Revell Typhoon-Class Soviet Submarine 1:400 scale

A full build review of my latest project Revell's 1:400 scale nuclear submarine the Typhoon .

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

I remember it was in the movie The Hunt for Red October where it was the first time I had ever heard of the Russian Typhoon Class Submarine and man it is insane how huge these things are.

[@Brianthehistorynerd]

I can remember doing this kit when The Hunt for Red October came out. They labeled it the Red October on the box with Connery’s picture. Really nice kit.

[@blondknight99]

Me too! That was 30 years ago.

[@Lee78072]

One Ping only....

[@Lee78072]

To remove seamlines on a Surface with so much Detail like this must be a "Joy".

[@jjab99]

That is one HUGE Submarine!!!! And a HUGE model of a HUGE Submarine too!!! Many thanks for sharing this video with us today and allowing us to follow the building and painting of the model. You have done a fantastic job on this model and I just love it. Best of luck with your next model project and have lots of fun, Joe

[@scalemodelling76]

Thanks Joe, really appreciate the kind comments ! Take care .

[@HerfingPug]

Marvellous. A magnificent tribute to a magnificent beast. Thank you.

[@themechanic.9545]

"Vashilli, One Ping Only..." - Capt. Ramius; The Hunt for Red October (1990)

[@randycheow5311]

You arrogant ass you killed us

[@31069johnny]

Scott Myers ; movie was great but book was awesome!

[@GJones462-2W1]

Actually, it's "Give me a ping, Vassily. One ping only, please."

[@898792]

so i think they may have actually modeled it of the hunt for red october typhoon. the bow of the sub is wronng in terms of shape and there shouls be a housing around the propellers. pretty good paint work though.

[@omkr0122]

Cold this morning Captain! (In Russian)

[@LHoriginal]

Сегодня утром холодно, капитан

[@alphamercstudios]

The rubber tiles isn't for noise reduction, it's for sonar absorption. The Germans were the first to use rubber so that their U-Boats could go undetected for longer because it won't show up on any sonar devices

[@SirRathalos]

Wow she's a beauty, a big beauty! Great finish on the model, with some realistic weathering! Keep up the good work! Thanks

[@scalemodelling76]

Cheers, appreciate the comment !

[@gianluigimarino8264]

Best model and great work!

[@shoe2241]

really nice job, i built one of these many yrs ago when the movie came out.

[@reconranger1370]

Really nice job guy! I recently watched a documentary about this sub and it was a BIG one. 2 nuclear reactors if I remember correctly. Nice build, thanks for sharing!!

[@scalemodelling76]

Thank you !

[@crackercookies]

Whats the name of the documentary?

[@liamcraven4936]

Fantastic job! Very cool.

[@scalemodelling76]

Thank you!

[@MsixtyA3]

Excellent job!!!

[@scalemodelling76]

MsixtyA3 thank you !

[@jaimerote3497]

Very nice, I always like this model!!!

[@scalemodelling76]

Thank you ! Yeah it has an appeal to it .

[@bigearedmouse17]

enjoyed this build thanks for the upload. new subscriber

[@scalemodelling76]

Thanks !

[@GJones462-2W1]

The Typhoon has 2 big shrouds that cover the screws. They're not exposed like Revell's model shows. Plus it's missing the 2 seawater intake inlets that look like two protruding scoops near the back of the boat, at the 4 and 8 o'clock positions on the hull.

[@stevemahalko1720]

Nice job pal !

[@vindicari]

excellent build but the stern on the kit is completely wrong. Typhoon class has ducted propellers staggered vertical planes and separate dive planes.

[@JD-pq2ym]

Revell got this kit wrong multiple times. The earlier revell kit release had a bulbous bow in addition to the above inaccuracies. But honestly, it is a pain finding accurate literature/photographs of Russian/Soviet vehicles either because they got gutted very quickly when they failed or blown to shreds by Japan or Germany, or just some classical Soviet extension of the truth. I do exclusively Russian/Soviet stuff, (why?) because I am a glutton for punishment.

[@Menudofan1985]

Nice work. I have one sitting in the garage waiting to be built. This I believes is revels kit from when the movie came out. It is accurate to the studio model. The real typhoon is slightly different. It wouldn't take mucj to add the caterpillar drive at the reZr a d the doors to the front. Nice weathering. Really captures the loook of a Russian sub

[@scalemodelling76]

Thank you very much !

