Why is there as I supose so little American sub models? Been looking for Ohio class sub model, hard to find any help please, ihope this gets posted
Ohio class models are hard to come by. Really, unless you go big scale, they’re just a tube with a bump on top! [:D]
I suggest trying your luck on Ebay, or giving this one a try:
https://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/rih/rih27004.htm
It’s Chinese manufacture, so I don’t know much about it. As always, try to find information on it before you purchase. I’m leery of anything at that price.
Hopefully, someone with greater knowledge will come along and answer your question.
Gary
PS> Managed to find photo (though the text is Chinese) of the model kit.
Great old bar outside the gate at Mare Island.
Bill
Have you looked at the SubCommittee Forums?
There are 1/700 scale Ohio class kits currently available, plus the older Dragon 1/350 kits. They are currently OOP, but can be found secondhand.
The earliest ones, the “letter classes” were built in smalle numbers, 5 or 10 at a time, and virtually none saw War Service.
For the “Fleet Boats” the distinctions kind of need a purist to sort out, visually (whic his why far too many of the kit makers just put different names on the box without changing the moulds at all).
Once the second Nautilus (SSN-571) gets launched, there’s a whole bunch of secrecy involved and not a lot of plans are published. Also, many of the post-war boats get all kinds of modifications, which complicates just how a maker might mould them.
By the time of the HKs & Boomers, again, there’s not a lot of documentation out there.
And, as noted above, there’s curst littel to “model.” Gettign th eparts count over a dozen, even at 1/350 is tough sledding. And not much better at even larger scale (a 1/144 SSN-688 is going to be about a meter long, and will barely want for 15-20 parts).
Which can make them fairly “plain” kits. So, not so much a building exercise. Further, they tend to be all black in service, so there’s not even that much to paint on them.
That’s not a lot of features for a kit maker to gamble upon to produce such a kit. Not when a 1/350 modern Destroyer can easily have more than 250 parts and need extensive painting and building of sub-assemblies.
The things which make subs quiet are being as featureless as possible. Which makes the models very simple. Near to boring in some ways.
How bad do you want it?
Did you read the description? They are calling this a “spacecraft.”
ROTFLMAO
Hi!
Well I guess they feel there wouldn’t be too much demand for a “Tube with a Bump on top”. To me, Most subs HAVE lost their appeal.The older subs(American, German,and Japanese, Plus a few Brits) Were interesting on the outside at least!
My Sub interests have gone Way back to the “Hunley”, and others developed back then!