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Hi All,
Just joined the forum after several attempts, thanks Ronald! I worked in a hobby shop in the 1970's and just put my hand on a load of "new in the box" r/c kits from the 1970s and other items like a crafted 54 inch mahogany Chris Craft Runabout and 3 Santa Barbara 70 inch sailboats. The owner of the shop had closed up in the 1980's and then fell into poor health and passed on about 9 years ago. His workshop had been untouched since then. I was home for Christmas holidays, I contacted his wife, (who is also our neighbor) and she said whatever is there is mine. One of the cool items, that I remember from the shop, is a SMB Technik's U-47 U-Boat kit. It has a 1.35m (52 inch) fiberglass hull with a pile of wood for the deck and superstructure. It is still in it's original box, priced for sale at $50! I know it's from 1979 based on the newspaper date that it is packed in the box. Is anyone familiar with this kit? I have 5 sheets of plans, all in German, that I will have to translate, and it's in my queue of kits to work on, about 4th in line. There is no running gear. I have been away from the model boating hobby for 30 years, so I'm looking forward to jumping back into the water so to speak and this looks like a great webpage. I'm from "the other side of the periscope", some 3,000 plus hour as Tactical Coordinator on US Navy P-3 Orion subchaser aircraft with tracking time on numerous subs from around the world. When I'm ready to start on the kit, I hope I can get some good advice on parts and pieces and about the kit itself from the experts around the world who might be familiar with it.
Bill
Atlanta, GA
Just joined the forum after several attempts, thanks Ronald! I worked in a hobby shop in the 1970's and just put my hand on a load of "new in the box" r/c kits from the 1970s and other items like a crafted 54 inch mahogany Chris Craft Runabout and 3 Santa Barbara 70 inch sailboats. The owner of the shop had closed up in the 1980's and then fell into poor health and passed on about 9 years ago. His workshop had been untouched since then. I was home for Christmas holidays, I contacted his wife, (who is also our neighbor) and she said whatever is there is mine. One of the cool items, that I remember from the shop, is a SMB Technik's U-47 U-Boat kit. It has a 1.35m (52 inch) fiberglass hull with a pile of wood for the deck and superstructure. It is still in it's original box, priced for sale at $50! I know it's from 1979 based on the newspaper date that it is packed in the box. Is anyone familiar with this kit? I have 5 sheets of plans, all in German, that I will have to translate, and it's in my queue of kits to work on, about 4th in line. There is no running gear. I have been away from the model boating hobby for 30 years, so I'm looking forward to jumping back into the water so to speak and this looks like a great webpage. I'm from "the other side of the periscope", some 3,000 plus hour as Tactical Coordinator on US Navy P-3 Orion subchaser aircraft with tracking time on numerous subs from around the world. When I'm ready to start on the kit, I hope I can get some good advice on parts and pieces and about the kit itself from the experts around the world who might be familiar with it.
Bill
Atlanta, GA