I am highly motivated to complete U-673 for our upcoming contest CAPCON 2011 on September, 24, 2011. The hull was already completed, but I hadn't started on the conning tower (well, except for making the REALLY cool Flak-37 cannon from photoetch). So starting about 1 week ago, I have been doing marathon modelling sessions, going late into the nights.
The CT is going to be REALLY fun to do for U-673, with the forward AA platform, railings, ammo stowage cabinets, etc etc etc etc.
I only have a few scant & fuzzy pictures to work from. Ahh... the challenge. Since U-673 is a converted VIIC, and I was using a VIIC/41 kit as the basis, I had to do a fair bit of grafting & surgery to make it look proper.
Here are the results of my grafting together the CT using VIIC/41 and some VIIC parts: