Scratch Built 1/48 scale Yankee Russian CUTAWAY Submarine model.

[seaman hornsby]

If your on facebook, enter into the search engine------Bruce's Scale Modeling Domain. Go to his photos page, and scroll down to the submarine model. Looks pretty impressive.

[scott t]

https://www.facebook.com/BrucesScaleModelingDomain/photos?ref=page_internal

About 42 clicks down on the side bar slider.

[tsenecal]

38 photos starting with

https://www.facebook.com/BrucesScaleModelingDomain/photos/pb.356160371142748.-2207520000.1459195293./900941636664616/?type=3&theater

[sam reichart]

amazing work.

[ssn705]

Bummer, I refuse to do the Facebook thing because of my job so it stinks when I can't get a look at stuff like this. Oh, well.

Cheers,

Dave

[Ralph --- SSBN 598]

Dave,
click on the link in post # 3, it will display one photo that represents the work without having to be a part of facebook.

[QuarterMaster]

Amazing, the level of detail and commitment. But what really get's me, if this is truly accurate, what life was like aboard these boat's. Having lived aboard a JAMES MADISON variant of the LAFAYETTE Class, I always wondered how the other side lived.

Familiar, yet different. They seem to use a lot of "yellow" while the US prefered that pale "seafoam" green (or grey). I was told studies were done on long term isolation and that the "green" had a calming effect, along with the "wood grain" formica we used. I remember touring K-77 Juliet Class up in Rhode Island back when we met at Johnstown, what a difference from what we had as US Sailors!

Also, long the bottom of the pressure hull I don't see any of the internal hard (open to sea) or soft (never subject to sea pressure) tanks we had such as Fwd/Aft Trim, Aux Trim, Hover, Sanitary Tanks 1,2 (120 men make a lot of waste!)...., maybe the different design philosophies kept them external? For that matter, why the batteries so far forward? We had them in the ops compartment below the sail, more mid ship, where I think all that lead weight would want to go. Also, I can't believe the scopes and masts were exposed like that on all the decks. The only way you could put a hand freely on a scope tube was on #1 and #2 at the Conn. But then again the modeler could have them exposed like that for visual effect. Maybe the polished silver tubes are the "wells" themselves? Also....wooden dressers??

I could go all day on this

So many questions. I could spend a week with a boomer sailor from the other side!

Not at all knocking this beautiful model, but if it is accurate, we were so similar, yet so different in our design philosophies.

It is an amazing build. Definitely museum quality.