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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1005 on: 23 Dec , 2011, 23:51 »
Wow. Good luck!

We had a tiny one in Adelaide a few months ago, in the middle of the night, wounded like a freight train or giant dumpster banging, house rumbled, shelves vibrated, woke us right up! Pretty scary, it just goes and you can't do anything!

Enjoy Christmas! (and have a nice break form your intense and awesome drawing!)

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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1006 on: 24 Dec , 2011, 01:43 »
Simon, I wish you and your family a happy and safe christmas.  I do hope the quakes subside and let you enjoy the holidays in peace.

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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1007 on: 29 Dec , 2011, 00:09 »
The crew of U-1308 are truly happy today as they got two new 3.7 cm Flakzwilling M43U for their LM42U twin mounted flak guns. (Very few U-boats got the twin mounted 37 mm flak guns - U-boat know to have them U-1108 & U-889).

There was some talk within the crew about getting the LM43U the quadruple mounted flak guns :o (As a side note, the German did make a quadruple mounted 37 mm flak guns, but it do not come up to expectations, so they swap out the 37 mm for 20 mm). The LM43U quadruple mounted flak guns would have been able to put up 200 round per minute, firing a 0.73 kg round over 15.3 km. That would have help keep the planes away ;D  





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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1008 on: 29 Dec , 2011, 02:33 »
another outstanding dwg!
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« Reply #1009 on: 29 Dec , 2011, 18:44 »
That is an outstanding illustration! I work a lot with Illustrator, Painter and Photoshop, and I must say I nod greatly to your skills! Well done sir!
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« Reply #1010 on: 29 Dec , 2011, 19:15 »
That is an outstanding illustration! I work a lot with Illustrator, Painter and Photoshop, and I must say I nod greatly to your skills! Well done sir!
Christopher

Very kind words :)

Found this drawing very hard to do! It took me about 4 weeks for this drawing. Very few photographs of this twin mount and no plans :( Had to spend a lot of time looking at poor photographs to be able to add any level of detail.

Thinking about doing the Quadruple 2.0 cm Flak next ;D

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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1011 on: 10 Jan , 2012, 20:48 »
The crew of U-1308 are very happy today as they just acquire there shining new FuMO 61 Hohentwiel U radar. They are eager to try it out as soon as possible :)



While reworking the bridge of U-1308 today, I noticed the plans of the FuMO 61 Hohentwiel U do not match the war time photographs, so I rework the drawing to match the photographs. The drawing is now base on U-3037, U-3045 & U-3008.


Fig. 1. The FuMO 61 Hohentwiel U without the netting.


Fig. 2. The FuMO 61 Hohentwiel U within its radar aerial housing.

 Going back to this old post, with additional research I now think that my original drawing of the FuMO 61 Hohentwiel U was correct. I believe the second version of my drawing is the FuMO 65 Hohentwiel U1, nearly identical. So here my newest drawing of the FuMO 61 Hohentwiel U, base on the new research.






 

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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1012 on: 11 Jan , 2012, 00:38 »
Mmmmm....Weapon and Radar porn. :P   Very well done Simon, the drawings are beautiful.
 
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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1013 on: 12 Jan , 2012, 15:35 »
The FuMB Ant. 24 Fliege radar detection antenne.


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« Reply #1014 on: 12 Jan , 2012, 17:03 »
Very nice Drawing! Your control of gradients is outstanding sir!

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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1015 on: 13 Jan , 2012, 04:05 »
yes, I agree, gradients sell it and you know how to use them
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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1016 on: 13 Jan , 2012, 21:56 »

Fig. 1. FuMO-30 Radar Transmitter.



Fig. 2. FuMO-30 radar transmitter with the FuMB Ant. 5 Samoa antenna for the FuMB-4 radar detection.



Fig. 3. FuMO-61 Hohentwiel U Radar Transmitter.
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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1017 on: 13 Jan , 2012, 23:26 »
more nice work - how close are you to "finishing"?
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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1018 on: 13 Jan , 2012, 23:33 »
Likely he is working on a scale depiction of the Scapa Flow, and each vessel and building...  We know Gunther's boat at the time... But what clothing was each of the crew wearing? He is a busy man...  ;D

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Re: VIIC/41 - Schematices drawing
« Reply #1019 on: 14 Jan , 2012, 04:41 »
and what was in their pockets?! how many pieces of lint?
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