THE WORLD’S BIGGEST KIT SPEEDS BACK - ITALERI PUTS THE 1:35 SCALE SCHNELLBOOT BACK INTO PRODUCTION
SMN Report Good news for model ship enthusiasts with Italeri’s announcement that ‘popular demand’ is bringing back the metre-long (well, 999 mm to be precise) kit. The Italeri 1:35 scale Schnellboot - ‘fast boat’, also known to the Allies as the E-Boat - really is one of the best-ever World War II naval models in any size, but especially in the big military scale, and it certainly dwarfs the 1:72 scale competition from Revell and Airfix. Smaller-scale Schnellboot built in Germany Of course not all - even most - of us have room for the Italeri giant, and those smaller alternatives are decent kits in their own right. The German website 'Das Modellboard' has some fine build pix of the Revell 1:72 scale Schnellboot, two of which we show below, and as you can see it’s beautifully built. It might be nice to see some crew aboard this latter-day Marie Celeste , but that’s up to personal preference. Restoring the S130 Meantime in Cornwall, UK, work continues with the restoration of the...