Russian Typhoon-class Nuclear Submarine
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60 18 August 2020, 11:17
Slavo HazuchaGreat looking boomer, the open SS-N-20 tubes look very nicely detailed & you got the rubber coating surface finish really realistic 👍
18 August 2020, 13:15
Sven SchönyanWow - impressive work! Concerning modern submarines a Typhoon is very detailed but you managed bring even more life out of the rather "simple" kit.
18 August 2020, 14:46
Danumurthi MahendraThank you all! Just woke up. LoL. This is my first submarine kit project, ever! I really enjoyed working on it. There were many photo references. The hardest challenge was painting and the nuances of the weathering effects of the black surface.
19 August 2020, 02:12
Danumurthi MahendraThanks. There were a few mods that I did on the model. Notably, vigorously sanding down the rubber surface blocks, as the ones from the kit were too boxy; rescribing all the panel lines to match the top and bottom hull; masked and paint all the horizontal white waterline marks; add internal flooring in the ballistic missile hatch.
19 August 2020, 07:04
Danumurthi MahendraIf anyone is interested, I've saved the work-in-progress images here flic.kr/s/aHsmLMrkrS
19 August 2020, 14:42
Bart GoesaertThx a lot for these. For when I get around on this one. What are the kind of nets you use on the pics showing the painting of the bottom hull?
19 August 2020, 14:48
Danumurthi MahendraHi @Bart - That is the ArtoolFX mini by Gerald Mendez. It is an airbrush template to help people make organic, fluid and random paint effects. They come in a set of 3 and are made of coated cardboard. I have been using this tool ever since to create randomized weathering effects.
19 August 2020, 15:08
Sylvain VernierThe paint work on each tile is stunning, and the wheathering effects... wow 👀
8 December 2022, 15:52
Danumurthi MahendraThanks, mates! @Sylvain i made several masking templates using photo-copy paper with random holes the size of the tiles. Then I just spray different shades over them
29 December 2022, 03:45
Michael KohlI can only agree. Very convincing and realistic finish. Quite an achievement with such a big monochrome area.
29 December 2022, 17:48
Danumurthi MahendraThank you @Villiers de Vos and @Guy Rump. Yes @Michael Kohl, the hardest part was how to make the boring monochrome area into something interesting.
29 December 2022, 19:20
Danumurthi MahendraThanks@Alec, @Spanjaard and @ForestFan. Happy New Year to all!
1 January 2023, 11:11
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In 1/350 scale, this submarine kit measures almost 50 cm. This is supposed to be a simple build. However, as usual, Hobby Boss will not give you a break. For example, the top half of the hull is slightly longer than the bottom part. the kit has a workable forward hydroplane but I glued it open because the mechanism was poorly designed. Also, the doors and opening for the ballistic missiles did not have any flooring so I had to build it with styrene plate. Taking images of the Typhoon was really challenging because there was little variety or point of interest that I could show.
