![]() The Bronco kit has a small towed array sonar pod - the HB kit has the larger pod (although the box art show a smaller one!)īut I'm totally confused about what each kit represents? It is simpler than the Bronco kit - not so much external detail, such as the maneouvring thrusters or antenna on deck etc. I have the HB Akula - but haven't started it yet. Note that I have no commercial connection to AM - so I can't answer any questions about them - I'm just trying to spread the word. There is also a list of internet suppliers where the sets can be obtained. together with some colour notes and photos of the real thing for reference. Here are a couple of the 1/48 scale sets. Just what modellers have been crying out for to hang off your MiG-29 or Su-24 etc. Packaged in clear pockets, they have a list of the relevant aircraft that use them - later releases will include colour notes and, where appropriate, decals. They are superbly cast in resin - with no hint of any air bubbles or casting errors. I have just been sent some Russian weapons sets to review - from 'Advanced Modeling', based in Chelyabinsk, Russia. I decided to just have three doors open - with six tubes visible (two open showing the missile and four with the caps on).Įach tube is made up from two halves and a cap - plus a solid moulded SS-N-19 missile.Īlternate tops for the sail are provided - open and closed., Tubes and missiles are provided for all 24 locations - with open bay doors. Painting guide - the white callout for the missile bay doors is wrong!ĭecal sheet and etched-brass fret - decals are for K-141 Kursk only - and the long white waterline is not included. The remaining sprue containing missile bay doors, conning tower, dive planes, propellers etc. These are the inserts for the missile bays on each side. ![]() Two of the four sprues containing the launch tubes and SS-N-19 'Granit' cruise missiles. The hull on this monster is 17inches long! Upper and lower hull parts - with cutouts for the cruise missile tubes. He stopped answering questions, and then suddenly blurted out: 'You'll get your sons.I've just made a start on the HB 1/350 scale kit of the ill-fated Oscar II Class submarine, Kursk. His face was like stone," Mr Kolesnikov said. "Klebanov took a while to straighten his tie. She clung to Klebanov and was shouting: 'You're nothing but scum, just scum'. 'You swine, get out there and save them.' Several officers instantly rushed up and dragged her away. ![]() "A little woman in a fleecy jacket and a skirt down to her ankles ran up to him, grabbed him by the chest and started shaking him. The room erupted," Andrei Kolesnikov of the newspaper Kommersant reported. Relatives demanded to know when the bodies would be recovered from the submarine. ![]() But if it reflected badly on Mr Klebanov, he endured worse on Tuesday when, according to a Moscow journalist, he was attacked by the Ukrainian widow of a Kursk sailor. The incident was broadcast extensively yesterday, to the acute embarrassment of President Vladimir Putin's government. Despite an almost total ban on the media in Vidyayevo and at the relatives' meetings with navy and government officials, a cameraman for a local television station in the nearby port of Murmansk filmed the woman telling Mr Klebanov what she thought of him, and ordering naval officers to tear off their epaulettes.Īn officer sought to restrain the woman, who was beside herself with grief and anger and refusing to keep quiet.Ī medic then approached from the rear with a syringe and injected a sedative. ![]()
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