Calling all Kriegsmarine Small Submarine/Submersible fans

[Tracy White]

At this time intended for the Marder up to the Type XXIII, including:
Neger/Marder
Molch
Biber
Necht
Seehund
Schwertwal
Type XXIII

There's actually a large variety of kits in various scales.

Neger
1/35th - Micro Mir

Marder
1/35th - Micro Mir

Hai
1/35th - Micro Mir

Molch
1/35th - Hobbyboss, Micro Mir, Verlinden
1/72nd - Pavla

Biber
1/35th - Italeri, Verlinden
1/72nd - Special Hobby
1/350 - One is available as part of a set with a Type VIIc u-boat from AFV Club

Type XXVIIA Hecht
1/35th - Verlinden
1/72nd - Choroszy-Models

Type XXVIIB5 Seehund
1/35th - Verlinden
1/72nd - ICM

Schwertwal
1/35th - Micro Mir

Type XXII U-boat:
1/35th - Bronco,
1/72nd - Alanger
1/144th - ICM

Verlinden produced a waterline Seehund & Neger kit set in 1/35th

[Tracy White]

This thread came about as I have the new HobbyBoss Molch and there's absolutely no color call outs for the interior and I can't find any really good photos online - the best I've found is this Youtube clip around the 30-second mark which seems to suggest a light gray such as RLM 65 Hellblau, RLM 76 Lichtblau
however, since the wires and tubes are also the same color I suspect it was repainted at some point and I don't know if that is accurate.

There is a HTML copy of the 1944 Kriegsmarine regulation for submarine paint online and if you translate it it appears that the interiors were mainly ivory or white with some RAL 7000 or 7001 in the mix.

[thebunkerparodie]

How many hecht were produced? I got some source who said that only 3 were constructed and other 53.

[Tracy White]

UBoat.net states 53 were commissioned. I tend to trust them as a pretty authoritative source. It might be worth asking them to verify their information. I tried looking for the hull number on the unit on display at the "Milit�rhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr" in Dresden but can't seem to find any ID. If that could be determined it could help as well.

[thebunkerparodie]

thanks,is it a real project or not? https://www.scalemates.com/kits/mikromi ... se--155212

[thebunkerparodie]

found something on the hai https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=183385

[wefalck]

The Dutch company ARTITEC has also two German WWII submarine models in 1:87 scale:

https://www.artitecshop.com/en/seehund- ... -hull.html

https://www.artitecshop.com/en/german-t ... rline.html