Boy, I heard that. These two are ancient Aoshima...everyone knows what that means although they're shot totally in light gray, no red today but the same decals and bogus drawings.

You can make a good job of both I-1 and I-6 although the limber holes are tough. PE is a must on these submarines; Mr. Harden is of help there. Ditch the waterline plates...I think the current plates are thinner than the original red ones tho' I can't recall...I ditched them anyway. The extra parts included in later releases consists of that 'X' set, not the 'W' set...of supplementary armament, A/C and miscellaneous fittings seen separately under the Tamiya and Aoshima labels (formerly under the old 'Leviathan' name) and now included in so many WL releases by Aoshima, at least.

As far as I've seen, no work of any kind--other than mold maintenance and those new plates--has been done with the original molds. Quite the opening for Pit-Road I'd say.

RS