Building the Red October

[PHArchivist]

I think the light grey was the same Tamiya Light grey primer I use on the Death Star. And IIRC the dark grey was a Duplicolor primer. Weathering was pastel chalks, and some washes, just mainly streaking downward.

Most of the hull detail (i.e. missile silo hatches, ladders, etc.) was printed on clear Avery self-adhesive label "paper" - my poor / lazy man's version of homemade decals.

Kit was a stock Typhoon. Had to add lots too it, and even had to extend the hull length.

 

[Tom1971]

I think the light grey was the same Tamiya Light grey primer I use on the Death Star. And IIRC the dark grey was a Duplicolor primer. Weathering was pastel chalks, and some washes, just mainly streaking downward.

Most of the hull detail (i.e. missle silo hatches, ladders, etc.) was printed on clear Avery self-adhesive label "paper" - my oor/lazy man's version of homemade decals.

Kit was a stock Typhoon. Had to add lots too it, and even had to extend the hull length.

Excellent. This will be a huge help. The more I study your pics and the pics of the large filming model to more I see needs to be done.

Thank you so much.

Tom

 

[falcondesigns]

Very nicely done.......Kudos.

 

[PHArchivist]

Thanks guys! Maybe someday I'll take a stab at a scaled up version.

 

[Jamesfett]

Thanks guys! Maybe someday I'll take a stab at a scaled up version.

How about today????

 

[Jkirkon]

I need to take some time and dig into this thread for a painting tutorial. I have a Trumpeter 1/144 Seawolf I need to get off my ass and paint.

 

[Jamesfett]

Bump for awesomeness, painting help, and inspiration!

 

[PHArchivist]

Bump for awesomeness, painting help, and inspiration!

Thank you!

Nice to see wonderful new compliments on a past project...!

 

[publiusr]

As it turns out—Typhoons never had a beaver tail

Typhoon/Akula SSBN design

I just watched a video on the Typhoon-class subs: At 5:12, this shows a photo of the sub under construction: This shows the two main pressure hulls, and the holes for the missile tubes between them. I'd always assumed the missile tubes would be inside the pressure hulls, and I had a mental...

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All the pics went away..replacements?

 

[minieffects]

I worked on the shooting miniatures at Boss film. Looks great!

 

[SergioWebster]

Yes, it looks great. At first I thought you were talking about the red october factory from the USSR.

 

[clanger68]

Late (very) to the party, but your model is incredible PHArchivist, I just got myself a Revell 1:400 Typhoon and was looking around for ideas on how to tackle a Red October and came across your amazing build/upgrade. Some serious work indeed.

 

[PHArchivist]

Late (very) to the party, but your model is incredible PHArchivist, I just got myself a Revell 1:400 Typhoon and was looking around for ideas on how to tackle a Red October and came across your amazing build/upgrade. Some serious work indeed.

Thank you!

Recently pulled this out of storage; beaver tail and a bow plane were "liberated" from the model, but retrieved and will be re-joined with the sub.

Thanks for the compliments!