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Man it has been a while. I was a member of the subcommittee in my early 20's and built many model conversions then a 1/48 scale skipjack form scrath in those days it was a trugle for me to tap all of my resources to make parts. well I sold my skipjack 6 or 7 years ago to buy and restore a wwii jeep and become envolved in vintage vehicle restorations. Well my jeep is done and I am still working on more. Currently looking for a halftrack by the way.
I am really excited about this revell fleetboat comming out. and being that my parts bins are full of stuff form my submarine days I am ready to put those surpluss clippard valves, subtech electronics and other seals and stuffing bits that I collected many years ago in another sub.
While I recognise many names here still I see them all over the place. I see there are many forums for subs now. rc groups, sub pirates, and the subcommittee. There anre many new vendors for misc stuff, and WTC's. this is all great stuff.
10 years ago we couldn't post pictures very easily. we had to wait for the SC report to come out. I should have kept my membership all those years just to stock the library and keep up on all the interesting projects you guys were working on.
I rember there were many political scuffles on the board so many years ago. It looks as if things havn't chainged much. Is that the reason for 3 differant message boards? while the hobby must be growing since the last I tinkered in it. I still see the same names on all 3 boards.
here is a question. I uesd to be interested in uboats. I used to dream about building and owning a uboat. so I have many reference books. and kept up on the modeling sceen enough to order the revell uboat. but alass it sits in the attic. I am not interested in the enemy stuff anymore. I want as many reference books on fleet boats as I have on uboats but they just don't seem to be very many. Is there one, at least one must have book on fleetboats that will help me detail the revell model once it is releaced?
I am really excited about this revell fleetboat comming out. and being that my parts bins are full of stuff form my submarine days I am ready to put those surpluss clippard valves, subtech electronics and other seals and stuffing bits that I collected many years ago in another sub.
While I recognise many names here still I see them all over the place. I see there are many forums for subs now. rc groups, sub pirates, and the subcommittee. There anre many new vendors for misc stuff, and WTC's. this is all great stuff.
10 years ago we couldn't post pictures very easily. we had to wait for the SC report to come out. I should have kept my membership all those years just to stock the library and keep up on all the interesting projects you guys were working on.
I rember there were many political scuffles on the board so many years ago. It looks as if things havn't chainged much. Is that the reason for 3 differant message boards? while the hobby must be growing since the last I tinkered in it. I still see the same names on all 3 boards.
here is a question. I uesd to be interested in uboats. I used to dream about building and owning a uboat. so I have many reference books. and kept up on the modeling sceen enough to order the revell uboat. but alass it sits in the attic. I am not interested in the enemy stuff anymore. I want as many reference books on fleet boats as I have on uboats but they just don't seem to be very many. Is there one, at least one must have book on fleetboats that will help me detail the revell model once it is releaced?
Most of the guys go to all the sites. Kind'a like bar hopping. 
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