Hobby Boss' Cruise Missile Submarine Kursk in scale

Philippe
Nice Job 🙂

Treehugger
When painting the white window frames, I initially airbrushed white using tiny tiny bits of masking tape, but because of how tiny the bits of tape is, they are hard to position. I eventually had to hand painted the white frame with a tiny brush, based on what was already painted with the airbrush. I might have painted black as well to try create a more clean white line to correct even more. With a gloss coat over it all, it all blends nicely.

Daniel Klink
Very cool and clean build and Paintjob Treehugger! The tiny white lines wow👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Beautiful and clean build! 👍 Could it be that the starboard propellor is dented?

Patrick Hagelstein
By the way, is that white waterline line a decal or did you paint that as well?

Daniel Klink
Hi As far as i know only the smaller white stripes come as decals with the kit.

Treehugger
Thanks everybody. 🙂

The white waterline was airbrushed on, white onto black, and using Tamiya's new white curves masking tape. Careful, that white tape for curves stretches, which might cause a couple of issues, to best to only let the tape stretch a little when making subtle bends and not trying to stretch it lengthwise across a ship's hull. Tricky and perhaps unwise to make sharp bends. Iirc 2mm wide tape. This was the first time I used this new tape so I did not know quite what I was doing.

It was only later that I realized that one of the prop blades had been knocked out of alignment. I didn't even notice it when I took the photos, heh, too busy taking photographs. Btw, I used the digital zoom from maybe 1m off, to avoid having a weird distortion to the perspective, should look more realistic this way.

For the red and white hatch, I simply made an oversized circular patch of regular masking tape, so that the tape then covered the entire domed shape. I think I used the hole, for airbrushing on red color, and then added three bits of triangular masking tape, and then airbrushed on white. Very happy with the result.

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Treehugger
I remember scratch building the rear part of the two prop blade spinners, using bits of styrene. Happy with the result, as the molded part looked too thick, and hard to correct, so I just sanded that detail off and glued on bits of styrene, THEN, I sanded the styrene into final shape. 🙂

Patrick Hagelstein
Whauw! Thanks for the explanation! 👍

Treehugger
Another photo showing me heh peeling off the masking tape from the water line. Very satisfying. 😄

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Treehugger
One think I learned by airbrushing such a large model, is that, once you airbrush on the black, it looks very nice, however from that point and onwards, it is easy to bump or scratch the painted surface, so maybe a good idea to add the first layer of gloss coat sooner rather than later.

Treehugger
A small comment that I thoguht was fun adding. I have since learned that the Soviets loaded their torpedoes into the ship via torp tubes that were above the water line. I see now that this matches what is seen on this kit. 🙂

Slavo Hazucha
Nice sub 👍 Reminds me of playing the "Cold Waters" PC game a year or so ago 🙂 The home-made props really do a lot for bringing the proper scale feeling to this giant 👍