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Offline rabapla

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Re: U-711
« Reply #15 on: 17 Nov , 2008, 02:50 »
Hi,

in the top photo You see the entrance: it's where the cloth is hanging!
in the middle picture You just see the edge of the door case at the extrem right.
I'll have to measure it at home............
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Re: U-711
« Reply #16 on: 17 Nov , 2008, 02:56 »
Quote from: rabapla on 17 Nov , 2008, 02:50
I'll have to measure it at home............

"Measure it at home"? Do you LIVE on a VII? Cool! ;D
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Re: U-711
« Reply #17 on: 17 Nov , 2008, 03:05 »
 ;D
measure it on my VII C model!

Took a lot of eyeballing, cross-measuring and such.
I think my conversion measures up exactly on the revell model; which doesn't mean it would scale up exactly with the real thing.....

still have interpretation- problems with the domed cover in front of the "cockpit" in relation to the periskope (see photos in Gallery of U 377)

 
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Re: U-711
« Reply #18 on: 17 Nov , 2008, 15:58 »
Hi Ralf,

Thanks for the clarification on the doors...I see now.

Yes, I do see what you mean about the domed cover. It almost looks like it occupied the same area as the sky periscope.

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Re: U-711
« Reply #19 on: 19 Nov , 2008, 03:25 »
One can exactly detect where the domed cover hits the side wall, but........
when You draw a straight, rectangular (to the long axis of the boat) to the other side:
the edge of the domed cover crosses right over the MIDDLE of the sky periskope!

maybe the trailing edge (forgive that aeroplane-term) was curved to the anterior as well?
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Re: U-711
« Reply #20 on: 19 Nov , 2008, 11:32 »
Hi Ralf,

"Curved to the anterior" - your English is better than mine!

Yeah, the cover might well have been curved in that way. Or the sky persicope could have been slightly farther back? Or a combination of both?

Intersting point this.

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Re: U-711
« Reply #21 on: 20 Nov , 2008, 06:19 »
Quote from: dougie47 on 19 Nov , 2008, 11:32
"Curved to the anterior" - your English is better than mine!

Well, radiologist talk: describe it when you can't name it  ;D

I'm very sure they won't change the position of the periscope for a simple cover!

still not sure about that cover, can't make it out in the photos...................
Do You have any similar stuff?
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Re: U-711
« Reply #22 on: 21 Nov , 2008, 11:20 »
Hi Ralf,

Sorry, I was didn't make myself clear. My fault. I didn't mean that they might have moved the periscope back.  :) I was asking if the position of the sky periscope on the Revell kit was fractionally too far forward on the kit?

I'm looking at photos now and I think the periscope IS in the correct position in the kit. What do you think?

I've only seen one photo of the domed cover and that is on U 377. This photo is in one of Showell's books.

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Re: U-711
« Reply #23 on: 21 Nov , 2008, 13:44 »
all of my shots (except one, which is from deutsches u-boot archiv) are out of showells book (as in the gallery here)

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Re: U-711
« Reply #24 on: 10 Dec , 2008, 13:56 »
Hi Ralf,

There is a photo here which shows a cover -

http://www.german-uboats.com/Uboat%20Photos/U94-2.jpg

It might not be quite as curved as U 377. But it does have a semi-circle cut out at the rear for the periscope.

The boat isn't U 94 but I'm not sure which boat it is.

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Re: U-711
« Reply #25 on: 03 Jan , 2009, 10:56 »
Happy new year!

In the last time, i made some progress concerning the oil-canning.

Not that my U-711 is ready now to get its colourcoat... but i wonder what colour the boat has on the pictures above. It seems to be a very light colour... silver grey, squrirel-grey or even "schnellbootwei
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Re: U-711
« Reply #26 on: 03 Jan , 2009, 11:27 »
Hi Jan,

For everybody, U 711 is the one with the dark stripe -


U 362 is in the foreground, U 711 is just to the right of U 362 -


Lower hull would be Schiffsbodenfarbe (WL) III Grau as you say.

Hellgrau 50 did sometimes appear almost white in direct sunlight. So the upper hull may have been Hellgrau 50. Schnellbootwei
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Re: U-711
« Reply #27 on: 04 Jan , 2009, 08:41 »
Thanks Dougie!

I think black-blue might be a nice colour for the stripes...

Ok,  here are some pics of my boat. There is still a lot to do...
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Re: U-711
« Reply #28 on: 04 Jan , 2009, 09:34 »
Quote from: dougie47 on 10 Dec , 2008, 13:56
Hi Ralf,

There is a photo here which shows a cover -

http://www.german-uboats.com/Uboat%20Photos/U94-2.jpg

It might not be quite as curved as U 377. But it does have a semi-circle cut out at the rear for the periscope.

The boat isn't U 94 but I'm not sure which boat it is.

Cheers,

Dougie

Perfect, curved or not: it clearly shows the position of the cover in relation to the rivet lines!
thanks a lot!
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Re: U-711
« Reply #29 on: 04 Jan , 2009, 10:42 »
Your U-711 building is coming along nicely!  I really like the "oil canning"!  Keep up the great work!

Greif
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