ScootyPuffJunior

Hey everyone, a family friend of mine has asked me to build this kit for him and have it displayed as the USS Michigan (SSGN-727). I have never built a submarine (or surface ship) kit before and I was curious if there is anything that I should know before tackling this project. I know Hawk Graphics makes 1/350 naval numbers so I can display the 727 on the sail but is there any other aftermarket parts for this model that I should know about? Ahy help would be much appreciated!

Good job! I read your WIP thread on this model and I commend you on your decal work as it looked to be quite the headache.

Thanks for the positive response everyone! It is greatly appreciated. Better hurry! Fine Molds no longer carries the license to produce these kits so they are getting increasingly harder to find and more and more expensive. Bandai will be taking over the Star Wars license and begin producing models later this year. It is known that they will offer TIE fighters and X-wings in 1/72 but the quality and accuracy of the kits is unknown.

As a long time lurker, I'd like to share my first completed Star Wars model (as well as my first completed scale model in general). I began painting wargaming figures in 2012 before taking the leap in to scale models (Star Wars models specifically) this year, so I wasn't without any experience. I have just about every one of the Fine Molds models left to build (another TIE, TIE Interceptor, TIE/x1, two X-wings, Y-wing, Jedi starfighter, Slave 1, and both the 1/72 and /144 Millennium Falcon models). It will be some time before I will finish them all as I am also a commission miniature painter in addition to my normal day job, so I don't get a lot of time to work on my own projects (it does fund the hobby, so there's that). I completed this model in about four days, which is fast for me, and it was painted in Tamiya and Vallejo acrylics as well as 502 Abteilung oils. Photos were taken with a Nikon D3100 and processed with Gimp2.0. I wrote a short build log on my blog for those interested.