A MONSTER 7ft long Disney Nautilus model kit
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2020
- Join me for a tour of one of the rare William Babington 7ft long Disney Nautilus model kits.
A little rough around the edges, this will build into a beautiful boat with some TLC, time, energy and talent!
It's sold to a customer down here in FL, so I won't be finishing it off...
Thanks for watching!
Bob Martin
the RCSubGuy
www.nautilusdrydocks.com 
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I saw your lid behind you. My best friend drove 770. Thank you for your service sir.
I know when your done working your magic it will be a work of art! Thanks for Sharing Bob.
Very Nice!
You are a true artist. One of the greatest designs of all time. Amazing work.
The 3D printed parts are really going to make a difference. It will look great when you're finished.
Great video! Thanks for the tour of that model!!
Awesome buddy.
Thanks for your help with the parts to complete my build!
I cannot wait to see this finished!!!
Hey Bob, Many thanks for this video. It was informative and entertaining as well. The Nautilus is one of my personal favorites having watched the Disney film as a youngster and being impressed. It looks like it's going to take you quite a while to finish this project. Thanks again.-- Tom
Thanks Bob! Great video.
The man who designed the Nautilus also designed the Proteus for " Fantastic Voyage". 1966.
Impressive, much work to do, eager to see that final result that will take many hours. regards
Wish it was available would love to have one
Very cool
Absolutely gorgeous, can't wait to see it finished. Rc or not it's very impressive ! Don't want to know what it cost lol .
Hmmm... So when is some extravagant billionaire going to create a full-scale, operational prototype? And I don't mean the Disneyworld ride, but a real, operational submarine.
Now THAT I'd love to see!
But anyway, great video. Keep 'em coming!
Nice job with the repairs you made. I bought one of these when they where new (25 years ago). Paid a lot for it and was very disappointed when I got it. It has all the problems you pointed out. William Babbington called me full of apologies. He said one of his partners was pulling parts from the molds he made that where not of good quality as you show here. William promised to make it right for me. It has been 25 years and I have not heard from him.
I guess You are allredy familiar with it, but for those who are not, the guys on Vulcania submarines made a functional model based on he's old minisubmarine project, wich means that the nautilus model has a real, fully functioning miniature submarine inside of it.
I still remember seeing the movie model on display at Disney World when I was a kid.
I’ve been looking for a kit and am ready to spend some big money. I am 3D printer literate and can model just about anything.
My question is what is the best and biggest quality kit available today? I want scale details and will equip it for rc. I was looking at the Engel stuff but was wondering what else is available.
There was a 66.5" kit on the market years ago, but it's out of production. The only other one is the Engel kit you mentioned, which is more Nautilus-esque than the real deal. I offer 31" kits that are great for static display or RC. Lots of videos on my channel of those boats, including a step-by-step tutorial on RC'ing the model. I'll be releasing a 48" kit late this year, too.
Wow! Dude, Thats alot of work there! Almost like a car resto!
Love to build something like that for wargmaing
Hell yeah Bodybuilding and Geeking goes along.
Hmm. Any updates? I really want to see that in the water, it will look amazing.
This was refurbished for a customer, not a buildup. Unfortunately, this is all I will be able to show on this particular model.
@@RCSubGuy What a shame :)
The restoration of this boat is well underway. I am the proud owner and will be featuring my progress on the Nautilus Drydocks forum. This is a long term project and I am only several months into bringing this vessel back to life.
@@mr.tsdroidfactory6717 Thank you for the reply. I will be looking forward to updates.
Is the CR 1/35 kit the most accurate? I appreciate your comments about the tail light behind the dingy in your tour video.
Yes, it is as far as I know.
@@RCSubGuy now for a total noob question, can you impress me with the list of reference materials from which this or other scale nautilus models are built? You inspired me to watch 20k again! I suspect the references go beyond the standard release movies!
@@toddharshbarger8616 There are a huge number of actual Disney blueprints available for many of the detail pieces. Fans of the boat have also exhaustively created reference material and blueprints based on the actual filming miniature. If you want to get all you can dream of and more, head over to nautilussubmarine.com.
@@RCSubGuy thanks! Just what i was looking for! I wish disney would bring back these adventures that have for the most part been retired (except in tokyo, france parks). It seems like in todays times with 3d printers etc. A very hi fidelity experience could be created!
Florida? I thought you were up in Manitoba!
LOL.. I was born and bred in Canada, but Alberta, not Manitoba. I spent 6 years in Victoria, BC as well before moving down here to FL in '08.
I am realy curious about this project and how it did came out!!
This was sold as a project boat to a customer who will undertake the final completion. He was supposed to pick it up long ago, but then the COVID situation hit. It's still sitting on the shelf at my shop until he comes to pick it up.
The restoration of the boat is currently underway. Bob was gracious enough to let me keep it at his shop until it was safe to travel again. The Nautilus is now in my workshop undergoing a major overhaul.
@@mr.tsdroidfactory6717 Awesome!
I've got the 1/72 scale Nautilus, and it took some effort to get the upper and lower hull halves joined. At the time it cost $400 dollars. You didn't mention the price tag for the 7 foot kit. I can only imagine, but how much was it ?
I actually don't know what they retailed for back in the day. Nowadays, I'd say they'd start at $1500, but as they're just not available, I wouldn't be surprised if a prime example ran in excess of $3K.
I am not only the proud owner of the boat featured in Bob's video above, but was also lucky enough to have purchased one of the original Babbington 7 Foot Nautilus kits. I paid $1500.00 for the kit which was about 20 years ago from a specialty science fiction shop that is long since out of business. I remember the cost of shipping to Florida was horrendous. Bob has done an amazing job getting this particular boat in workable condition. My goal is to restore as much of the Nautilus as possible which has certainly been made easier with Bob's 3D replacement parts.
@@richardtripp2221 That's incredible ! You are so fortunate ! I hope you have the opportunity to do a video of the kit when it's completed ! Would love to see it !
Have you ever modeled the Nautilus from the movie, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen?
No, I never have, though that would be a really epic build. It would be challenging because it's exceptionally thin. It would take a mile to turn!
1:47 what is that one hanging up
That is the Nautilus from the ABC miniseries of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea starring Michael Caine.
Oh
All pro. You sewm to have the time. Hmmm....stock market?
How did you steal that from Walt Disney ?. That looks like the actual effects model size.
The actual filming miniature was 11ft in length, not 7... ;)