Hi guys, I'll be posting the build of my radio controlled, static dive Engel 1:100 scale Typhoon Submarine here over the coming months. Here's some info about the original.
The Typhoon was designed under Project 941 Russian Akula Class, classified by Nato as the 'Typhoon' Class, during the late 1970's. The first of class 'TK-208' was launched in 1981. A total of 6 Typhoons were built; with the end of the cold war, the 7th was never completed. All except TK-208 and the TK-20 (the last of the 6) are being dismantled, under a US funded scheme. TK-208 under went a lenghty 10year refit to emerge in 2002 as the Dmitri Donskoy and now acts a test bed for the new Bulava-30 missile, to be fitted to Russia's next generation of Ballistic missle submarines. The Typhoon was brought to the public eye in Tom Clancy's first novel 'Hunt for Red October', and the subsequent film. These submarines, displacing nearly 50,000 tonnes - more than twice the size of the largest Western submarines, still are and probably always will be the largest submarines ever built.
At 1/100 this is going to be a big one at 68" LOA, 9" beam and 50lbs dry. Till I get started, here are pics of the real thing....
