I bought the new 1/144 Trumpeter Seawolf at the Nationals in Atlanta and have now started it. What a nightmare! The fit is pretty bad, and I have puttied, sanded, sanded, puttied and sanded some more. Did I mentioned I had to putty and sand a lot? For a 45-piece kit that I thought would be a relatively quick build, and an easy distraction from my more "involved" projects, this thing's a LOAD--and I only have the basic hull together. I just finished gluing on the sonar dome--blecccchhhh!
Anybody else build this thing? Anything else I should know before I call DuPont and order a dump truck full of lacquer putty, and deplete Home Depot of their entire stock of sandpaper?
Any and all comments are welcome.
Maybe I'm just stupid and doing it all wrong, but I would strongly caution anyone looking to buy this kit to first check their health insurance policies to see if they cover visits to psychiatrists and/or psychologists.
OK, the voices in my head are telling me I have to stop now and go back to the sonar dome. AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!
Gip Winecoff