1204m Shmel Riverine gunboat by RGL - Tiger Model - 1/35 - PLASTIC

[RGL]

Time to get back to ships (well boats), I bought this monster and after doing some weathered 1/35 military stuff I’m ready for this. As it’s So yet era I can weather the absolute hell out of it and add some decent size figures. 

[RGL]

This thing is certainly going to take a LOT of paint. Not a hard build and being Soviet it’s pretty industrial 

[yvesvidal]

That should be interesting. I know that when you are done, it will be difficult to distinguish the model from the real ship.

 

Yves

[patrickmil]

Question: Is the deck a dark brown or is it that orange/red that larger Soviet ships had?

[RGL]

Photo time, there is a Russian language modelling site which I have gotten the images off. It appears that the boats were a brown water navy during the soviet era.

[RGL]

And in more modern times, in a camo (which I will not do)

[RGL]

Hull together, some big seam gaps fixed up.
 

next will be to scribe in some hull welds , 

[Canute]

The turret looks like the ones used on their amphibious tank, the PT-76. Yes, very industrial, Greg.

[BANYAN]

Nice to see you back to your maritime roots Greg.  This looks like it will be a very interesting build and I am sure you will enjoy going to town with your weathering on a model of this size.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[RGL]

Lower hull, I still need to do some scribing but I’m also tossing up as to if I’ll put it in a resin base. 
 

anyways, the kit completely omits the fender which is on the stern. I glued two small strips of hardwood together and sanded it to shape. You can see from the white bits I’ve done a lot of putty so far. 

Edited yesterday at 03:18 AM by RGL