Sovremenny Guided Missile Destroyer

[Foxbat]

I looked through the list of builds at the start of the chat thread and noticed the Russian navy in it's various forms was massively under-represented. Since I'm a very slow builder with a huge stash of Russian aircraft who hasn't built any kind of floaty thing in 35 years, my mission was obvious. 

 

I would have loved to do a pre-WW1 capital ship, maybe something from the Russo-Japanese war but I suspect a lot of them were bought in (I know Vickers Armstrong built a lot of ships and guns for both sides in the factories I could see from my house growing up). So I'm going for this 1980's Destroyer instead, on the basis that is was reasonably cheap and looks simple enough that I might finish it.

 

The box top:

 

The sprues (the top right one is mostly not used for this model);

 

The instructions and modest decal sheet:

 

Wish me luck, I'm about to launch

Andy

Edited May 11, 2017 by Foxbat

[Basilisk]

Thank you Foxbat for launching the first naval vessel into the GB

 

I admire your courage to have a go at a ship after 35 years

 

Cheers, Peter

[Foxbat]

And so it begins. Looking at Akan paint sets, and trying to figure out where I'm going to put all the ships I'm going to have to build to justify getting them. It's a disease I tells ya 

 

Andy

Paint collector. The models are just an excuse.