Customer Reviews

Revell 1:180 Uss Lionfish Submarine

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Iam an 81 year old retired submarine veteran. Putting these models together has brought back fond memories of a 20 year career on submarines. I would recommend your models above others.

This is a basic plastic model, with 40 pieces of 30 distinct types. Assembly is straightforward. 1:180 scale is fairly large, so even inexperienced model builders can still easily handle all the pieces. Fit and finish is not the best but still acceptable at this price. My seven-year-old and I had an enjoyable afternoon working on it together.

USS Lionfish is now a museum ship in Massachusetts. We plan to visit it someday.

The biggest downside is its fragility. Young boys may treat it like just another toy and subject it to too great a force. Most broken pieces can be put back with crazy-glue, but the movable parts present real challenges. I had the hardest time with the dive-plane, which came with a shaft that was 1mm too short to begin with. The dive-plane rubs against the hull, making it both easy to break and hard to fix.

This model kit was fun and fairly easy to build... a little lite on detail, but if you really wanted to spiff it up, you can get some aftermarket detail kits!

Everything fit together well with the one exception I had noted others having... the front dive plains are a bit of a tight fit... solved this by cutting a piece of the parts tree down as a spacer, and glued it in place inside to narrow the mounting point just a little! was an easy fix... just made the cross-beam slightly smaller, then glue'd it to one side just behind where dive plain peg fits... waited 24hrs, glued other side of peg in place, rapped some tape around that point on the hull to hold it narrowed and after dried... All fits well!!!

Over all, a fun, nice looking model! with nice molded details, simple to build for any modeler with even moderate experience!

Great model!, but I was done in 20 minutes (just assembling the model, not assembling and painting). It is way too easy for an advanced modeler like me. Shipping was great, got free super saver shipping and it came on the estimated date. The Plastic used is pretty strong, considering the box full of unassembled pieces fell down a flight of stairs. Not a single piece was bent or broken. Assembling the model was easy, the only bump I had was when I was trying to piece the hull together while trying to keep the bow plane hinge, stern planes and rudder all aligned at the same time. It took some creative thinking but I managed to get past it. Some nice things about the model was that the rudder could move and that the guns could rotate. I would recommend this product beginner modelers, but not higher level modelers.

My husband & my 11 year old daughter assembled together & it will be used for a 6th grade world history project. They had a great time putting it together & it is really sharp looking My daughter loved it & my husband felt like a kid again when he constructed car models

This was a gift for a wounded vet so I had it sent directly to him. He called when he received it and said it was wonderful and he was excited to put the model together.

I think this is a well done model not much of a challenge though 40 pieces. But overall nice model durable to its limits and all models are cheap plastic that's a no brainier. But my opinion its not close to its money.

I bought this toy for a Christmas gift. When I opened the box and then I realized the toy is made by very cheap plastic. It doesn't look fun at all when you build a toy ship like that. Don't understand why other reviewers give 5 stars.