Hey Everyone
First, just a little about me since this is my first post. I'm a 22 year old college student who recently rediscovered a hobby from the past that my father and I used to do together. Working on models in a dorm room is not ideal, but I've got extra time on my hands and to keep myself from gaining the freshman 15 (even though I'm at sophomore status) I decided to pick this hobby up again. I played football in highschool and suffered severe nerve damage to both of my shoulders, which makes me shake a lot sometimes and working with models definetely brings it out, but its something that I like to do because it is not easy for me and is rewarding. I'm probably jumping in too deep to begin with, but like I said I've got lots of spare time and eager to learn more about modeling. Anyway, on to my current project.....
I've decided to build a replica model in 1/400 of the Typhoon Class submarine from the movie "The Hunt for Red October". In the movie, the Russians called it Red October, while the Americans called it a Typhoon 7 (because they only had 6 typhoons in thier computers at the time to identify with). I tried searching on the internet for photos and information about the sub that was used in the movie, however I came up with nothing but an old page about the model released by revell called the red october. However, after inspection it seems all revell did was repackage a typhoon ssbn in a "Hunt for Red October" box. So I watched the movie very carefully, took about 4 hours as I was taking screen shots and studying things. I came up with the following information from the movie......
Red October is based on a tyhpoon class submarine
Red October is 3 meters wider and 12 meters longer than the regular typhoon
Red October has 32 missle silos and not the usual 20
She obviously has the caterpiller system
The outside markings (decals) are set differently from other typhoons, and there is no red star on it whatsoever
She has a ladder on the starboard side
And many other small things that are difficult to explain.......
I have purchased a 1/400 revell skill 3 typhoon ssbn class submarine which I'll be using, so I'm kit-bashing.
There was a great secene in the movie where you can see a schematic for the Red October so that has been very helpful. So Far I've got about 10 hours logged in and haven't even touched a model piece (I'm having a lot of fun doing the research).
I do plan on making it the 3 meters wider and 12 meeters longer (in scale of course), adding the missle silos, getting correct decals, adding catterpiller doors and everything else. If anyone has any input or anything that would be great, just thought I'd make a first post and let everyone know my idea. The only thing that is difficult to determine are the colors, there is only one scene where you actually see her out of water, but you can tell she is at least 2 different colors from the underwater shots, just can't tell what...anyway..thanks for looking and I welcome all input....