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Offline bill_c

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What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« on: 18 Apr , 2015, 14:19 »
The RC Subs PE set is awesome, but it calls out for something underneath. I have seen a resin set for the main deck underneath, but what about the con?
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Re: What's under the floors of the Winterturm decks?
« Reply #1 on: 20 Apr , 2015, 09:51 »
Hi bill,
Under the tower is mostly the towers pressure hull.
Under the wintergarten lower platform is the structures for the anti aircraft mount, and  tanks for weather balloons and decoys.
under the upper platform is the inlet pipework for both the engines and crew.
Also various connecting cables and wires to antennas.
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Re: What's under the floors of the Winterturm decks?
« Reply #2 on: 20 Apr , 2015, 10:15 »
Are there photos or diagrams that would allow me to scratch build these things?I have U-Boat Typ IXC: Vom Originel zum Modelbau on order from Germany, but don't know how detailed the book is.
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #3 on: 20 Apr , 2015, 14:49 »
Hi bill,


Try these to start you with then google pictures of U 534.


Regards
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #4 on: 20 Apr , 2015, 17:02 »
Thank you, that's a good start!
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #5 on: 21 Apr , 2015, 01:24 »
Quote from: Capt Kremin on 20 Apr , 2015, 14:49
Hi bill,


Try these to start you with then google pictures of U 534.


Regards
Jon

I wonder if the caption for 'HELI.jpg' is incorrect. I imagine the Helium was used for the Aphrodite Radar Decoys.
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #6 on: 21 Apr , 2015, 02:53 »

From E Rossler's book "Geschichte des deutschen Ubootbaus" ("The U-boats").
I hope these help










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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #7 on: 21 Apr , 2015, 06:26 »
Hi nz,
The file name is from someone else both the weather balloons and Aphrodite usd hydrogen, due to an acute shortage of helium in the Reich.
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #8 on: 24 Aug , 2015, 01:33 »

Bill, i found this today and I thought it might be helpful
Cheers,
SG

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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #9 on: 08 May , 2018, 22:04 »
If anyone could please post these pics again it would be great. I think that several of us would love to see them.

Later Tim
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #10 on: 08 May , 2018, 23:34 »
They may have be removed by photobucket because of copyright of the book "Geschichte des deutschen Ubootbaus" ("The U-boats").
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #11 on: 09 May , 2018, 06:24 »
In photobuckets case they changed their rules and now want folks to pay to host the pics that they share with websites such as this one, and many more. In most cases the pic posters do not want to pay the extra money to keep sharing their pics. So we get the above.
Of course in some cases it could be to copyright problems. With the 4 or 5 websiites I go to most is the change in photobucket rules and the folks not wanting to pay for the hosting fees.
Myself I wish that folks would just post the pics to the website. Most of the time (not always) the pics are not lost.

rant over

Later Tim
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #12 on: 19 May , 2018, 13:14 »

Thats what i can share
this should be the standart of Typ VII C boats under the wintergarten .
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Re: What's under the floors of the Wintergarten conning tower decks?
« Reply #13 on: 19 May , 2018, 17:11 »
Thanks

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