SPA Modeler

This is this months model. Because of the way life is right now I have decided to pick a model at the beginning of each month that is at the point where I feel I can finish it in that month. This should help me focus my modeling time on finishing something. Roughly half of my home time is split between our house and my mothers so I will grab a kit when I go over there and just cut and stick parts together until I get to a point where I have to fill, sand, paint, detail etc. and then that kit stays at home where my work area is and I grab another kit and do the same thing. So anyway, this is the victim of the month; this poor little guy has been sitting around for quite a while being built, waiting for paint, after being painted, until I just need to get this off my bench before I break too much more stuff off of him!





With some paint on!



The painted and weathered insert for the sail interior. I painted and weathered the insert then pushed it into the sail and glued it before adding the sail to the hull. This way I could easily get to all the details to paint them, the interior of the sail also has wood panel decals added that will probably never be seen (wood panels were fastened to the interior walls to prevent the sailors clothes from freezing to the bare steel walls in frigid weather).

Weathering has now started, I am using this model to play around with using oil paints extensively.

Off to a great start! Love me some subs. I think 1/144 is a good scale for boats of that area.

That's a relly nice subject! And indeed, as Torben also writes, the scale is good for such !

- Kari

Looking good, Scruffy!

Nic.e!

Very nice!

That is a very ideal looking sub to me! Coming along very nicely

KSaarni wrote:That's a relly nice subject! And indeed, as Torben also writes, the scale is good for such !

- Kari

I agree with you guys, 1/144 is a very good scale for these kits, not too large, but large enough to have nice detail and a decent "presence" on the display shelf. I have one or two others, Mikro Mir's Walters Boat, and this recent release



I also got the Micro Design or Metallic Details (one of them, makes it ) photo etch detail; set as well.

Oh very nice! A Soviet WWII sub! The kits you mostly see are German (of course), Japanese, and US. I can’t recall ever seeing an injection molded Italian or Royal Navy WWII sub kit.

Quite true, though Mikro Mir have released a couple RN Subs in 1/350 scale I think. Beyond that it is a smattering of resin kits.