HobbyBoss Russian Akula

[Onkel Neal]

I'm waiting on paints for the Ohio so I've set it aside and I'm working on an Akula. Everything was going pretty well until I started adding the photo-etched hatches. Super glue, right? Jeesh, it was really hard. Very tiny pieces. I got them cut out, picked them up with my finest set of tweezers, and dabbed them on a bubble of superglue. Then place the piece and hold for a while.... when I release the tweezers, 9 times out of 10 the piece was stuck to my tweezers!

I carefully clean the tweezers, repeat. Eventually I got all the hatches on but it's really messy looking



I'm going to try and use a different glue next time, someone steered me to Mig Ultra Glue for PE and clear plastic parts.

Primed and painted the bottom half, happy with the tape job but of course some of the primer came off with the tape


I guess when I mask off the bottom half to paint the top half, I'll shoot another coat of primer first.

I bought 2 of these Akula models so this is a practice run!