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Hello! to the above differences, I will add new ones: different location of linoleum brass strips different location and cound of deck ventilators different location and count of portholes at front wall af superstructure maybe different location of ladders different main masts different location of scuppers at starboard and portside different shape of anchor holes (hawses) the left and right sides of the ship are not symmetrical in details (left and right sides of the model are symmetrical - and it is wrong!)

Small review of Microdesign photoetched detail set for Sovermenny-class destroyers 1/700 I will use for Smetlivy railings, which are not included at Combig PE for model

Good luck with your project Terry!

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I think that these models of Luda class destroyers both 1/350 and 1/200 - are toys http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/dd/plan/KaiFeng-200-ph/index.htm http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/dd/plan/Chongqing-350-f/index.htm In my opinion, these models are useless for building the model of Kotlin-class destroyer It will be easier to build the model from scratch according to the drawings Luda-class destroyers of Type 051 were based at Soviet Project 41 destroyer Neustrashimy (Tallinn class) The ships of Kotlin-class destroyers has another shapes of hull. Neustrashimy had errors in the design of the hull, so at Kotlin-class destroyers these errors were fixed

model of Soznatelnyy 1/75 at speed For more information about Kotlin-class destroyers - you can see here - photos, plans and other http://forums.airbase.ru/2008/06/t60097--eskadrennye-minonostsy-pr-56-i-modifikatsii-tipa-spokojnyj.html

This model of Soznatelny wins many Shipmodelling Championships in Russia, Belarus and other European countries Wins NAVIGA World Shipmodelling Championship and NAVIGA Europe Shipmodelling Championship This model is not only a stand model, but also a running one, and it won water competitions in Europe Author (left) with his model at World Shipmodelling Championship NS 2019 at Hungary.

Smetlivy at Sevastopol April 29 2020

My friend make his own drawings using plans of Soznatelnyy (Kotlin-class destroyer) from open sources, many photos, Russian naval forum http://forums.airbase.ru/viewforum.php?id=25 and may be information from naval archive. I think that Kotlin-class destroyers are not secret today and everybody can go to the Russian Naval Archive for information on them. And they were all retired from service by 1992-1993

In Russian SS-N-25 is Х-35 Уран or Kh-35 Uran, Nato designation of missile AS-20 Kayak. Smetlivy only the one of Kashin-class, who carry SS-N-25 And only the one, who was upgraded to project 01090 in the late 80s. In total, it was planned to upgrade 5 ships, modernization began at 2 (Smetlivy and Sposobny), and completed only Smetlivy at 1995 but several works continued to 2002. Sposobny was started to upgrade at 1987, but not finished. And sold for scrap to India in 1994. Sposobny towed from modernization at navy yard to demilitarization for future sold for scrap 1993-04-28 At 3 over ships - modernization to project 01090 was't started - Strogiy, Krasnyy Kavkaz, Krasnyy Krym Smetlivy is still in service. Last year the ship celebrated the anniversary of 50 years in service from 1969. In 2019 he made his last cruise for service to Mediterranean sea. And in 2020 the ship will be retired from service and became museum ship at Sevastopol. 🎉 In 2019 there were plans to convert Kerch (last Kara-class cruiser) and Smetlivy into museum ships, but finance was found only to preserve the Smetlivy . Unfortunately, Kerch was towed for scrap at Inkerman 2020-04-24. More photos of Kerch from scrapyard https://zen.yandex.ru/media/nefotograf/bpk-kerch-otpravlen-na-metallolom-tak-i-ne-stav-muzeem-5ea31f6813c60a44c4f2cf38

Thank you Terry! The theme of Soviet ships of the Cold War is extensive and interesting, but poorly represented by models, which causes difficulties. I hope in the future Trumpeter and Combrig will release new models of this era. My friend build beautifull model of Kotlin-class destroyer Soznatelny 1/75 Andrew

Making stand (Trumpeter - Master Tools display case) Assemble 2 Uran-launchers, radars (each radar has 10 details), 2 Volna-N AA-launchers, masts and some over details

You're right! for example the newest model of Combig - German battleship Elsass 1/350 has 30-pages instruction, 3 big PE plates, brass barrels, masts, yards, shafts, propellers and over and looks like very beautifull! But the price is not small - more than 300$

I think, that it is a problem of early models of Combrig from 2000 to 2012 years. I have modern Combrig models - 1/700 USSR light cruiser Chervona Ukraine (Svetlana-class) and 1/350 Russian Empire destroyer Schastlivy (Novik-class) - and they don't have such problems. Instructions are good, details have numbers. And these models of Kashin-class destroyers are pretty cheap - 30-40$

I started build last week and have some progress Some facts about this model: - stern is made a little wrong - there are no most of portholes and doors on superstructures - PE deatils of masts are poorly assembled - there are no some details on the wheelhouse - the pieces of the main superstructure do not match in width Welcome to all fans of resin models and the Soviet Navy