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Miniatures Adventure => Pulp => Topic started by: loki on February 27, 2008, 09:43:23 AM

Title: U-Boot
Post by: loki on February 27, 2008, 09:43:23 AM

Did not seen those before:

http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/PulpFiction.htm

(http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/images/PulpFiction/PuboatFull2.jpg)

(http://www.stanjohansenminiatures.com/images/PulpFiction/UPuboatFull.jpg)

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Poliorketes on February 27, 2008, 11:20:25 AM

Have you seen the postage rate for overseas? That's ridiculous.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: uti long smile on February 27, 2008, 12:49:56 PM

I've been very tempted by this in the past - but the shipping is a killer.

Ordered a couple of painted pieces from SJM in the past and they've been OK - the mole machine for example is quite nice.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Hammers on February 27, 2008, 01:40:51 PM

That dohickey doesn't say submarine to me. It looks more like a zeppelin accidentally puffed up with cement insted of hydrogen and now it has troubles getting out of the water.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Hammers on February 27, 2008, 01:41:39 PM

Now I've got it. It is of course a lead zepelin.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Plynkes on February 27, 2008, 02:19:09 PM

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/Groanhenry.jpg)

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Hammers on February 27, 2008, 02:25:13 PM

Thank you! I'll be here all week.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Westfalia Chris on February 27, 2008, 03:42:37 PM

Quote from: "hammershield"

Thank you! I'll be here all week.

Good. That leaves us with enough time to come up with measures appropriate for punishing you for that pun. :lol:

Have to say, without even regarding the price, I don´t like that sub at all. It cannot make up it´s mind as to what it wants to be - hull shape looks like a nuke sub, with lots of greeblies added that would make underwater microphones  overload due to the noise...

Short, doesn´t look neither Victorian nor Pulp or Modern. :?

Title: Mole Machine?
Post by: Lordblackwing on February 27, 2008, 09:04:49 PM

If I am not mistaken, that "mole Machine" is the old Epicast 40k scale tunneler, the Termite. It looks like the one I have stashed somewhere around here for my Squat/Grymn forces.


Edit: The sub doesn't look right...too wide for its length. Early subs where long and narrow.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: DiggerPete on February 28, 2008, 08:40:22 AM

As a former Sub Driver I would NEVER get on that beastie :o
It would be a case of DIVE, DIVE, DIblulbblubblub............... :cry:

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Rhoderic on February 28, 2008, 11:58:14 AM

How "anti" this place got all of a sudden. I don't think it's THAT bad. You lot sound like you'd be ready to boycott any game this model appears in :wink:

Title: U-Boot
Post by: revford on February 28, 2008, 12:25:42 PM

The big, flat deck makes it a very game practical model.  Lots of space for the action to take place.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: JollyBob on February 28, 2008, 12:28:39 PM

It's alright. In general I like it, and I appreciate that it's a game piece not a real sub, but the colourscheme in the painted version is almost exactly like Stingray to my mind, and that puts me off quite a lot, unfortunately.

Title: U-Boot
Post by: TadPortly on February 28, 2008, 02:53:05 PM

I quite like the idea of the M Class subs with 12" Gun, later converted to carry seaplanes:

http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/m_class.htm#M%201

http://www.cyberheritage.com/kits/index3.html

http://submariners.co.uk/Dits/Articles/m1.php

http://www.shipwrecksofscotland.com/hms_m2.htm

or the French Surcouf:

http://groups.msn.com/Surcouf

Title: U-Boot
Post by: Helen on February 28, 2008, 07:50:45 PM

Quote from: "hammershield"

Thank you! I'll be here all week.

Do you have too :lol: