Hi SG,
Really good work, as always. Interesting you found a different style, I suppose we should expect differences between weapons and that styles would not be just on U-boats. The more we study, the more differences we find.
Cheers,
Dougie

Hi,
I finally managed to complete and superdetail the tiny elevation and traversing safety harnesses and to assemble them to the lower lateral arms and then to the gun mount. The insane feat took me 9 months with an average of 2 modelling sessions per week and plenty of intervals between the sessons. Unfortunately at this stage of the build each time a detail is added the risk of causing "the house of card" to crumble grows more and more. It has become increasingly difficult, time consuming and potentially disastrous.

Am therefore proud to show you the baroque-looking    result of my modelling efforts: 




Curiosities. As usual, the in-depth photographic study of the gun components brought me to notice oddities and different styles: first of all the location of the adjusting handles. Elevation harnesses arms handles: starboard one located forward (unnamed arrow ), port one pointing aft (b). Lower arms adjusting handles: aft side of each main arm (e) and top of each transverse section (f). The traversing harnesses arms handles were located on the port side of each arm (c, d). "lambda" joints squared eyelets: early (right/top and right/center pics) eyelets sat higher than their late counterparts (top row, central picture). The upper arms levers (g) were an early feature. They had a very important purpose as they were the triggers to fire the gun.They branched with a 60-degree angle from the main axis of the upper arm. The starboard lever pointed aft while the port one pointed forward. I identified a different, apparently late variant made of a crank (h) pointing forward and a lateral L-shaped lever extending aft (i) which was probably the late version of the trigger lever. This variant equipped famous boats such as U 96, U 552, U 73 and U 203. U 96 and U 552 modellers you've been warned!
 





The superdetailed elevation harnesses waiting to be added to the mount and the usual comparison picture dedicated to Falo 




Ah, the blog's updated too: https://3xblackcats.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/8-8-cm45-3-46-sk-c35-gun/ remember to scroll down to the bottom to see the latest progress if you decide to visit.

Cheers,
SG

Hi Ron,

Thanks for the update. I like the maintenance figures and barrels. 1/35th is a good scale for a diorama, I enjoyed adding little details to the Accurate Armour dockside such as oil barrels, seagulls, a rat, rubble, welding equipment etc.

Have you had your R/C boat running on the pond or has the first launch still to come?

Also are you going to make the Skipjack an R/C model? It looks big enough to house a dive module despite being a plastic kit.

Cheers,

Dougie

Hi Falo,
The drydock and photo etch looks fantastic but the scale of 700th would be hard to work with.
SG - hope you are on the mend from Covid and that your Werke can open again.
Cheers,
Dougie

Hi SG, hi Dougie,


@SG: Is this your next project?   


https://www.kitreviewsonline.de/u-48-dkm-u-boat-type-vii-b-with-dock-in-1700-von-flyhawk-fh1101/


Regards
falo