To hide the Future, I Futured the rest of the model, but this rendered They, too, settled properly with the Future. Round red-and-white decals, that were to go onto small domes, first receivedįive radial knife cuts from the rim to a point ¾ in towards the centre, and Right – I applied all of the decals, irrigated them all with Future, and It was attached firmly, but was surrounded by a glossy patch. In desperation, I liberally irrigated it with Future and hid itįuture sucked the decal right down into the detail. Pressing it down into the detail didn’t help. As well, I lightly sanded the raised tiles to impart on them a lighterĪt the place where decals were to go, I painted a layer of Future to accept theįirst of the decals, only to find that it wouldn’t stick. Logic says that the hull should be painted for the rubber anechoic tiles.Īnd besides – it was the easiest scheme. But the instructions suggest a suite of dark greys. In the film, the Red October appears to be black (even when on the surface). Internal supported from two lengths of sprue that I inserted into holes that IĬonning tower, ensuring that the base of the periscope suite (which would slideĭown, unseen, into the hull) was untouched by the glue. How come the model designers don’t think about this sort of support for Tower could be firmly pressed down while the glue set. The periscope set needed mould seams removed before being trapped between theĬonning tower halves, and the hull needed internal supports so that the conning And for some reason, there is a separate chin piece that was also hard to blendĭisplay model, I chose to ignore the seams. I thought that the hull seam would be hidden amongst the gaps between theĪnechoic tiles, but I was wrong. Movable), and I could close the hull, with the bever tail trapped between them. Towed sonar array, or a radio receiver antenna? This sub-assembly slotted into the rear of the assembled hull, but IĪttached it flush with the upper hull half, and hoped that it’d be OK on theĪlso got the fixed forward hydroplanes (but they look like they should be Real Typhoons, this fairing had a hole at the back – to feed-out the cable of a At the same time, I assembled the 3-piece fin and rudder with its Glued the missile silo doors shut – and they ‘aint perfect. In case the missile doors would have moved neatly, I greased their plasticĪxles, and trapped them against the upper hull by attaching their missile silos Well, I knew that I could supply the book and the USS Dallas then Iīlurted-out that I’d supply the Red October, too. I built the Dallas, that’s another story.įast-forward to 2012, and cue the scene where the president of my Model ClubĪnnounced that the theme for our Club’s display at the National modellingĬompetition (Model Expo) was to be ‘By the Book’. Wife loves the movie, so I bought it, and both models (for her?). The Russians tell the US that he is nuts and may launch a massive nuclearġ990, it was made into a movie, and Revell released models of the Red October,Īnd the American Los Angeles-class attack submarine, USS Dallas (which detected Tells his Fleet HQ that he and his officers are going defect to the USA. Near-silent, magneto/hydrodynamic water propulsion system, aka a Russian Typhoon-class submarine that is stealthy because of its covering of theĪnechoic tiles (rubber tiles to impede the reflection of sonar waves), and a In 1984, Tom Clancy released his book ‘The Hunt for Red October’, about a SS-N-20 Sturgeo n SLBMs in September 2012, the remaining Typhoons Stating that modernizing one Typhoon would be as expensive as building two newĪnnouncement that they’d eliminated the last The Russian Navy cancelled its Typhoon modernization program in March 2012, Though with their range, the missiles could still hit their targets if launchedįrom a submarine docked in Russia. Missiles with multiple, independently-targeted, nuclear warheads, This way, they avoided the need to transit the Sovietĭoctrine for these vessels was to patrol under the Arctic ice cap. Who may have been submerged for months on end. Submarine ever built – and bigger that most WWII aircraft carriers. With a submergedĭisplacement of 48,000 tons, the Typhoons were the largest class of NATO reporting name : TYPHOON) was a type of nuclear-poweredīallistic missile submarine deployed by the The Project 941 or Akula-class submarine ("Акула" in Russian, meaning ‘shark’.
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