Well i'd like to keep the price of this model to a minimum since its my first in a long time and im not sure how it'll turn out.

I'll do the best i can with what i got here :)

Well this is a drag, i looked around 3 stores and none had the paint i needed.

I ended up buying a Testors kit which had most of the paints i needed (flat black, flat grey etc)

Hopefully the colors will come out okay, fingers crossed.

Theres a site I happened across a very long time ago, had some neat stuff and I wanted to buy a couple Balao kits just to try it out. But in my budget it was a far stretch and life won.

Iron Bottom Sound

Wanna turn your Balao into a GUPPY? :D
they also have kits to convert those big 1/72 kits into Guppy boats!

Painted the conning tower, the colors seem to come out just fine, what a relief
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Getting there

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The hull number on the tower is crooked, im kicking myself for letting that happen :nope:

Not much left to do :D
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Here she is :yeah:

All done

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Nice looking boat. :yeah:

I can't tell in the pictures but did you run the wire from the periscope shears to the after deck? :hmmm:

Might do that in the future... Gonna be busy the next few months so i had to finish it quickly.

Great work I see you took my idea about the dive planes in the surfaced position.

I think it looks better that way, thanks for the idea :)

That looks really good! I'm gonna have to get another one someday. :ping: