Next the snorkel is made up, This part is moveable so care must be taken to follow the instructions if you want it to work. Switching back to the bow, the bow planes are added along with the anchor and protective guides for the bow planes. Once these are on the stern planes and twin rudders can be added. Construction now moves to the stern and the details for the propeller shafts, propellers and supporting structure are added. The stand can then be made up and the hull placed on it. Once this is don't two internal bulkheads for strength are added in and the left/right hull sections can be joined. such is the large number of these additional parts that a complete separate instruction book is provided for them.Ĭonstruction begins with the torpedo tube, the modeller must decide whether to have them open or shut and then fit the respective parts into the hull sections. This new boxing is a Platinum edition, It contains all of the original plastic, two large sheets of photo etch, self adhesive wooden decks and metal parts for the Periscopes (extended & retracted), snorkel mast, radar mast, nav lights, ensign staff, boom support, & gun barrels. This boxing is a re-release of Revell's new tooling from 2003 which was released again in 2006. For anyone familiar with the original "Das Boot" mini series U-96 was a Type VIIC. The submarines generally carried a crew of 44 to 52 men in what can best be described as "cramped" conditions. A maximum submerged speed of 7.6 knots was possible with a new fully charged battery. For surface running and battery charging a pair of supercharged 6 cylinder 4 stroke diesel engines were used which gave a top speed of 17.7 knots. The boats had 4 forward, and one stern tube in general (there were a few exceptions) with 14 torpedoes being carried. The type VIIC would become the main boat of the German Navy with 568 being built between 19. The type started as the V11A with an initial 10 being built. As with anything there would be many modifications along the way. This type would go onto become the most used German submarines of WWII with over 700 being built. The Type VII submarine was based on earlier German designs.
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