As it turns out my selection paralysis was short lived. [:P]
It seems I have a hankering to break out of the familiar and comfortable. First the Ma.K. and now this model.
From what I can gather this series is the brain child of the manufacturer. I gotta say, space submarines camouflaged with chunks of asteroid and firing rock torpedos is pretty cool.
Cracked it open tonight and so far I like what I see.
Cool subject! I’ll enjoy following your build.
Oh I am looking forward to this. Very cool project. [Y]
Yes, that looks like great fun. First I’ve seen a ‘space submarine’. Cool concept.
Very cool looking and I’m sure it will be impressive.
But a Submarine in Space?[:O]
Sub= beneath, below, under, ect.
Marine= sea, ocean, ect.
So many questions[*-)]—So I’ll just shut up and go along for the ride, Reality is overrated in modeling any way.
The guy who thought this up must have been a Space Battleship Yamato fan. The TV series had a meme-worthy episode where the crew used small asteroids to form a defensive ring around their ship. It show up in the opening title sequence.
In the newer Yamato reboots, the bad guys had “dimensional submarines”, which could “submerge” from normal space and navigate hyperspace or something like that.
Apologies for being silent for a while there. I’d been reminded that I had responsibilities for my spare time outside of building models. [:P]
So my yard got lots of attention and in the process I overworked muscles no longer accustomed after a winter of atrophy. Sunday comes around and my hands are shaking so bad that I can’t even use nippers to remove parts from the sprue.
Good news is that after taking it easy the rest of Sunday the tremors are gone and I can finally get this started!
More to come!
Hey Duster, thanks for stopping by!
LOL.
I had much the same first reaction. Then the following came to me and it all made sense.
Space has often been referred to as a vast ocean of stars, and since stars are everywhere in space, one is always under it’s ocean.
Too much of a stretch? [:)]
… so how do the rocks look? Are they good, or will you be reaching for aftermarket asteroids? [:P]
Good news, indeed. [Y]
Ok, that sent me on a quest to find out what the market for asteroids is like. Turns out the only aftermarket asteroids available are meteorites and at $6 a gram (for the cheap ones) I think I’ll stick with kit provided ones. [:D]
Besides they look pretty good! I think that with the right paint job they’ll do just fine!
At 1/700 scale there isn’t a lot fine detail but they did a great job using form to give an impression of greater detail.
Turns out there is an included recon space plane.
I assume the “pontoons” are actually oxidizer and fuel tanks. 
This looks like a really fun project. Should be really fun to paint
Very cool Phoenix, loving your choices!
Funny back in the '50s the Dean Drive was pushed as a reactionless drive. Though SF editor John Campbell jumped on board to promote the thing it later turned out to be a hoax. Being reactionless the idea was to place it in a atomic submarine, since the atomic reactor needed no oxygen from the air to run and the sub was a sealed air-tight enviroment you had an instant spacecraft.
Great subject choice. I will be watching this one. I love the concept.
Hi!
I was surprised by this. Now, do you have any construction sites around you? You might be able to find Natural Rocks that might work in place of the plastic ones. Put one together, and take it with you and use it to find matches in shape and size. Real rocks can be painted and weathered too!
John Ringo ressurected the notion in his Looking Glass series where there are sace-time lenses that can be harnessed for nearly unlimited energy. A US SSBN, “USS Nebraska” is fitted out and become the Alliance Space Ship Vorpal Blade.
That’s the hope! I planning on using the Vallejo Kriegsmarine colors for the ship. Seems fitting. And I am using surface navy colors because that is what I have. 
Awesome tie-in to the subject! Sadly the story greatly predates my own subscriptions to Analog. Love the magazine! It’s how I keep my sci-fi addiction under control. I’ve fallen behind by several years but am working on getting caught up again. [:P]
Thanks Captain! I read a lot of Ringo’s stuff. But I checked out after a few of the Posleen War novels. Just seemed like all of them had pretty much the same plot with the names switched around. Very cool that he brought back such a cool old idea.
Phoenix: Yeah that’s me- repository of weird and useless information! Never read Astounding/Analog myself. When I started reading in the early '80s I went for paperbacks mostly and never got into SF magazines.
Hmm, that is something worth considering. I was thinking the model’s panels were rather smooth so their albedo would be way to high for an asteroid. Making it a dead give away that it’s a man made object. I was considering adding something like ash to some paint and brushing it on as a way to give the rocks more texture.
In a surprising turn of events. While looking at the asteroid faces I discovered that rather than using a convenient attachement on the inner surface, they designed it so that there was a simple supporting latticework on the opposite side making the rocks just a facade. Now this isn’t something you’d likely see during normal presentation. Intersting that they included that level of detail.
By the way, over exposure to sci-fi get’s people casually tossing around words like “albedo”. [:)]