1/72 Revell Of Germany Type-9 .... It Starts!

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  • OldNoob
    Ensign
    • Jun 2011
    • 3

    You're building my dream ;) keep it up!

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    • biggsgolf
      Captain
      • Jan 2020
      • 720

      David, what size SD did you use in this conversion?

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      • He Who Shall Not Be Named
        Moderator
        • Aug 2008
        • 12256

        Originally posted by biggsgolf
        David, what size SD did you use in this conversion?
        2.5", two-motor.

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        David
        Who is John Galt?

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        • biggsgolf
          Captain
          • Jan 2020
          • 720

          Thanks David! Love the presentation

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          • biggsgolf
            Captain
            • Jan 2020
            • 720

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ID:	156295 David, am I correct that the Props should rotate in opposite directions? In the photo I see one motor using a pinion to rotate two Spur gears which in my mind would rotate the props in same direction?

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            • He Who Shall Not Be Named
              Moderator
              • Aug 2008
              • 12256

              Originally posted by biggsgolf
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ID:	156295 David, am I correct that the Props should rotate in opposite directions? In the photo I see one motor using a pinion to rotate two Spur gears which in my mind would rotate the props in same direction?

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              Nope.

              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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              David

              Who is John Galt?

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              • biggsgolf
                Captain
                • Jan 2020
                • 720

                Thanks David, I get it!

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                • biggsgolf
                  Captain
                  • Jan 2020
                  • 720

                  David what size props did you use?

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                  • He Who Shall Not Be Named
                    Moderator
                    • Aug 2008
                    • 12256

                    Originally posted by biggsgolf
                    David what size props did you use?
                    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.
























                    David
                    Who is John Galt?

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                    • Das Boot
                      Rear Admiral
                      • Dec 2019
                      • 1149

                      I can’t keep up with your many projects.
                      Of the 40,000 men who served on German submarines, 30,000 never returned.”

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                      • redboat219
                        Admiral
                        • Dec 2008
                        • 2735

                        Would be possible to get the following Type IX fittings; Resin fore and aft diveplanes, rudder mechanism, drive shafts, bearing mounts, dogbones, props and magnetic hold downs? Click image for larger version

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                        Make it simple, make strong, make it work!

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                        • He Who Shall Not Be Named
                          Moderator
                          • Aug 2008
                          • 12256

                          Originally posted by redboat219
                          Would be possible to get the following Type IX fittings; Resin fore and aft diveplanes, rudder mechanism, drive shafts, bearing mounts, dogbones, props and magnetic hold downs? Click image for larger version

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                          Nope. NIS.
                          Who is John Galt?

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                          • Albacore 569
                            Commander
                            • Sep 2020
                            • 321

                            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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                            U-505 in 1954 at Chicago. Answer 10 year late

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                            • He Who Shall Not Be Named
                              Moderator
                              • Aug 2008
                              • 12256

                              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.

                              David
                              Who is John Galt?

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                              • JHapprich
                                Captain
                                • Oct 2017
                                • 715

                                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.

                                My opinion, happily history went differently

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