The fleet submarine USS Bowfin (SS-287)
This is from the old Lindberg kit, first introduced in or around 1948. I found this at an Ollie’s Outlet store in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. It was intended to be the USS Gato with decals and the name on the box, but I thought it to be a Balao class so I printed out the sub’s badge on my printer and cut it out and pasted it on the base and I hand wrote her name on it. I added other things as seen. It’s been through the “ringer”, but weren’t they all? A lot of subs sank a lot of Japanese shipping in the Pacific and helped us win the war. And a lot of submarine sailors are on “eternal patrol” somewhere in the depths of the sea. Bless them all.
Another superb build, Emmet!
Thank you
Your ship collection, including this sub, is amazing, Emmet @bmolloy
Great work.
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Neatly done, Emmet.
Thank you
That looks very nice..., I’ve seen that kit around but hadn’t realized it dated back so far originally . I like the base you made for it. I have a very old Nichimo I-19 sub that I cleaned up and repainted in an effort to restore it. t’s on a similar base. I need to finish it up. Yours has given me the motivation to pick up on that project again.
Thank you . Yes this kit was released in 1954, so I have read. The submarine herself was launched in January 1954 and commissioned in September 1954. So if the information I read on the kit is true, Lindberg must have released the kit sometime that year. Her design began in March of 1950. That base for the sub is a piece of modeling plywood that I bought at Hobby Lobby and colored with a furniture touch-up marker.