need info on U-boat uniforms

lsc1002 · Post by **lsc1002** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:10 pm

Does anyone know of a good site that shows German U-boat uniforms in color. Much appreciated

Gunner · Post by **Gunner** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:30 pm

Osprey Publishing has put out several good books on the subject, including:

Grey Wolf - U-Boat Crewmen of WWII
German Seaman (1939-1945)

And a couple of others that I can't lay my hands on at the moment.

Your FLHS or FLGS (Friendly Local Hobby Shop or Friendly Local Game Shop) can get them for you, or try www.abebooks.com, or order direct from Osprey...

MG-42 · Post by **MG-42** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:53 pm

........or just go to your local "Barnes & Noble". They can order anything you want. If you don't like it,....simply return it for a full refund,...which some shops won't do. You can also check out their web-site too,..to get ISBN #'s of specific titles you're interested in. Here's their site : http://www.barnesandnoble.com

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 10:18 pm

are you working on a 1:18 scale sub.

MG-42 · Post by **MG-42** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:21 am

lsc1002 · Post by **lsc1002** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:13 am

No I am no doing a Sub

Right now I am doing a U-boat captain, but after seeing Woofers bunker on ebay I thought maybe I could do a bridge for display.

Post by **aferguson** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 1:44 pm

Fly Models make a 1/100 scale paper model kit of German submarines; it includes both at type viic and and type ix uboat. You could enlarge the bridge portion of one of the boats from the kit (via a photocopier) and as much of the deck and hull as you want and either use them as patterns for scratchbuilding your u-boat bridge or just build it from paper and paint it. Don't be fooled by the name 'paper model'...I've built a couple of paper models now and they can be made into surprisingly nice models.

Using a paper model as the base for scratch building really reduces the work load, as all the tedious measuring and scaling is already done for you. The kit costs around $15 or so.

pilotman · Post by **pilotman** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 5:33 pm

Aferg,

Theres agreat article in Scale Models International or fine scale modeler magazine on german u boats. I'm not sure if SMI has their past articles online but i know fine scale modeler does. Hope that helps.

pilotman · Post by **pilotman** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:47 pm

Sorry, that was meant for the thread starter isc1002.

pilotman · Post by **pilotman** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:16 pm

ok, I just found the article. its from the jan. issue of fine scale modeler.

Its a cool article on a 1/144 scale german uboat in dry dock. excellently done.

lsc1002 · Post by **lsc1002** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:57 am

Thanks for all the info....

Black_Dragon_One · Post by **Black_Dragon_One** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:52 pm

any one work with molding and fiberglass.

and how much detail can come out with the use of fiber glass.