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

[type7]

The fittings kits sure made it easy to convert plastic models to working subs. They also convinced me to buy sub-drivers after trying to make my own cylinders. People still don't want to pay the money for a working cylinder but most of the self made ones are crap.

[redboat219]

looks like Bob will not be producing the kits from the molds you shared...

Wonder where are the Krells are with their replicators?
Should be easy for you to 3D print own fittings.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Thank you Sir, yeah I was not in this game when your stellar fittings kits were available…. looks like Bob will not be producing the kits from the molds you shared. I totally appreciate what you share! Going back thru all the Dive Tribe videos has illustrated your selfless willingness to share what others shared with you and what you have learned.

Thanks for that, sir. Just trying to keep the torch lit, but it's fading fast.

I'm almost ready for Red Clay. How about you?

[biggsgolf]

Thank you Sir, yeah I was not in this game when your stellar fittings kits were available…. looks like Bob will not be producing the kits from the molds you shared. I totally appreciate what you share! Going back thru all the Dive Tribe videos has illustrated your selfless willingness to share what others shared with you and what you have learned.

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

Soft solder is more than adequate for that job. By the way I did not sleeve a round tube/rod into the square tube. I simply rounded the four edges of the square tube to fit a slightly undersize bore within the stern plane -- an interference fit that permits easy take-apart if the need should arise. And now...

Commence rant!

You idiots didn't lay cash down on fittings kits when they were available. Now it's all gone away. Oh, well. You snooze; you lose. As it turned out, all our fittings' kits were a bust. People, even today, think they can practice this facete of the r/c game on the cheap. Screw it, I'm the last of the breed; most of you don't have the skills to do this weird stuff -- can your Star Trek Replicators assemble, paint, weather, integrate the sub-systems, trim, outfit, and run your model for you (not yet, but eventually -- thank God I won't live long enough to see that sad state of affairs materialize! Remember the Krell!!!!).

Secure from rant!

And now, the pretty pictures:

[biggsgolf]

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David, in this shot did you construct the square to round shaft for the stern planes?, if so how? Just silver solder the round and square together? In the second shot any special kind of putty and 2 part epoxy? Can I use West Systems 205?

[gantu]

Ok some more drawings of the GHG Balkon Gerät.

[gantu]

You are welcome and a list of the GHG Balkon units.
Balkongerät
U234 X
U534 IXC40
U778 VIIC
U805 IXC40
U873 IXD2
U889 IXC40
U997 VIIC41
U1021 VIIC41
U1105 VIIC41
U1308 VIIC41
U4709 XXIII
U-1308 VIIC/41

[Albacore 569]

Thank you Gantu, I hoped my comments might have tickled the dragon's tail and you would elaborate or correct me. Excellent as always.

[gantu]

Some more pictures of the GHG Balkonsystem

[gantu]

Nice writing about GHG balcon

[gantu]

Here some nice info

[JHapprich]

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

[He Who Shall Not Be Named]

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

[Albacore 569]

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.











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