The Ship Model Forum

The Ship Modelers Source
It is currently Fri Mar 29, 2024 4:02 am

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 54 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:56 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:01 pm
Posts: 271
Location: Xiaoshan, China, home of the "oldest" boat
Does anyone know of a good source for detailed German WWI u-boat plans, specifically for the U-9 & U-31 class? Have already checked with uboat.net
& several other web-based sites without any luck.

Thanks.

_________________
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:23 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:02 am
Posts: 10448
Location: EG48
Did you ask over at the Subcommittee?

_________________
Tracy White -Researcher@Large

"Let the evidence guide the research. Do not have a preconceived agenda which will only distort the result."
-Barbara Tuchman


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject: WW1 Plans Needed
PostPosted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:54 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:01 pm
Posts: 271
Location: Xiaoshan, China, home of the "oldest" boat
I appreciate your replies. Have tried SC & all other sub-related forums including an upcoming WW1 u-boat sim, Imperial U-Flotilla 1914-1918.

Have plenty of photos - just looking for some plans with enough detail to build from.

_________________
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:39 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:35 am
Posts: 3
Location: Zagreb, Croatia
:wave_1: hi everyone!

i hope i didn't posted this in wrong topic...
i'm building the revell u-boat vii-c, so far so good, but i'm little confused - which paint should i use to paint my u-boat (U-69, year 1942) ? Revell instructions looks really suspicious, and on the net i have foun many variations from blue-grey to white...so i don't know wich colors did genmans rally used?

underwater part -dark grey???
upper part and turret - neutral grey???
deck - ganite gray???

help please


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
 Post subject:
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:17 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Nov 13, 2006 9:54 am
Posts: 25
Hello Herr Flick !

I found the following sites to be invaluable for U-boat painting:

http://uboatcolours.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/
http://uboatcolours2.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/

WEM makes very good Colourcoats enamel paints for all the Kriegsmarine colours:
http://www.whiteensignmodels.com/acatal ... rs_50.html

As for individual paint schemes for the boats... depends on the boat, and the particular time in it's service you are trying to replicate.

HTH


Herr Flick wrote:
:wave_1: hi everyone!

i hope i didn't posted this in wrong topic...
i'm building the revell u-boat vii-c, so far so good, but i'm little confused - which paint should i use to paint my u-boat (U-69, year 1942) ? Revell instructions looks really suspicious, and on the net i have foun many variations from blue-grey to white...so i don't know wich colors did genmans rally used?

underwater part -dark grey???
upper part and turret - neutral grey???
deck - ganite gray???

help please

_________________
Glenn Cauley
Ottawa, Canada


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Tue May 27, 2008 6:53 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:01 pm
Posts: 271
Location: Xiaoshan, China, home of the "oldest" boat
Lets get this back on topic for those of us who like the older subs.

Matt Thor & Steve Neill are soon to release a new UB-1 kit with perhaps others to follow including a USN S-class. It would be nice to see someone such as Revell would come to market with a mass-produced kit of one of the early subs that revolutionized undersea warfare.

Chuck

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

_________________
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 9:36 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:02 pm
Posts: 170
Location: hangzhou china
hello miller,great work is'nt it! :thumbs_up_1: oh,There are the mittel-u,the UE class and the famous DEUTSCHLAND .they are the most handsome kits in my thought.it's quite puzzling to me that how could they get reliable sources for scratchbuilding


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri May 30, 2008 10:19 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:02 pm
Posts: 170
Location: hangzhou china
i suppose that the very fascination of ww1 u-boote may be its diversity and weirdness of appearance


Attachments:
File comment: the mighty u-kreuzer
u_139_sommincroc.jpg
u_139_sommincroc.jpg [ 42.02 KiB | Viewed 23580 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 11:13 am 
Offline

Joined: Tue Aug 26, 2008 10:24 am
Posts: 1
Location: Danville Va.
Gentlemen

If you want to research U-Boats try the following books I have found them very usefull when I am building my RC U-boats

TitleTHE U-Boat
Author BY Eberhard Rossle
ISBN Number 0-304-36120-8


Title Ubootwaffe, Marine-Kleinkampfverbunde 1939-1945
Author Waldemar Trojca
ISBN Number 83-919215-8-1

I hope these books help you in later search's


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:39 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:01 pm
Posts: 271
Location: Xiaoshan, China, home of the "oldest" boat
Thanks Myles, but I already have both of the books.

