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I had a day off today, so have cleaned up and undercoated the Navwar 1/3000th scale ships for my 1960's Soviet equipped Indonesian naval fleet. The castings were pretty bad, with vertical seams and a distinct list to port due to uneven bases, so they took a bit longer than usual to clean up. The worst of the bunch were the Skory class destroyers, one of which ended up in the bin when I over sanded the hull by mistake. To make up for this I added a Don class submarine tender, one of which was supplied to the TNI-AL by the Soviets to support its Whisky class submarines. I haven't been able to find any 1/3000th scale Komar FAC's anywhere, so will probably have to scratch build some, which will be a challenge as they scale out to only 8mm x 2mm!
You might be able to contact this fellow at Shapeways (https://www.shapeways.com/product/3YEEST364/soviet-komar-class-missile-boat) and see if he can scale them down to 1/3000.
ReplyDeleteHere's another option - Bill is pretty responsive and it includes some T-43 minesweepers! https://www.shapeways.com/product/WJVYC75NK/arab-wars-set-wl-2400
ReplyDeleteI made my Komars by chopping the back end off of a load of Osa-1s. Not ideal but they look fine from a foot away
ReplyDeleteI thought about that but didn't think it would work but it's good to know that it does. I also thought about modifying some Elco PT boats with missile launch tubes.
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