Calling all Kriegsmarine Schnell-Boot fans

[drasticplastic]

This question sound familiar from only a couple of months ago. Wartime S-Boots had no masts - therefore no rigging. There were antenna cables attached by turnbuckles to the rear of the foreward 20 mm's safety rail, attached to the antennae either side of the bridge, and terminate, again with turnbuckles, to the safety rail of the mid-ship twin 20 mm. (or whichever weapon is placed at this location). The cables are hard to see in most photos, unless they are close-ups.
https://weaponsandwarfare.files.wordpre ... 0-side.jpg

[David Clark]

A company called Fore Hobby has just released a 1/72 kit of the S-38 S-boot. I have only seen it online but it seems to be a fairly sophisticated model with good detail, PE and turned gun barrels:

https://www.1-72depot.com/en-au/miniatu ... s-38-1942/

I am just starting the old and flawed Airfix E-boat and I've got the Revell S-100 to build next so it may be a while before I buy the Fore Hobby kit. Hopefully there will be some reviews and buld articles before long

[keef666]

Missed this tread, and i come on this site once a day to check the galley out and still missed this!
I did an RC conversion back in 2009/10 of the Italeri S100 1/35th kit with a lot of extras added, of course it had a 20mm Vierling on the back and scratchbuilt mines and trolley, fitted with three motors its sailed beautifully, then in a fit of madness i sold it, the build log i did was over on Finescale model site and all the photos were on Photobucket, needless to say i have lost them all, and even when i have gone on to the site they are all deleted.
Back in March i bought another one and in the process of building this for RC again, also picked up the Earlier type Italeri released around 2017/20 of S-38, cat number 5620. Now it seems Italeri is coming out with S-26 cat number 5625, so i want to know is this a re-release kit or has it go newer details/ parts etc? Coming out with a Hiigins 70 footer also!
Over the course of the last few months i have also been adding to my collection of S-boot books up to around 16 now and for all those pages not a lot of photos, nearly nil on any camo schemes!
So now waiting to seeing this new Italeri S26

[stevinne]

A bit off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew of memoirs by schnellboot crews. I'd be interested in reading what fighting the coastal war was like from their perspective.