Roger Newsome

Thanks very much Terry. Not long to wait now.

Cheers Beefy, almost there with it now.

This is great, every time I Google search a potential purchase Ken has already done it and it's on here. 😆 Nice work and a great help. Roger.

Decals applied and a coat of gloss. Next step will be some minimal weathering.

Further progress....

Thanks very much Beefy. For the props I'm thinking of something similar to your suggestion, olive green washes over a pale khaki.

The plan worked. Now I need to find a colour to paint the props. I'm not a fan of a highly polished metallic effect so looking to do a kind of mucky buff colour.

I'm going to take them down the beck and see if they survive a trip over the waterfall. 😯

Bob @Retired Bob reminded me this morning I hadn't posted any updates on this so here goes. The sharp eyed among you will probably notice this isn't the usual submarine colour, don't worry I know what I'm doing. 😆

Fantastic, thank you very much! 🙂 There's no way I would have got those Zevzda monstrosities assembled in the time it will take for them to cross the Atlantic and be delivered.

Excellent work in progress Ken. I just thought I'd post my appreciation as it is helping me no end with my own build of this kit. I didn't get two prop blades fitted before I gave up and took your advice and hit ebay for a set of replacements from Michael @Woodstock74😀 Roger.

I'm working on this at the moment. I didn't bother with any photos up to now as there is very little to show during the construction. The stbd missile doors will be added in the open position once the interior has been painted. I decided not to try and manipulate the prop blades to make them look more realistic, that's just asking for trouble, so yes, I bottled it. 😆

Very nice Terry. A few submarine kits have arrived here in the past few weeks. 😁

Or in nautical circles, "I can see clearly now the radar's on."

Back at it!!!

I'm home on leave now so able to take a much better photo.

Thanks very much Beefy. 🙂👍

Hobby Boss 1/350. I really enjoyed building this, there a pretty good likelihood there could be more Hobby Boss sun dodgers waiting for me when I get home.

Decals on....

And there's me calling them pokey up things. 😂

Four days to get to this stage Beefy, there's not a lot to though and I probably should have done some work in the afternoons. 😄

A demonstration of impatience, gloss coated this evening instead of waiting till tomorrow.

I'm finding submarines a bit addictive at the moment (funnily enough I didn't think so when I was based at Faslane 😂). There wasn't any wip photos prior to this because the ships wifi is bring even more uncooperative than usual. However there's little to be said or seen about the construction phase anyway. Painting done with various dark greys on a black base coat. I'll give it a Gloss coat tomorrow prior to the few decals going on.

I don't think there's much more I can do on this till I get home. Getting a bit artistic.... The insulators on the jumping wires don't look too good close up. 😟

Thanks very much Stuart. "Personally, the only thing that should be matt on a sub is the deck." Agreed, unless it's wet of course and then I think it would need a sea base to put it in context, my next step.