Wasn't totally happy with the towed array pod, and so I tried to refine the shape, but the plastic is not good enough to hold the level of detail I wanted, so I inserted a 1.5 millimeter alloy tube into the end and faired filler into it, this will need sanding again to be nice and smooth but you can see it at the 'pre-sanding' stage here:
you can also see that the thinning of the fins trailing edges has been started, they need squaring off, but they are now very much more like the correct scale thickness of the ones compared to the real thing.
Still on topic, I'd just like to say a quick thank you to Wayne Frey, author of the book 'Russian Submarines, Guardians of the Motherland' - following me asking some questions about some detailing on the 'akula' in the subpirates forum, Wayne very kindly contacted me and offered to answer a few questions I had, and he has been very helpful indeed. A real nice guy, look out for his subcommittee review of the 2008 submarine Almanac by the way.
Chock