[@Dirks_NUMA_Files]

Man that is wicked cool. I want one so bad but refuse to pay the prices they want for the kits.

[@scalemodelling76]

Thanks ! Yeah they can be expensive .

[@whatyoudo9773]

you know i had your vid on behind doing some other work, the music is great!

[@Nyc_Artois]

I like the song you used for your intro

[@stevemahalko1720]

Ya pal... i'm watching this for the second time. The Conning tower crack and the one on the Vertical stabilizer... that VALLEJO thin bead nozzle would have put a bead right in the crack. Its water clean up to...all you would have to have done was wet your finger and wipe ! No sanding...really….try it.!!

[@thebritishpanda6545]

love the rising storm music xD

[@milolll]

thick blades

[@christophersnyder1532]

Nice job, I like the panel lines on the hull. It would be interesting if there was a pool for the model. I built Dragon's 1/700 Typhoon, years ago. take care, and all the best.

[@scalemodelling76]

Christopher Snyder thanks you too !

[@dcdrew3]

That's the 1 thing about Revel models. You have to use putty 99% of the time, or you just leave the gaps. I remember building this when it 1st came out. I left it black, cause that's what it looked like in the movie, even though the instructions had the paint diagram on it. Now I wish I would've took the time to do it right.

[@noone8958]

This sub remind me of some game i forgot

[@mikerinehart]

Very Nice. Almost got this kit the other day but I may hold out for a 350th scale from Dragon. How did you do the waterline? Is that a decal or did you mask and paint?

[@scalemodelling76]

Thank you ! Yeah the waterline is a decal !

[@stevemahalko1720]

Hey guy.. nice work. Hint ...try VALLEJO...70.401 Acrylic Resin. Its semi- liquid...water based and SOOOO much easier to sand and clean up...really. Happy modeling.

[@petras8385]

Nice. I would like to try and build a submarine model sometime

[@xb70valkirie31]

カッコいい！！！

[@maxydaxy5362]

The damn thing was built to start a war!

[@Found_Fitness_Footage]

maxy daxy not to START a war...to be ready for the war

[@Jakubescu]

Dont forget, Russians dont start wars they finish them. This sub was built to stop the war. as you can see not Russia but the USA builds up armies in Europe to start another war. These idiots will never learn from history.

[@arodrigues2843]

maxy daxy Weapons of MASS destruction.... ...to KILL millions of people...

[@ksp-crafter5907]

@@Jakubescu so true... so true!

[@Lammedreng]

Nice build :) Btw which creedence song is that in the beginning?

[@scalemodelling76]

BadMuzzy thank you, it’s run through the jungle

[@emperoroftheknownuniverse3475]

Nice, but where's the caterpillar drive?

[@azynkron]

It was just a seismic anomaly... nothing to worry about

[@TOFMDrone]

try talking like a whale; hhheeeeellllooooo

[@JustAnotherDayToday]

TOFMDrone > That sounds like upset stomach. 😂

[@arodrigues2843]

Emperor Of The Known Universe Only on the Red October.!!! Krasna Oktobiar.??? Miss Tom Clancy... RIP, my friend.....

[@charlesballard5251]

Yeah, I couldn't believe it when I heard he was dead. Only 66 years old. "The Hunt for Red October" and "Red Storm Rising" changed my life. And prepared me for nuclear sub sims.

[@Jeka42rus]

хорошая лодка получилось

[@Valdas-Shikardas]

Waterline painted quite low - on real photos its situated about 1m below horizontal rudder, and here i see waterline goes down from stern, but it should be at one lvl across the hull.

[@pangeriamicronation2342]

I am planning on buying this set because of my love for soviet submarines, I do not have any experience with building kits is this a hard one to start with?

[@lordcutlerbeckett3060]

Soviets stronk

[@vladancovic9998]

Hi, nice video and model to. Can you say what kind of airbrush you using and nozzle size and with wat you diluted vallejo model color?? Thanks.

[@scalemodelling76]

Hi, thank you ! I'm using a Veda WD-180 with a 0.3mm needle and nozzle . As for the Vallejo model colour I dilute using Vallejo's airbrush thinner .

