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1/72 Revell Of Germany Type-9 .... It Starts!
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The two output spure gears mesh and have to rotate counter to the other. Only one of them engages the pinion gear. Example follows:
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Same diameter as the kit wheels. I extensively re-worked the kit propellers to eleminate the injection process artifacts that spoiled the taper of the edges and the blade-to-hub fillets on one face of the blades. I used the corrected wheels to make a rubber tool from which I produced white-metal castings that became an element of our fittings kit.
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BTW, the sonar dome is a Balkon Great Sonar array. They were fitted as standard equipment on Type XXI, s and on the Type XVIIB's, and some Type VII's and Type IX's too as here. Looking at the date this thread started (12 years ago?), this is probably old been there don't that. but I have fun researching it anyway so there...lol.
Reading about the U-505's German operational history, **** what a unlucky boat! Even the skipper committed suicide int he control room shooting himself with his pistol in the head on duty. Seems as a war relic U-505's good fortune only changed only after being captured. The first warship captured at sea by the USN since the war of 1812. The British however captured U-boats several already beforehand mentioning then so I don't repeat another U-571 movie boner. Thats another story, the Hollywood versions Americans won the war single handed right? When Operation Burma was released in 1944 with Errol Flynn, was the same thing. No mention of Gerneral Slim, PM Churchill was so ****ed he had the film banned in the UK.
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We, the United States of America, really -- post war -- **** all over the Britt's. Without those tough SOB's (and a handful of ****ed off Hungarian's) we would not have gotten the 'bomb' as soon as we did. Without them we could not have stagged so many productive day bombings against the Axis. Without them D-day would have been an even more arduous task. Without the demonstrated, unflinching stoutness of the Britt's the world would have wallowed under that war to this day.
Don't let Hollywood write the histories!!! The Britt's and the Russian's did the Lion's share of the work required to put down the Axis.
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Not entirely true. U.S. military aid both for GB and the USSR played a major role in keeping up the european war effort against the Axis in early war AND U.S. war economy was one of the keys to shorten the war against Germany. Sure, Shukov could have dictated peace in Berlin without D-Day, BUT little boy would have hitten central Germany by then. Another most important part was the constant day bombing. I doubt the night raids of the RAF alone would have had the same effect.
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