_________________
"China is a sleeping giant. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." ~ Napoleon Bonaparte


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 11:56 am 
Offline

Joined: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:22 pm
Posts: 2
Location: Sankt Petersburg, Russia
Model UB I 1/350


Attachments:
UB I по деталям.jpg
UB I по деталям.jpg [ 102.58 KiB | Viewed 23486 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 1:06 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Nov 09, 2008 4:22 pm
Posts: 2
Location: Sankt Petersburg, Russia
Model completed -


Attachments:
UB I 1-350 2.jpg
UB I 1-350 2.jpg [ 111.23 KiB | Viewed 23481 times ]
Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 20, 2009 7:55 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:38 pm
Posts: 143
Location: USA-east coast
Hello---I have the Mirage 1/400 U-176 type IXC and need to find photo etch for it. The only things that come up are Tom's and White Ensign. Where can I purchase Mirage PE? Thanks---John


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2009 7:57 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:38 pm
Posts: 143
Location: USA-east coast
Is anybody out there?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sat May 23, 2009 10:05 am 
Offline

Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2005 11:02 am
Posts: 10448
Location: EG48
You might try your local hobby shop to see if they can special order it, otherwise I haven't found it anywhere in the US. Distributors such as Squadron, Stevens International, and Sentai don't seem to have any Mirage stock any more.

This was the best I could do:
http://www.modelimex.com/detail/photo-e ... ixc-pe-set

_________________
Tracy White -Researcher@Large

"Let the evidence guide the research. Do not have a preconceived agenda which will only distort the result."
-Barbara Tuchman


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Wed May 27, 2009 4:24 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:38 pm
Posts: 143
Location: USA-east coast
Thanks---they want 7.5 Euros for the PE set and 18 Eros for shipping, total 25.5 Euros or 35 dollars? Why so much to ship?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:11 am 
john53 wrote:
Thanks---they want 7.5 Euros for the PE set and 18 Eros for shipping, total 25.5 Euros or 35 dollars? Why so much to ship?


Hello, the maximum shipping is 18 EUR - WORLD (2kg). Shipping of one PE set from Mirage Hobby will be probably 3 or 5 EUR (for 100g or 250g package). Table with shipping rates can be found here: http://www.modelimex.com/article/postage

There is no reason to think that we would charge you 18 EUR for shipping of one small PE set :-)

Sincerely

Petr
MODELIMEX


Top
  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:36 pm 
Offline

Joined: Sun Feb 13, 2011 3:11 pm
Posts: 273
This may not be the best place for this question, but I’ll give it a shot anyway. On many photos I’ve seen of German U-Boats (mostly B&W), there often is seen blotches of a light (grey?) color all over the conning tower in random fashion. Are these salt stains, or worn/chipped paint reveling primer beneath, or what?

Thanks,
Kevin

_________________
Kevin

30 years ago I started off with nothing, and I've still got most of it!


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:32 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:25 pm
Posts: 1
I see no reference to a U30 anywhere. Numbers seem to jump to U31 and the first reference to a ship called U30 isn't until WWII. Does anyone know why?

Cdog


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
PostPosted: Fri Oct 07, 2011 8:51 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Jan 10, 2005 6:00 pm
Posts: 12138
Location: Ottawa, Canada
But there was! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-30_(Germany)

_________________
De quoi s'agit-il?


Top
 Profile  
Reply with quote  
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 54 posts ]  Go to page 1, 2, 3  Next

All times are UTC - 6 hours [ DST ]


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 13 guests


You can post new topics in this forum
You can reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot post attachments in this forum

Jump to:  
Powered by phpBB® Forum Software © phpBB Group