Calling all WWI German U-boat fans

[herrmill]

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.

[Tracy White]

Did you ask over at the Subcommittee?

[herrmill]

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.

[Herr Flick]

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

[GlennCauley]

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

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

[herrmill]

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

[sirmaumau]

hello miller,great work is'nt it! 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

[sirmaumau]

i suppose that the very fascination of ww1 u-boote may be its diversity and weirdness of appearance

[myles yancey]

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

[herrmill]

Thanks Myles, but I already have both of the books.

[Eduard UB]

Model UB I 1/350

[Eduard UB]

Model completed -

[john53]

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

[john53]

Is anybody out there?

[Tracy White]

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

[john53]

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?

[Petr Kovar, MODELIMEX]

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

[BB61]

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

[C4azydog]

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

[Timmy C]

But there was! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_U-30_(Germany)