by Kieran Griffith
1/350 K-3 November Class SSN (Zvezda)
Zvezda makes a very good 1/350 scale model of this early nuclear attack submarine back in the 1950s when the USSR had a good chance of winning the Cold War. I was able to assemble it completely in one day as the parts virtually fell in to place and there was no shortage of painting references on the internet. The base is made of a brush head with match sticks.
K-3 was a project 627 ("kit," meaning "whale"; NATO reporting name "November") submarine of the Soviet Navy's Northern Fleet, the first nuclear submarine of the Soviet Union. She was built in Molotovsk, launched on 9 August 1957, commissioned in July 1958, and homeported at Zapadnaya Litsa on the Kola Peninsula. The K-3 became the first Ship of the Russian fleet, which reached the North Pole and the first ship in the world, which surfaced at the North Pole.
