Captain Nemo Query

[Cobra]

Hey Guys, Just Wondering if Anyone has Ever Built Models Related to the Always Cool Captain Nemo? have an Idea i might post to the Idea Bank but that is All I'm gonna Say for now. Thanks for looking.Dan

[Doc Yo]

 There have been a couple of models of the Disney version of the Nautilus, and an 'inspired by' version
of the sub is due out from Pegasus, I think, but thats about it. I have Comet's original vacuform version ( later
re-issued as a resin kit, I understand ) but have never gotten around to building it. Apart from a diorama of
Vulcania/Volcania, Nemo's base, and the diving suits, there isn't much else to model in the books.

What do you have in mind?

[Cobra]

my idea was Going to be Posted to the Idea Bank but.I'm going to post it to the Group Builds Instead.Dan

[puddingwrestler]

Didn't Monogram release a plastic kit NOT based on the Disney version? Based on some TV version or something  think...

[raafif]

I have a 1/72nd scale resin "Disney" Nautilus kit (39" long).

A new book has recently been released titled "Nautilus" by Graig Weatherhill.  It is a great sequel to Jules Vernes 2 books, based in today's world & is applauded by Jules Verne Society members.  Contains 2 "James Bond" sequences so that movie companies are enticed.

Been 10 yrs in the writing, thanks to full research of marine facts & Verne manuscripts.

[rickshaw]

I have a 1/72nd scale resin "Disney" Nautilus kit (39" long).

A new book has recently been released titled "Nautilus" by Graig Weatherhill.  It is a great sequel to Jules Vernes 2 books, based in today's world & is applauded by Jules Verne Society members.  Contains 2 "James Bond" sequences so that movie companies are enticed.

Been 10 yrs in the writing, thanks to full research of marine facts & Verne manuscripts.

Link to "Nautilus" publisher - http://www.evertype.com/books/nautilus.html

[ChernayaAkula]

For some cool Nautilus-related concept art, visit 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA by Robert Simons.  

Below are some teasers:

[Cobra]

This is Too Cool! Thanks for the Link.Dan

[Doc Yo]

Didn't Monogram release a plastic kit NOT based on the Disney version? Based on some TV version or something  think...

My esteemed colleague is correct-I had forgotten that release from the late 1990's. Wasn't much to look at,
but did sport a partial interior. There were two 20,000 Leagues... mini-series that came out about the
same time, only saw one of them, but it was...meh. major tampering with the story line, changed Conseil into
Arronox's dughter to provide a long triangle plot with Ned Land. Climaxed with a bit straight out of VTTBS
involving on oversized taodfish refered to as the "proto-leviathan". never saw the other one.

There was also soemthing in the late '70s-"Fantastic Adventures/World of Captain Nemo", an Irwin Allen
venture, as  I recall, and Nemo has cropped up in one or two other films of similar vintage. (" Captain Nemo
and the Underwater City"? or something like that. )

Anybody interested in Verne's work and modelling should know about this page:

Nemotechnik

There is also the excellent "Catalog of Nautilus designs" at: http://home.att.net/~JVNautilus/Catalog/some-designs.html  but it doesn't want to come up for me. Still, it not showing up as a 404 or a placeholder, so
the site or the haost may just be having problems.

[puddingwrestler]

And yet we are forgetting what to me is the greatest of Nautalis designs; that from 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen' - no , not the silly "Ich Bin Ein Submersible Rivet Riddled Aircraft Carrier Thing" version in the film, the mighty SQUID WRESTLING A WHALE version in the comics!

It looks even cooler from the side, AND the tentacles are movable and prehensile!

[nev]

Oh.......Captain Nemo.........my bad