Hi Dougie! first of all thank you for the wishes and for the kind message regarding the virus spread you did with Wink. We're living difficult times, shutdown, isolation, but am confident: all is cyclic in nature, there's always calm after a storm. So let's wait and take all the precautions not to get infected, there's nothing more we can do actually.
Yes it's probably like that U48 changed a number of 8.8s. that was my guess also, your input is crucial to confirm it, so double thank you. I am depicting U48 in the period june-October 1940 (sixt to ninth war patrol, under Rosing or Bleichrodt). In that period the boat sported the lateral trunks on her conning tower.
I've been studying chronology of pics as far as possibile and i noticed three streaks of ?grease/rust on the port side of the gun breech (visible in picture 3, previous post, taken at sea while moving a torpedo from the underdeck stowage to the torpedo room). The same stained breech is also visible in the picture where the sailors show the attack computer at the end of Bleichrodt command (picture below). So that same gun with "the bar configuration" was
there during the period U48 was equipped with the trunks. http://cubeupload.com/im/SGm/U48Calculateur.jpgIn this period U48 might have sported the 8.8 version with the "bar" as in pic 3 of my previous post, so I think am gonna be adding it to the 400th scale gun.
A propos, any idea of what the bar is and what's its correct name? a stabilizer, a mere protected connector to the sight acting as a pedestal as well, since it bridges from the sight to the aiming device?.I'll keep updating this thread as i take some more pictures of my progress. The aiming block pieces are nearly completed, they are SMALL. A few examples:
http://cubeupload.com/im/SGm/elevation.jpghttp://cubeupload.com/im/SGm/IMG1829.jpghttp://cubeupload.com/im/SGm/IMG2076.jpgThen i'll be trying to bring it all together to buid a full gun tube. Let's see what i can get. Stay safe. Keep modelling and researching, all my bestSG