Hi all

Taking advantage on a time break on my current project, I decided to attack a simple project (Oh God, I should have known better!!). So I went to one of the LHS and picked one of those newly arrived HobbyBoss 1/700 Kilo Soviet (Russian) Submarine.
All was going fine until I thougth that something was missing... So here''s the result!
A typical 1989/90 scene

Enjoy

Skipper

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

Nice Job Skip...love the presentation, mate!
Cheers,
~Mark

Looks good, Good idea.
Glad that P-3 is watching ‘em.

Nice job, the water looks great.

You almost fooled me with that black and white. In any case, very nice dio. Who does the Orion? Did those things end up on any of the carriers? MIght pick one up and put it on my NImitz, or add it to the Enterprise stuff I am collecting for a future build.

Hi Guys

Thanks for the compliments - it was a funny project!
Steve, regarding your question on the P-3 Orion, this one came from a 1990 DML/Dragon #7005 ASW Planes & Helicopters... it is now long OOP. But on some DML/Dragon "Soviet versus US/British/Japanese submarine" sets (kind of "dogfight"), the P-3 was issued twice:
- one with the set that included a Japanese submarine (Oyshio/Asashio??) versus a Soviet SSBN
- USS Dallas versus Typhoon (if my memory serves me well)

And NO, these are land based airplanes, not carrier based! The carrier version for these missions would be the S-3A Viking (jet powered) - so, your covered here.

Skipper

Nice work Skip. Love the photo.

Skipper,

Great photos and a great build.

A really nice idea, I like this diorama!

Cheers
/Christer

Nicely thought out and nicely executed Skipper.
I wonder why I can see your photos on my work computer but on most of the other posts I can't....



edit....I just realized it wasn't a post, but a feature. I have no problem seeing the feature photos at work, just the photos that are included in the forum posts.

funny, good idea and well done, but I prefer your 2 latests
JB

Thanks guys!

This was a "break time" project - without too may PE, or much work with it!
I have tried a small curve on the bow wake, as seen on photos, and I think I managed to get it. The masts and radar screens were a fast scatchbuilt task, the most difficult, on the Kilo was to scratchbuilt the glass windon on the bridge! I had to make four of those 2mm x 1mm transparent parts until I get it right, or before it flyes over the living room!!
With the P-3 Orion, improvements/ difficulties made/were:
- scratchbuilt 4 propellers (one on each set - bad injection);
- make the transparent 4 bubble windows;
- applying those small decals and hand paint the red line (propeller warning)


All in all, was a fun project! I am pleased with the result (and almost fooling Steve Joyce)
I am happy that you enjoyed

Skipper

Rui, great idea for a small diorama. Very nice effect on the water around the bow of the submarine.

Thanks for sharing

Thanks Jesper

Skipper

It is a very powerful dio. Very original.
Nice job. (How long is this sub in 1/700?)

VERY cool dio, love the aircraft and water, whole things is eyecatching.

Hi Rui!

I'll reply here so it won't be off topic on the Tin Cans campaign. This is a really cool diorama! I think I didn't see it because I wasn't really active on MSW at that time and somehow missed it. Your US P-3 is a lot more colorful than my JMSDF version, but I can only use the colors of the real thing. It's also neat how your P-3 scene is with adversaries, while mine is friendly.

But anyway, thanks for showing me!

Hi Dade

Thanks for the compliments!
The US P-3 Orion is really more colorful than the JSDAF one, but still you have made a good job on it!
My suggestion would be improving the "bubble windows" with scratchbuild ones (made out of transparent sprue)

BZ on your dio
Rui