Submarines are visually boring
I've been interested in submarines since I was a kid; it's the fault of Microprose's Silent Service (I'd post graphics from the game, but it doesn't have any.) This is a 1/700 Los Angeles class I built a long time ago. Like many modern subs, it is a tube with a sail. It is, mind you, an incredibly successful class of submarine, the American Military-Industrial complex at its finest. Like the USN Gato-class subs or the Fletcher class destroyers, it was built in vast numbers (62) with the later 23 being the improved 688i, which is still in service now; not bad for a basic design from the 1970s. Still, though: Toob. So when I bought some small submarines a while ago, I decided to paint them like sea creatures Painted normally: Delta III The Delta 3 is a Soviet ballistic missile submarine (SSBN or 'boomer' depending on who you are) that is fairly distinctive. Its humpback shape conceals the missiles with the canned sunshine inside. The Delta series (1-4) was...