Outstanding Work!

Great looking build so far. Struck by how large this thing is in 1/35. Really enjoy how you walk viewers through what you did on the various components. Looking forward to the next installment.

Love, love, love the replacement Engineer's boats...looks like a unique and fun build!

Awesome kit, boy its large, and your paint job is really good, no problems, and great PE work, I'm not much of a large 1/35 scale shipbuilder but I do model in 1/700 scale and mainly Japanese shipping and especial the Pearl harbour attacking fleet with mini-subs etc, Cheers from DownUnder, I'm only a new subscriber to your channel, I'm 58yers young, been modelling most of my life and I'm a disabled Veteran, wheelchair-bound. PS keep these great videos coming, very educational, always learning new tricks of the trade.

John that looks fantastic buddy she’ll look wicked when she’s finished well done 👍🏻😉🍻🇬🇧💙

Hi John, the boat is loking absolutely fantastic, I particularly liked the look of tne guns, I hope you are keeping safe and well, best regards to you and your family and friends from a Kiwi living in Australia.

Not a lot into ships/boats and similar kits myself, but i admit that you did a great job on this update John. Nice detailing and improvements. Looking forward for the next episode. Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work my friend.

G'day John, That's an impressive build already. Looking very good. I'm an ex-Air Force type who mainly does WW2 aircraft, however, I've been attracted to the design features of some of the smaller boats of WW2. Both the Kriegsmarine and the Allies came up with extremely clever torpedo and SAR vessels which I've tackled over the past year or so. One of the books I now have in my library shows the S-100 Schnellboot with a mid to light 'greeny-grey main deck colour, under and around the wooden 'duck-boarding'. Also I’ve read about a couple of friendly fire incidents between the Kriegsmarine and the Italian Navy. So, German torpedo boat Skippers were given pretty much freedom to paint their boats, especially the fore deck and 'dazzle camo' on the above waterline hull, with any designs that the Italians wouldn’t see as potential targets. These included wide red and white diagonal stripes from just aft of the prow almost right back to the bow gun emplacement. R.A.F. and R.A.A.F. SAR boats had their decks painted in dark Navy grey. So, the greenish decks and red and white stripes on Kriegsmarine boats really made them stick out to Allied aircraft, thus is always the problem with bright camo schemes; they are a double-edged sword. As you probably know, the Nazis took to painting huge swastikas on the bow decks of their capital ships… and wondered why they were always found by Allied coastal patrol aircraft. I don’t know the full war history of the particular boat you’re building but I can say with a certain amount of confidence that if this boat operated in the Mediterranean or off the occupied French coast then it would, at some stage, had the more colourful camo scheme. In fact I’ve see a pic of an S-100 with that black panther ‘logo’ on its side before. So, I’m guessing that was a ‘flotilla’ ‘logo’ not one used by a single boat. If you have a look at Harry Houdini’s Models KZfaq channel, you’ll find his Schnellboot models and some other small WW2 boats he’s going to do a comparison on shortly. Harry is a good mate of mine and is quite the expert on all things naval from just about any period of maritime history. I was going to do my first Schnellboot with a standard navy deck till I saw his models. He pointed out his references, which I checked, and found he was dead right. Still, as both Harry and I say, every modeller has to make their models their own, in terms of interpretation; and take your model where ever your research or your own preferences take you. I’ll be following your other episodes of your ‘huge’ Schnellboot. I stuck to the Revell 1/72 scale; quite big enough for an old RAAF type to mess with. Congratulations on your build so far. Cheers, BH

Ausgezeichnet! Thought I'd throw in a little German lingo for your S-204 build! Mr. G, did you complete this build? I am so awaiting Part 4. Please don't tell me you berthed this project on the "Shelf of Doom"...

Awesome, it is getting there!

Looking fantastic! I managed to pick up the S100 version on sale last week in my hobby shop was 75 bucks off so had to come home with me! Just relised this is the s100 my box art has it facing the other way to in the thumbnail picture

Just started the S38 version so it's interesting to see how you approach things.

Nice build, i remember building mine 13 years ago, I made it R/C .Replaced all the rails and stanchions with brass, scratched built my own mines and trolley and corrected some of the kits faults! There should be photos on the internet somewhere?

Lookin' good John! Don't you just love photo etch? I have a 1/35 PT-109 with a nice separate PE & resin set and I'm going to have to dig it out and get it started!

great help these details for my 1/72 scale revell boat...especially the guns are very very bad/wrong....but i can fix things with scratchbuilding..

Impressionante, muito bacana

GREAT WORK..! So, I just got that kit afew days ago with the eduard "big set". But have next to zero reference books. where did you get yours ?Thanks for the video BTW.

thanks for sharing , you are doing super builds ;-) doing same kit at the moment ,only im gonna do it as a Danish 1958 version , with oerlikon and bofors guns . at first i wanted do a full interior , but thats for another time, its possible to buy the original Lurssen werft drawings online , if you wanted to build the real deal :-) just found ur channel , greetings from Denmark check the youtube film called "Det er nødvendigt....(film fra 1962)" there you see danish boats .

I’m building the S38 version. Will the Lion Roar after market stuff work for that version John? Thanks. Take care, Rob, UK

Do you have the measurements and angles of the stand you have it supported on.

OMG, that feckin music, what a spoiler!!! 👽

Where is part 4, the final reveal...the world wonders?

Just a comment for the algorithm