This page is dedicated to the construction and buildup of my 1:96 scale Thor Design Seawolf Submarine kit.

The kit was purchased from Atomic Subs as a "builder's special". It had already been started by a rather inexperienced modeller, and will take a bit of work to get up to snuff.

Displacement: 9,150 tons submerged
Length: 350 feet
Beam: 40 feet
Draft: 35 feet
Speed: 25+ knots submerged
Propulsion: S6W reactor
Depth: Greater than 800 feet
Complement: 133
Armament: eight 30-inch torpedo tubes, 50 torpedoes and missiles, or 100 mines

The Seawolf-class attack submarines (SSN) are quieter than the previous Los Angeles class, faster, have more torpedo tubes, and carry more weapons. They use the more advanced AN/BSY-2 combat system, which includes a new larger spherical sonar array, a wide aperture array (WAA), and a new towed-array sonar. Originally intended as a fleet of 29 submarines to be built over a ten-year period, the end of the Cold War and budget constraints dropped that number to three and led to the design of the Virginia class submarine.

May 1st, 2006: I picked this hull up on the weekend from Lyle Jansma with Atomic Subs. Lyle is the dealer for ThorDesign's exquisite hull kits. This particular one was actually started by another modeller and then returned on Lyle's good grace. I bought it as a "builder's special", as the model will require a bit of reworking to get thing to line up nicely. It's always a bit of a pain redoing what has already been done rather than doing it from scratch yourself, but the price was right, and I love the Seawolf... deal done!