Addendum:
IN PRODUCTION
Beboer hulls Seaview buildup article
http://jimschultz.home.att.net/sub/sub.html
Rebellion Creations TV nose modification kit (for PL kit) (includes flying sub)
http://groups.msn.com/InfinityReach/rebellioncreations.msnw
(or actually, to be found on:
http://groups.msn.com/InfinityReach/rebellioncreations.msnw?Page=2
http://home.cshore.com/bucwheat/repl.htm
Skyhook Models TV nose mod kit (for PL) (includes flying sub)
http://skyhookmodels.com/seaview.htm
TO BE ISSUED
25 & 1/2 inch, 1/192 scale builtup, prepainted with digital “ping”
This is to be a model of the 17’ SFX version – TV nose – with operating flying sub bay doors, detailed interior and a 2 & 1/4 inch flying sub. Done digitally from original props. Eventually to be found at
Highliners.org
(so said by Super7, on which board I’ve forgotten, sorry)
OUT OF PRODUCTION
A quote from Issue 1 of Frederick L. Barr’s fanzine Seaview Soundings
“None of the Japanese kits were as accurate as the Aurora kits. Midori released an entire series of models of the Seaview in many different sizes. the first kit, no. 004, was twelve inches in length and was battery operated with a tiny Flying Sub that fit into the observation nose. A larger kit, no. 022, sixteen inches in length, and motorized, also featured the Flying Sub. Two smaller kits – no. 089, eight inches in length, and no. 099, six inches in length, were rubber-band powered. Another Japanese company, Union, re-issued the twelve inch and the six inch kits together in one set in 1987; this kit is still widely available [NOTE: ON EBAY]. Midori’s kits were out of proportion and the emphasis, as with so many Japanese kits of this sort, was on action features rather than accuracy.
Yet another Japanese company, Kogure, brought out a series of Seaview model kits. These appear more inspired by the REMCO toy submarine [NOTE: OF THE 1960s...BIG, FAT AND YELLOW] than the original sub. In fact, the kits look exactly like the toy! One...was ten inches...the other thirteen...The box illustration for the larger kit is highly amusing, featuring two figures in the observation nose who are so large that the Seaview appears tiny in size.”
Barr also mentions a garage kit by OzShop in Japan, which he’s never seen (nor have I), and “tiny die-cast models of the Seaview and Flying Sub in white metal” by Comet Miniatures of England.
The space-ship like “Seaview” I mentioned the other day was by Doyusha of Japan. Don’t know its release date or size; box text is all in Japanese. It comes up from time to time on Ebay, and looks quite nice...but NOTHING like the Seaview.
David Winfrey
