Type XI cruiser in 1/72nd scale

[cthulhu77]

I finally am getting around to doing this project, and it will probably bore most of you to tears...a very, very, very large submarine. Styrene cutting starts today, after the Mrs. wakes up. I might have it done in a year or so...no telling. Hell, it took me longer than that to complete the SeaTiger!
The type Eleven cruiser was an interesting take on submarine design (those of you who have not purchased "My Tank is Fight" should do so immediately), with a submersible platform that mounted four 127 mm guns, as well as AA. While a failure in WW2, the design may actually not be so far fetched for today's littoral combat zones.

[B777LR]

You mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUkKWxN8Sq4

[cthulhu77]

Very fun!  The type 11b was even bigger...two twin mountings of 127mm guns, four 37's, and more 20's.  Can you imagine? Think of four Kingtiger tanks all firing at once. Yikes. With support. Double yikes.
Just told my wife. She isn't happy.

[Mossie]

I've got 'My Tank is Fight', looking forward to this!

Just told my wife. She isn't happy.

What's she worried about, it's only 1/72 scale!!!   I guess you haven't threatened to build a dock from the CMK Martime Line stuff.....
http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?MANUFACTURER=CMK+Maritime+Line&NUMPERPAGE=50&order_asc=type

[cthulhu77]

I see they are doing a 11b too...christ almighty. Everything I plan out, someone has done or is doing!!!!

*neat stuff...yeah, might have to get some of that dock stuff.

[Maverick]

Very fun!  The type 11b was even bigger...two twin mountings of 127mm guns, four 37's, and more 20's.  Can you imagine? Think of four Kingtiger tanks all firing at once.

Hey Greg,

Best of luck with the build, altho the King Tiger had an 88mm, the Jagdtiger was the 128mm armed vehicle.

Regards,

Mav

[cthulhu77]

Friggin JMN. Forgot...Jagtiger !

(yes, I am kidding)

Well, everything has to start somwhere:

[Brian da Basher]

Hmmm ok Greg you've got my interest! You always cranbk out awesome ship models and this one is bound to be one for the books!1 I'm going to really enjoy seeing that Focke-Achgelis on the deck!

Brian da Basher

[Sisko]

I might steal some of your ideas if you don't mind

This is something that I have always wanted to try.

[B777LR]

Hmmm ok Greg you've got my interest! You always cranbk out awesome ship models and this one is bound to be one for the books!1 I'm going to really enjoy seeing that Focke-Achgelis on the deck!

Brian da Basher

Brian, if im not mistaken, the Focke-Agelis was made for use on the U-boots. They would be towed by the boot. Dont know if any got to see use though...

[nev]

Oh man, we need a popcorn smiley 

Will it be on a sea base diorama?  Will it?  Huh?  Huh?  Will it?

[cthulhu77]

Steal away!

Nev, I am leaning towards a water dio...it would save time in hull construction, for sure.

The FA's were used often on type 9 boats in the Med, and seemed to work well...except for the poor bugger who had to up there in the piping!

[cthulhu77]

http://modelingmadness.com/reviews/axis/previews/ewald330preview.htm

Ridiculous price for a tiny thing...about an inch and a half long.

[jcf]

Steal away!

Nev, I am leaning towards a water dio...it would save time in hull construction, for sure.

The FA's were used often on type 9 boats in the Med, and seemed to work well...except for the poor bugger who had to up there in the piping!

The Bachstelze were only used operationally off of Type IX-D2 boats in the Indian Ocean, not the Med, some training and testing was done in the Baltic. U-177 performed the first operational trials in 1943, most of what is known about Bachstelze operations is from the records of U-177.
Surviving Fa 330 pilots have confirmed that they rarely got airborne as a large number of the U-boat commanders didn't like hassling with the machines. The Fa 330 staffel was disbanded in June 1944.

A project to motorize the Fa 330 as the Fa 336 powered by a Walter Mikron inverted 4-cylinder engine, thus giving the machine some autonomy from the sub, was begun in 1943 but canceled in March 1944.

Info from 'Helicopters of the Third Reich', Steve Coates with J.C. Carbonel, Classic Publications, 2002.

Jon

[cthulhu77]

If you had bothered to read my article, you would have realized that I made a slight error...yes, the Indian ocean. Soooooorrrry. Not. (friggin jmns)

I am doing the 330, the smaller version...and this one will be towed behind the subcruiser. Think Piano wire!