Hobbyboss 1/700 Typhoon SSBN quick build

[SimonL]

I've been working on some fairly challenging (well for me) limited run aircraft kits and happened to see this kit going very cheap (A$ 10) at a local hobby shop while looking for some paint. I figured it might be a good fun quick build while working my way through the tediousness of masking and painting canopies for my Hampden.

 

 

Not much to it.

 

 

Straight forward instructions.

 

 

 

So a straightforward quick build right out of the box.

 

First a bit of weight in the bottom of the hull.

 

 

You have an option of having the planes out or in, I went for out.

 

 

The hull halves fitted well together, and in no time at all I had an alomost complete submarine. The sail at this point is not glued to the main hull.

 

 

 

She's an impressive beastie, even in this small scale.

 

So on with the paint. First the underside of the hull, for which I used Italeri Acryl Rust. That's it for today. 

 

 

[SimonL]

Painting continued. I painted white around the hull, which I masked with 1 mm wide Tamiya tape. I also used Tamiya tape to mask the break between the underside colour and the topside colour. Then a couple of brushed on coats of Tamiya NATO black. On unmasking I am pretty happy with how it worked out. A few little bits to tidy up, but I think it's worked out quite well.

 

White line painted on with Italeri Acryl flat white.

 

 

Masking completed.

 

 

First coat of NATO black.

 

 

Masking removed. 

 

 

 

[SimonL]

Well after the best part of 4 years I’ve finally finished this! Just needed som little touch ups. Didn’t take any in process photos of the decalling stage. More images shortly in RFI.