Max Kohnke
Jacksonville,
Florida
“When a
co-worker said his grandfather [Cmdr. David R. Connole] was the last skipper of
SS-237 Trigger, I
showed him the Revell 1/72 scale Gato I’d built before,” Max says. “He asked me to do a weathered
one for his family. Trigger
was lost with all hands in 1945, so I was only too happy to do it.” Max hoisted
the kit’s American flags, made decals for the banner, logo, and plaque, and used
dry transfers for the numbers. He sprayed the hull with Krylon and Tamiya flat
black and light ghost gray enamels, then weathered with dark rust powdered
pastels. He finished with Krylon flat clear on the hull and Testors Dullcote on
the fairwater.