1/96 Scale Shipyard Alpha

[greenman407]

I went looking thru my "Archives" for some pictures. Unfortunately, I dont have much on this type, showing the masts. Here is what I found.

[greenman407]

Ok heres a few more. Remember, you got the long sail jobs and the short sail ones.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Great job on the paint and weathering work there, Hardrock. Good stuff, Mark. Thanks, guys. It' time for me to re-visit my old 1/72 ALFA.

M

[HardRock]

Thanks men. Appreciate the photos and the feed back. And thank you David for the bits and pieces - really helped a lot. "Short sail, long sail"? Are there two versions?

[greenman407]

Sorry, I was thinking of the Akula. Scratch that.

[HardRock]

I just read that the Alpha prop was made of titanium. Does that sound right?

[Albion]

The Hull is, so it could be

[redboat219]

That's one tough machining job.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

well... laudi-da-dah!

Oh, and the ALFA's looking good too.

M

[HardRock]

Wondering if anyone (this means you Peter!) has any photographs of the Alpha's masts. Specifically the middle one with the radar dome on top.

[HardRock]

Forgot to add a thanks to Mark for the last lot of Alpha mast photographs. It seems really hard to get a clear, close up view of the middle do-daddy (technical term). So far my best guess looks like this; but its a guess.

[Peter W]

Blimey a hard one, not sure I can do much better than Mark but will post all I have....







Peter

[HardRock]

Thanks Mate. The bloody thing looks different in EVERY photograph. Originally I thought that it had a square base with a radome on top but it appears to have two plate antennas - one on each side and a planar antenna at the front. Confusing.

[Peter W]

you gotta wonder how far away it is from this Kilo mast....




Peter

[HardRock]

Looks like the plate antennas are positioned on the long axis in this photo, and there are "balls" under the radome that I can't see on any of the Alpha photographs.