The Kit comes with torpedoes as the outer tube doors can be modeled open with the Fish leaving them. USS Georgia's mission is one of stealth and secrecy. I thought it much more likely She'd launch Tomahawks, than torps, so I modeled the outer doors closed. No red boat is going to notice Her passage, until it's too late. :zen
Rudders installed. I think I've got the huge hull seam licked! FINALLY! I had hoped to paint some today, but I broke some ungainly antenna housings off the stern of Georgia.
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:smack
I try to build a "Straight Model". I REALLY do!! I just cain't. I'm naughty.
I told a story about how this impressive young Officer was so uncharacteristically excited when news of his Son's birth reached him, that he swam out of the Boat to get home to see his new, sweet, Boy. I didn't have a 1/350 scale screen-door, but I had an extra hatch about. Other Guys leave the Boat while She's submerged. They come back too!
Major assemblies in almost one piece. The new mine-finding SONAR allows USS Georgia to safely navigate the treacherous hedge apple/oak leaf minefields of Iowa.
Brass antenna housing replacements, with antennas extended. I'm posing 2 of the missile tubes open, so Georgia needs these instruments extended.
The missile hatches fit nearly as well as the rest of the
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:facepalm :vmad :stinker Kit does. I will hinge just 2. She's coming together.
Thanks for looking in!