ssn705 wrote:
I am happy to do scratch-building for all of the one-offs I build, but it is it too much to hope a company that chooses to put a VIRGINIA kit on the market actually does it to show the way they look in service?
Dave
Seems we are then not so different! Scratch building is fun, but not when you have to repeat yourself umpty times. Example: correcting the banana boat shaped deck of all the AFV Clup Gato/Balao/Guppy kits. I have done now three of them and that's enough.
Yes, let's hope that one of the companies will do an updated Virginia. But I have little trust that these companies are reading this forum, let alone this post. Case of barking up the wrong tree. Remember the Arleigh Burke: for years we only had the much to be desired Panda kits, and only relative recently we got new, not necessarily better, but up-to-date kits available. So let's count our blessings, at least there is some reasonable good rendering of a Virginia, and it's already much better than Bronco's Seawolf attempt! (See other thread)
The only one who might hear us is Steve Larsen (ModelMonkey), who started this thread in the first place, and who might develop some 3D gadgets for the bow sonar. (Steve do you hear?) Dave, do you have the required drawings perhaps? Your username seems to suggest you're crewmember of the Corpus Christi, if I'm correct?
Btw, I noticed there are really nice thrusters available from Shapeways, considering to buy several for both some USN and RN boats!