today's work

[JHapprich]

Yes indeed they look more appropriate, the tapered set is more of the 636' type

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Two sets of Fwd planes for the Kilo? Why?

Good catch. The 'tapered' set of bow planes were provided with the SWM kit. The bigger, squared off planes I scratch built off of plans and pictures -- A bit bigger and more scale like.






David

[JHapprich]

Two sets of Fwd planes for the Kilo? Why?

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[MFR1964]

Thanks Jake,

Still a size you can handle, my type VII is scale 1:35, giving me a lenght of about 2 meters, still a length you can handle on your own.
As for figures, i would go with the 1:35 crewmembers, search for tankcrews and aircrews.

Manfred.

[Davjacva]

David, scale 1/48 you say, that is a good scale, not too big and still big enough for the details
Type VII or type IX?

Manfred.

Manfred,
this Engels kit is about the second version of their kit, so late 80's. Since it's a IXC, it's 1/39.5 scale. I based this on the actual sub being about 253'. The model comes out at 77" long. The real sub in meters was...77 meters, so you see how they got the scaling. It also matches the 1/72 Type IXC perfectly in numbers and dimensions. The current Engels, which they say is a IXD2, is not correct, as it's still 77" long, and that version was about 30' longer in real life, yet the model is the same exact size. Who scales to 1/39.5? This makes getting figures problematic off the shelf.
Jake

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

David, scale 1/48 you say, that is a good scale, not too big and still big enough for the details
Type VII or type IX?

Manfred.

Type-9, but a later variant. I'll ask Jake at tonight's IPMS meeting. My best to you and yours.

David

[MFR1964]

David, scale 1/48 you say, that is a good scale, not too big and still big enough for the details
Type VII or type IX?

Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Those props David, which scale are they?, i presume they are made for the type VII or type IX

Manfred.

Hey, Manfred!

About 1/48 -- Jake has run the numbers on the kit he got second hand and there are annomolies in sub-assembly size which kind of makes this model a 'mixed-bag' concerning scale. Stay tuned. I'll let Jake jump in here on t.

David

[MFR1964]

Those props David, which scale are they?, i presume they are made for the type VII or type IX

Manfred.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Beautiful work on the screws. They feel very period correct.
Darrin

Which... is the objective of the scale-modeling game.

David

[ffr2608]

Beautiful work on the screws. They feel very period correct.
Darrin