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 Decals, maybe? Otherwise, it would be a major masking exercise.The Project 941 or Akula-class submarine ("Акула" in Russian, meaning ‘shark’. The Alanger kit lacks tile detail, but it's difficult to see how this could be done as scribed panel lines and yet be even slightly in scale. The Dragon (and the Revell Germany, for that mattter) kit dates from the 1980s, when the Red Banner Northen Fleet weren't releasing accurate piccies of their SSBNs, and if the CIA had accurate, detailed periscope-camera piccies of a Typhoon's tail, they weren't telling.So the Dragon kit is, at best, an educated guess. Having all 20 tubes open is no big deal - I doubt that this would ever happen in real life, there would be no need - but an accurate stern is another matter altogether. The two big differences between the Dragon 1/350 Typhoon and the Alanger kit would seem to be first, the Alanger kit has the option of all twenty missile tubes being posed open, and that Alanger have been able to look over accurate plans or, possibly, the real thing, when designing the mould for the stern. So how else is it different from the 1/350 scale Dragon Typhoon. So someone actually produced another 1/350 scale Typhoon.
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