[@bigearedmouse17]

"Am still here you Bastards" Steve Mcqueen Papillon !

[@PhuVet]

I think the name the song is "stuck reverb pedal"

[@hdhrdfsrkgh]

I'm drawing this

[@grobigrobian1003]

Es wäre doch einfacher manche Teile vor dem einkleben zu bemalen, oder ?

[@Skybaby79]

Be careful, some of these things don't respond well to bullets

[@krzysztofjarzyna3194]

It is not a real Project 941 Akula (Typhoon) - but the Red October from the movie. The screws should have shrouds. And there should be two stern planes right behind each of the screws - there is no one center stern plane. Torpedo tubes should be in two columns - not rows. Front is too wide and should have not these two rails coming from the top.

[@devil5051000]

Is that a recently released kit or is it a re release of the Revell Typhoon from the early 90s? Screws and rudders are miles off compared to the real counterpart.

[@thethirdman225]

The silos are too far apart too.

[@glennchampion1001]

can the torpedo hatches close or are they fixed like that. ALSO is this thing all black when you get this or white as usual

[@scalemodelling76]

no the torp hatches are closed and yeah the plastic is all black

[@khanjohn94]

What type of glue you used there pls let me know.thanks

[@scalemodelling76]

khanjohn94 tamiya extra thin glue !

[@PhuVet]

Need a 1/400 Alpha and Akula

[@paulalderson6920]

The blades on the props look very thick and not to scale. Can this be fixed in any way?

[@scalemodelling76]

I suppose you could file them down or maybe make your own . I just built it out of the box .

[@paulalderson6920]

I wonder if there after-market props available? Probably not much call for them unlike aircraft market.

[@scalemodelling76]

I'm not sure . Can you buy thin metal sheet ? you could maybe cut and make your own propellers and insert then into the hub ?

[@spamhopte8]

Oy man, you start collecting soviet battle ships? Its so great! Can you built heavy atomic cruizer Puotor Velikiy?

[@erickutepow]

Is this kit still available? I had the Red October kit as a kid

www.amazon.com/Revell-400-Sovietsubmarine-Typhoon-Class/dp/B018FQWFNA/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1Q9J55RONISGN&keywords=typhoon+class+submarine+model&qid=1574428430&sprefix=typhoon+class+submarine%2Caps%2C207&sr=8-1

[@jayzbond007]

The Hunt For Red October...

[@munusamya118]

Can this be converted to rc

[@thethirdman225]

Where's the sauna and the "swimming pool" then? :D

[@hendrihambali9251]

where and how many that toy

[@skepticbear3259]

I'm curious. The question is: Why the US navy have no submarines with equivalent size of this Typhoon sub? 🤔 Anyways. Nice model! 👍

[@50Herosim]

потому что на тот момент времени у сша не было таких технологий а потом такие лодки потеряли актуальность из-за новых компактных ракет которым не нужны были большие шахты , и теперь главный ракетоносец это апл проекта борей

[@filipearthur5379]

8 torpedo tubes? really Revell? Typhoon as any other soviet submarine only has six!

[@routman28]

Right !!! ;-)

[@randycheow5311]

Tom Clancy the hunt for the red October

[@Train115]

Where online can I get that model?

[@scalemodelling76]

eBay is where I got mine it's on amazon too .

[@Maks_Morkovkin]

Bottom side must be brick red

[@cod_cape5483]

ah yes. War thunder music at the end

[@bamboosa]

I thought that the rudder was called a "rudder". Is it really called a fin?

[@the_victorious_1]

The rudder is the bit that turns; the fin is what sticks up without turning.

[@TotallyScaleModels]

nice video, I want to do a sub some day

[@allgood6760]

Awesome!... Alec Baldwin and Sean Connery would be proud of you... The Hunt For Red October.... well done comrade!

[@lemonm4fia342]

Was it an easy build?

[@scalemodelling76]

Not too bad from what I remember the propellers are way out of scale tho I should of sanded them down

[@comsubpac]

I wanted to see Montana...

[@konstantin9077]

I'm sorry, but this submarine not "Typhon". I also bought this model. After checking was very sorrow, because this model not authentic original submarine. Autor, good model performance!

