USS Greeneville (SSN-772)
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December 26, 2021Fairly straightforward assembly. This will be the quickest kit I’ve built in a long time.2
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December 28, 2021Fully assembled, ready for a base coat to fix seams4
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January 2, 2022Primer base coat down. Hull red next6
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January 2, 2022Anti fouling red done. The kit specifies hull red, which I didn’t have so I just used a mixture of Tamiya flat brown and red .8
January 4, 2022Matt black done. Gold props and white on the various pokey bits9
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January 9, 2022Clear coat and decals are on11
January 11, 2022Panel lining done. The light gray panel liner works nicely to emulate salt residue, which I’ll even put with12
January 12, 2022some really dilute xf-26 along the top of the anti-fouling red13
January 12, 2022Streaking along the top with dilute x-19 smoke. More streaking with xf-2614
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January 12, 2022Some brown streaks to further break up the red16
January 12, 2022More brown streaking along the hull17
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January 16, 2022Aaand done. The salt water staining didn’t show up as much as I thought it would, but overall I’m fairly happy with the result.21
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