MUGUR

I bought 1/72 Russian Navy OSA Class Missile Boat, OSA-1manufactured by: Merit Productions in order to build 199 VPR ALBATROSUL. Roumanian Navy had six OSA class missile boats, five imported from the Soviet Union, the sixth being built at Mangalia Shipyard in Roumania. But the Merit kit is not ok. The rudders and the portholes are far from reality. The real ship had three large exhausts, one for each engine (M503), and severall small exhausts for the three diesel generators…Merit just missed that. But the hull shape is all wrong. In a Polish museum there is an OSA I class missile boat. I post some photos from the museum. The difference between real ship and the Merit kit is obvious. Speed 38.5 knots, that is a legend. VPR 199- ALBATROSUL: ORP Władysławowo: http://www.miastokolobrzeg.pl/images/stories/foto/2012/008/A/wladyslawowo/010.jpg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4tsSMq_24c