Warlord offers the R 23 , based on the basic type R and R 41 β Not bad in mine service but it costs a bit of max. Reason 2: Price. Ahem, yes. For the money two resin kits cost I can buy material for a fleet of R-Boote.
With less fun for crazy me. Reason 3: I wanted to do Boats based on R 53 β 72 sub type-. One of each with mines. For that the resin models are only bases anyway.
And 4, the main reason: Brexit. Now delivery to continent takes an XXXX time. These boats saw much service, mine clearing and laying, escort and anti submarine work and patrolling. Many got lost but a surprising number of these wooden hull boats survived. From my R 53 β 72 version seven got used post 45 for mine clearing and other jobs.
Some strange, so R 55 became a restaurant at Oldenburg for some time. The two main loss reasons being mines or plane attacks. But R 60 β 62 got destroyed at Helsinki. Some claimed a sabotage attack but may be it was an explosion caused by a careless sailor. Three are lost by mines as escorts to KSK 7 Komet in his second sortie.
A good scenario with my Komet. Like the German claims those of RN Coastal forces are far too high. Mostly fighting at night, half blind by star shells and tracer, all claimed too many sinkings. In cruel sea games they will meet MTB. History showed that R-Boote had not been immune to Torpedoes. R met his fate by MTB guns following a torpedo hit.
