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davinort
PostPosted: Mon Jul 29, 2013 9:43 pm 
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Here is my OOB build of the venerable (?) Aurora kit of ... well, of something vaguely resembling a 1950's US atomic submarine. Or, as close as the mold designers at Aurora could fantasize the navy's top-top-secret atomic subs might look like. They packaged it as the USS Nautilus, and also as the USS Seawolf. It's the latter build I have done here.

Like many of us, I first built this kit 40+ years ago. I decided to try my hand at giving a proper "go" of it now.


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File comment: The box. Note the fully deployed missile while traveling underwater. The chartreuse green paint job is just about equally accurate.
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File comment: The raw materials and decal sheet.
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File comment: The completed kit, right-side view. The lighting makes it look more blueish than the actual paint job shows.
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File comment: Right front view. I have no idea if the raised deck panels "should" be outlined in white. Then again, they probably never existed, so "eh".
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File comment: Right rear view, showing deck details. As this sub never existed in this format, it is all complete speculation. The lighting seems more correct in these pictures.
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File comment: Conning tower, left side. The periscope housings are white, with blue spotting, so as to make the raised 'scopes more difficult for enemy observers to detect.
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File comment: Close-up of the Regulus missile and launch ramp. The white square on the left side would have been deck reinforcement, to prevent the missile thrust from burning though the decking.
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Christian M.
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Ah, a Sub of "Pre-Polaris" age ... Nice build! :thumbs_up_1:

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 12:38 pm 
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Thank you. I've bought several of the old Aurora ship kits, and will be giving the same treatment to each. I'd been making the Pyro 1/1200 Table Top Navy series, but my eyesight is not good enough for that small a size. The Auroras are a bit more manageable. Next up is the Aurora version of the USS Iowa.


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