U-995 Mission accomplished

[FoxbaT]

Thanks Pepper,

I don`t know if the security railings were present on the 995, its difficult to find info on this subject.
Does someone knows more about this?




Karel

[NZSnowman]

On 16 September 1943 it commission date, it did not have one.

I have a brief look at this and you may be right. I could not find any pictures with the security railings with a date. When I get time I will look into this with more detail. Dougie, may have the answer, at hand.

Nevertheless, this open up another quection. Did the late war Type VII/41 had this security railings? There would be no need for them on the very late war u-boat. I will also check this out.

Good spotting, Karel!

[FoxbaT]

Thanks in advance Simon 



Karel

[NZSnowman]

Nevertheless, this open up another quection. Did the late war Type VII/41 had this security railings? There would be no need for them on the very late war u-boat. I will also check this out.

The answer to this question is YES. I fought several pictures of U-1304 and U-1305 with the security railings. U-1304 and U-1305 (including U-1308) were all of the same batch and are very late Type VIIC/41.

[dougie47]

Hello guys,

Very nice work on those railings, Karel!

U 993 and U 994 were both launched with Turm II towers. I would think U 995 would also have been launched with a Turm II. At some point in 1943 a Turm IV (without security railings) would have been fitted to U 995.

By the end of the war, most (and I'm thinking probably all) VIICs and VIIC/41s had the security railings. There would be one set of security railings behind the top platform, and another set of security railings behind the rear platform. The book "Vom original zum Modell: VIIC" shows a few sets of railings and Turms. I think the implementation of the security railings would be around April or May 1944 or so.

One thing to consider when studying Turm IIs and Turm IVs is the height of the top (forward) platform. The top platform on the Turm IV was much higher than the top platform on the Turm IIs. You can use this height difference to differentiate between a Turm II and Turm IV.

Cheers,

Dougie

[FoxbaT]

Many thanks guys for the info.
For now i leave it as it is, if i find evidence that the 995 had the railings in 44/45, i will add them later.





Karel

[FoxbaT]

The steel plate in front of the CT is done, the trussets and the plate from the Revell part were too thick, i thinned the trussets with a small file and scalpel, the steel plate was thinned later while it was glued on the CT.


The revell part.






Here the trussets are thinned (only the visible part)





I also discovered that the steel plate was riveted on the trussets, fortunately i had some rivets left in my Archer rivet kit.
Another thing i added were the PE triangular brackets for the antenna wire.











Karel

[rabapla]

beautiful work!

I admit I'm stupid, but I still don't understand how that archer stuff works :
is it like water decals? cutting pretty close to the rivets and then slide it onto the modell, hoping the carrier film disappears after painting. or like a dry transfer: just rubbing the rivets onto the model?

sincerely

ralf

[FoxbaT]

Thanks Ralf,

indeed they are water transfers, the carrier film is very thin so i hope it wil disappear after painting, otherwise i have to give the carrier film a slight carefull sanding.



Karel

[Pepper-mint]

Nevertheless, this open up another quection. Did the late war Type VII/41 had this security railings? There would be no need for them on the very late war u-boat. I will also check this out.

The answer to this question is YES. I fought several pictures of U-1304 and U-1305 with the security railings. U-1304 and U-1305 (including U-1308) were all of the same batch and are very late Type VIIC/41.

Great news ! 

Karel, you know : i'm not gonna repeat myself. keep glueing. 

[Rokket]

very nice ....I did the same, and it makes a difference!

[FoxbaT]

In the Revell kit there are no `pfillenwerfers`present, so i made these today with the help of some detailed pics from the real U995.


Here the exact position is marked.






And the openings ready, i also added rivets.
On the inside i glued two small round caps from the scratchbox to prevent light shining through the holes.






Karel

[Rokket]

Nice. what are pillferwillies?

[bracco_n]

Pillenwerfer was a device designed to release a specially designed canister which had a substance inside that on contact with sea water released a huge quantity of bubbles that hung in the water at about 30 m depth. this mass of bubbles gave a sonar image pretty similar to that caused by a submerged Uboat, so while the destroyer blasted the bubbles the uboat crept out of danger.

[Rokket]

ahhh...noisemakers! Thanks