Don't be fooled by the colour. The flash lightens it quite a bit. I've used Tamiya Acrylic medium sea grey which is nearest I can find to the Soviet medium grey used on this and two other Alpha boats.
Decals are very thin and pleasing but DO take a time to apply due to their fragility.
This depicts K-373 launched in 1976 and commissioned two years later. She spent her whole career with the Northern Fleet and bore the number 691 between 1987-90 before she was placed in reserve at Zapadnaya Litsa until 1993. Her reactor was removed in that year but the fate of the hull in not recorded.
Quite please so far.... Now the periscopes!!!