U Boat Dio Ideas

How about a U-Boat coming in from a voyage and being greeted by people on the dock? I see your last name is Levine. Are you jewish? If so, how come you want to build a U-boat?

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"Enemy Below"-type scenario comes to mind.....

-- John The history of things that didn't happen has never been written. . - - - Henry Kissinger

1. Surfaced U-boat (in process of making a run for it and crash diving) under aerial attack (Academy PBY or Hasegawa TBF?)...aircraft mounted on a wire which extends from the base.

I like the dry dock ide, or some partial sort of display set up that way. That's what I may do, or a fresh boat on or going down the launching ways - there's one you can add to the list.

I saw a picture once of a pre-war german u-boat that had washed ashore somewhere in England during a storm (or something like that.) Lots of men, women and children in their finest sunday clothes walking around it, looking up at that giant beast from the deep.

Pretty awe-inspiring ...

Hi,Ho

I did a dio in 1/700 with a ship going down and a surfaced u-boat passing by with a lifeboat full of ship crewmembers

Found it:

Same picture, but without the yucky greenish tint:

Another picture of U-118, taken from a different angle:

Pauli G wrote

There was also one U-boat that surrendered to an RAF Coastal Command plane, that had to circle the surfaced boat until the Navy turned up...

Or RN destroyer next to surfaced U-boat, and see if anyone can spot the Enigma machine be taken off the U-boat...

BV 138 flying boat refueling from U-Boat mid-Atlantic. Both used the same mix of diesel. The problem with this is that you have to build the Supermodel BV 138, which is not for the faint of heart.

Mark Schynert

weren't the milch cows variations on the type 7"s who's the most fanatic basher?

Here's a good start for a bash -

so a milk cow reloading another 7c could be done. you'll need 4 kits now, rufe, or is that 5?

Make it five...who's counting...my source already has a second one waiting for me.

Somewhere in my research I ran across something that said U-boats operating in the far north atlantic had thier upper surfaces painted white...that would be another cool paint scheme to try! So there's at least three I'd like to do as of now - a "tiger striped" one, U-96 from "Das Boot", one with a red hull, and a white one. I think this is going to be a REALLY fun model to paint.

AND - I'm looking into just what I'll be getting into if I open up all those spill holes in the sides of the hull...it's screaming "just do it"! I'd like to see some etch for this kit - not really for the deck plating, but for the guns, conning tower, and such. So I'll be gathering my fleet and waiting a bit to start actually laying keels...