Recently I received a 1/72 Permit kit from Joel Stadnick at HMK (my write-up of the kit contents is in the latest SCR). Since then I've basically been tinkering with the parts, trimming flash, and fitting things together.
This weekend I got to put in some shop time. Having been down this road before with a ThorDesign Permit I plowed through a z-cut, the indexing lips, MBT floods, installing and truing up the sail, and mounting the bearings for the stern appendages. The stern planes are not installed permanently quite yet -- I'm still fine tuning the fit. Overall it was a pretty eventful weekend.
Been also doing research on the class to decide which boat to build. Along the way I was fortunate enough to strike up a conversation with a former CO of USS Guardfish (SSN-612). As a result I've settled on depicting his boat as it was in the summer of '72 when she famously trailed an Echo II from Russia to Viet Nam.
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This weekend I got to put in some shop time. Having been down this road before with a ThorDesign Permit I plowed through a z-cut, the indexing lips, MBT floods, installing and truing up the sail, and mounting the bearings for the stern appendages. The stern planes are not installed permanently quite yet -- I'm still fine tuning the fit. Overall it was a pretty eventful weekend.
Been also doing research on the class to decide which boat to build. Along the way I was fortunate enough to strike up a conversation with a former CO of USS Guardfish (SSN-612). As a result I've settled on depicting his boat as it was in the summer of '72 when she famously trailed an Echo II from Russia to Viet Nam.
