Lots and lots and lots of bits to keep you on track - hohohho

Warning - DON'T work on your model late at night when you are tired and not at your best, especially when you have just got a new bottle of Vallego hull red out and not coloured the top.  You wake up and find that you have picked up the bottle of mahogany brown instead - or did the evil hob goblins sneek into my room and re-paint the ships hull diuring the night 

Upper and lower parts of the hull cleaned up and primed also the base now primed and coated with gloss black.

Thanks for another great day - lots of chat and I even got some model making done as well
The second and third photo show somebody being "last in and first out"- we will not say which fashion icon it was - hohohhoho

Yes I have been up in the loft and retrieved this from many years ago - its the Trumpeter 1/700 scale cruiser and also the White Ensign (that shows how long its been in the loft) set of etch brass for it. The base has been made and will be cleaned up at playday and the seam down the center of the hull removed - sorry Haddock but she will be displayed on plinths not in the water.
She was laid down in 1974 and commissioned in 1980.  Most people call her a "Battlecruiser" because of her size but he Russians just called her a "Heavy nuclear powered guided missile cruiser" 
Now will the fingers and eyes be still able to work on a 1/700 scale or will it end up in the box of shame

We will find out on Sunday - I will bring my KGB interogation kit with me - hohohhoho

Just think of the FUN you have had fettling this one down to shape - hohohhoho