Hello!
This is my second Arkmodel Redshark RC submarine Kit conversion. I started it around 2017/2018, originally i retained most of the model as-sold, only changing the looks into a (to me) more attractive design, modifying the servo horns, engine mount and adding a piston balast tank etc. See pictures in the attachment, they wont show up in the post!
The boat was then ready, only missing painting it.
1,5 years later i figured the electronics, i.e. the corona receiver, were not working anymore for unknown reasons. After replacing it, i found there was still more to do on the boat and started all over again. The original upper deck got loose etc.
So i tried several new configurations to turn the boat into something more realistic, including conversion into an Akula-III after making a scale master model for the conning tower, a Charlie I, again with making molds for extra parts( sail, bow, sterncone). However i kept returning tp my original idea, a minimalistic model based on the original kit. I very much like the plane-like atrangement of the large forward bowplanes like on early british nukes.
I stepped over an envisioned Kriegsmarine Nuclear sub at Deviantart, somehow settled around the novel "Vaterland" of Robert Harris, a 1960's era "what-if Germany won WWII" fiction.
The boat was then modified to that image, using a black and grey paint scheme, russian-design emergency buoys, minimal deck detail and the "Puff" casings at the end of the stern planes i always found cool since watching Hunt for Red October with the flawed USS Dallas model. The stern was lengthened with a new cone, the planes were changed from all-flying to a convetional stabalizer-flap type except for the lower rudder.
Need to apply draft marks and flat clearcoat. The internals need a makeover,too. I figured my 14,4v twin battery caused the electronics failure.
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