subs. So far I have found this review:

http://www.ipmsusa.org/Reviews/Kits/Ships/Revell_72_U-boat_VIIC/Revell_72_U-boat_VIIC.htm

Hope it is useful to you,

Robert