[@masotan152]

I subscribe

[@pgs5335]

DAMNIT! i though there was no painting! 😠

[@hevendor958]

thats what model kits are for building, painting and decaling but one thing you have to paint the models before you add the decals

[@Boeing734]

Is it the Red October?

[@scalemodelling76]

I think it is yeah

[@Boeing734]

I just subscribed!

[@scalemodelling76]

Aidan Murphy cool I’m going to try and make more videos on a more regular basis !

[@Boeing734]

COOL!

[@apriswajaya]

"I present to you, the ballistic missile submarine Red October, me and my officers request asylum in the United States of America"

[@user-of5in3rp4s]

Читаю и не пойму , что за Тифоон или Тифун ? Потом понял , что Тайфун.

[@italojrs]

Wounderful. Do you want to build one for me? :) Hou much?

[@scalemodelling76]

I have no idea 😂

[@thegermanocelot4456]

The typhoon weighs as much as the uss Iowa

[@GJones462-2W1]

Those smooth, scar-free, immaculate hands. Wow. You've never done a hard day's work in your life, have you? BUT, nice work on the model, btw. The painting detail is fantastic.

[@jerrymccrae7202]

1 you didnt show how you did the white demarcation line. 2 you didnt show how you did the red BMs. 3 modern subs have SAILS not conning towers. That terminology is WW 2.

[@hoddi20]

its a typhoon btw but amazing work :)

[@scalemodelling76]

It's says Typhoon doesn't it ? Thank you !

[@nauticalpixel]

Typhoon is the nato name, Akula is what the class is called in Russia which I believe when translated means shark.

[@tommylakasi3022]

that sems a bit eatsy

[@Cheezsoup]

Not really my thing. Typical Revell kit to my mind. Weren't the props/blades horrible does no one make after market parts ? Would it not have been worth it to try and make your own photo-etch for them (couldn't be any worse than those kit items).

[@GrahamWalters]

The ties are not to minimise noise output, even though their technical name is acoustic tiles they are actually there to alter the radar and sonar signature of the boat. To be honest there is so much worng with as a working boat its laughable, all those little crevices on the upper hull would cause cavitation, which would mean it could be detected hundreds of miles away. The props are far too small to pus a boat that big through the water, and in real life you cannot have retractable planes leaving great holes like that in the outer hull right where your airtight ballast tanks should be !. That however is not your fault, the build, paint and decaling are good. PS I am a fully qualified submariner and served on S Boats in the RN

[@scalemodelling76]

Oh wow were you based in Plymouth ? And thanks for sharing the information I don't know anything about ships and submarines I just read a little bit on the box . From what people are saying this kit isn't very accurate ! Thanks for commenting !

[@GrahamWalters]

Remember that was a fictitious sub,and what it did in the film, tight turns etc are impossible, boats do not react that quickly !

[@darthgavel]

Graham Walters Silly Russians, building 6 of a fictional submarine class. Also retractable bow planes are definitely a thing, since at least WW2.

[@GrahamWalters]

Red October was based on the Typhoon class Submarine, the Revell model is so wrong it has to be based on the film version. On the model the fwd planes are too far forward and would conflict with the torpedo tubes. Also the model only shows six masts when the Typhoon had ten in all. the biggest mistake is that the Typhoons didn't have propellers of the type on the model, they actually had propulsors, which were had sharper angled blades, and more of them, this was all encased in a shroud to create a jet engine effect and an attempt to reduce propeller cavitation.

[@darthgavel]

The inaccuracies are I suspect more to do with the fact that this kit is a re-box of a model designed in 1989, and exact details and clear photographs (particularly of under-water details like the propulsion) would have been extremely hard to come by for western model companies and necessitated a bit of guesswork. Also means the first kit came out a year before the film.

[@ThatGuy-nv2wo]

Description is wrong btw

[@scalemodelling76]

How come ?

[@ThatGuy-nv2wo]

in what loopy land is this an akula?

[@scalemodelling76]

Oh sorry I thought it was .

[@MichaelWilson-hp2xg]

The Typhoon class was developed under Project 941 as the Russian Akula class (Акула), meaning shark. It is sometimes confused with other submarines, as Akula is the name NATO uses to designate the Russian Project 971 Shchuka-B (Щука-Б)-class attack submarines.

