Coming at this thread from another angle (I never served in the military) - back in the day when Aurora was producing their line of submarine kits, my buddy and I decided to build several and add ballast to them so they would ride at their waterline in my family's above ground pool. I built the Skipjack and put a bunch of large bolts in the belly with plenty of modeler's cement to hold them in place. (Didn't know much about solvents and plastic then - this was my first "lesson"). Of course, the cement melted and deformed the belly of the submarine. So, I did what any budding modeller out do: I ripped open the belly, put it on a base with some random "debris" scattered about and gave the whole thing a light scattered mist of green paint. In retro, it looked pretty dumb, but I was proud of it at the time (I think I still have that thing around somewhere!)

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Hint #1: Do not use magician's flash paper for recovery wadding!

Hint #2: Clean your shoes after flyin' in that cow pasture - that ain't no dirt clod on the sole!

Sorry Mark. So much for closing out the thread!

The only sub modelI ever built was a Lindbergh cut-away George Washington class SSBN. It was highly detailed on the inside with interior features, and best of all it had a little spring-loaded launcher inside one of the miss leading tubes that shot a tiny Polaris missile.

IIRC I saved for months to order it from the Johnson Smith Co.

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