Episode IV: Stop Using Sex as a Weapon.
The other day my wife walked past me as I was working on this sub model and said 'How's your phallic symbol coming along?' Now, you have to admit she has a point, quite apart from the shape of nuclear subs, there's the fact that they are indeed long, hard and full of seamen. So it was quite funny when I pointed out something to her tonight whilst again working on the sub model. I opened Wayne Frey's book on page 40, which shows two pictures of the rear deck communication buoy housing doors and fairleads. 'Is it me, or do those look like a woman's sexual organs?' I asked her (in slightly more crude language I admit). 'Well, I thought you were more of a breast man myself' replies my wife, 'But no, it's not you, it does indeed look like that'
Anyway, in reshaping the model a lot and losing the raised detail, the molded detail for this bit was lost, which was not a big deal as it wasn't too accurate anyway, so here it is in the process of being remodeled:
I know what you're thinking, that looks like a...
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