[@barrywonderdog]

I am doing my bechst Russchian-Schottish accschent to schelebrate thisch build. It is very scchimilar to my bechst Irishch-American Schottish accechent, but with a furry hat.

[@nolanrhamy1775]

D

[@Ally.Cat.252]

“2 thick coats”......good way to lose detail.

[@user-qu3zg3iz8p]

Моделька - гуано

[@gorsib]

и ты тоже

[@crotsvt4065]

gorsib чем она гамно ?

[@kaysee88]

You put in good work, but revell decals here are just bad, really ;(

[@johnthompson6550]

great work,,,,,, horrible weapons platform

[@xXturbo86Xx]

terrible model quality

[@rzerizrz]

why? :)

[@JohnDoe-hs5pz]

@@rzerizrz Not a bad build, with a bunch of inaccuracies in painting. But the similarity with the original model itself is terrible. The screw group is terrible. No impeller rings. Wrong trim wheels. Incorrect number of antennas and concomitants on the wheelhouse. And many other gross inaccuracies. Revell's screwed up in full.

[@IHateYoutubeHandles615]

@@JohnDoe-hs5pz The thing that bugs me is the engraved texture. It looks WAY too deep. But I can't think of a way to fix that. There's no way to just a partial fill of those grooves.

[@whatyoudo9773]

Sooo...there's nothing inside a submarine? It's just a big hollow can? What a crappy model I guess Revell is selling the ADD get it done quick as possible models now

[@danielkonrad1444]

Well, if you want it filled, you could scratch build the Interior.

[@whatyoudo9773]

I suppose, if you real set up and have the skill, but im saying it should be in the model. @@danielkonrad1444

[@MrFrank551]

this is fake

[@scalemodelling76]

A lot of people have said the accuracy of the kit is awful !

[@MrFrank551]

100% fake. ive seen this same picture on a couple different website.

[@scalemodelling76]

I'm not sure what's fake here either haha !

[@scalemodelling76]

Yeah it's an ok kit but I think it is the red October submarine and how is the USS Dallas model I was thinking of getting that to go with this !

[@MrFrank551]

the video also. it is fake. if you think this is real you have a very small brain.

[@sopwithpuppy]

The props at 18:15. Yuk. WTF? Absolutely and positively the worst propellers I have seen on any type (aircraft, ship, submarine) of vessel model in any scale. EVER. Completely awful. The model designer and quality controller should be SHOT. After they are forced to personally visit the domiciles of every person who purchased this model and apologised.

[@TheGuitarmanrh]

Completely boring kit as far as I can see! The only good use for it would be in a water effects diorama! Also if that thing was in the water within any vicinity of American ships or planes, having its missile doors open like that, it would be blown sky high...lol

[@PrintScreen.]

it's not a Torpedo sub so it wouldn't any close to USS ships/subs. pretty sure this thing stays under the ice circle for months where american ships can't get to anyway

[@TheGuitarmanrh]

@@PrintScreen. Yes your right, completely boring!!

[@TheGuitarmanrh]

@@PrintScreen. Oh yes and please do some research, the american subs used to shadow these russian boomers at 100 yards behind them and they even knew if someone on the russian sub went to the toilet.. And if the russian boomer even showed the slightest sign of opening its missile doors, the US sub went into full battle stations, ready to sink the boomer, that's why the russian subs never opened their nuclear missile ports, there was an instance when the kursk had a fire and had to open its missile ports to vent the smoke, the following American sub was within an inch of blowing it sky high, it was only the US captains experience and realisation of what was actually happening that stopped him! Unfortunately the Kursk sank because of the fire and was lost with all hands, a very very sad situation!!!

[@PrintScreen.]

@@TheGuitarmanrh just did "research" didn't find any such thing, you need to provide sources. i doubt american subs managed to cross enemy lines undetected by other attack subs and ASW patrols, let alone stay 100 yards behind a boomber. also SSBN Kursk did not have a fire, it was an explosion possibly caused from Torpedoes exploding

[@TheGuitarmanrh]

Yes sorry I apologize, you are right about the Kurdish! But please watch this documentary right till the end and you will see how close US subs could trail Soviet boomers!