First little accents of paint: most of this model will be painted with Tamiya acrylic, but for the few silver bits I'm using Testors enamel: smells bad, induces headaches and is just unpleasant to use as any metallic flake paint seems to always be. Anyway, the instructions say to paint these silver with red tips but photos of the real sub show a blue metallic flake on the rear of each torpedo. So that's what I'm going to do.

Two generator control units.

Using silver enamel Testors paint from a jar means cleaning up with mineral spirits. Since the holidays are over it's easy to wash some spare caviar jars and fill with thinner.

All the mesh floors are getting doused in silver as well.

Teeny-tiny parts, but I was able to paint the little grate along with the middle panel. Photos of the actual sub show these units as having a red front, another with a green front and a third with a flat white front.

Torpedo tubes and bulk head are going to be brilliant flat white. The torpedo room looks like a room from the Space Shuttle.

Bright white spaceship-looking torpedo room. Grey and white are pretty boring for plastic models, but this **is** a submarine after all.

The rest of the bulkheads get a dusting on white that does two things: makes them grey and really makes the molded pipes very highlighted and 3-d looking. These bulkheads are shades of mint grey-green, grays and a few are wood paneled.