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Date: July 14, 2005 12:16PM I read recently a report of some U-Boats in Norwegian bases with varying colour schemes, some were described as blue or grey, one as 'bright' blue and one as black and white. It was this latter that interested me. Arctic patrol obviously, but where all boats operating up there painted black & white?
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maintaining a consistent paint scheme throughout its U-boat fleet. Given that the paint itself changed in appearance as the U-boat became weathered, the greys seen upon late-war U-boats would have varied so much that it might not appear as if the colours used on these U-boats were standardised at all.
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Yes I did win second place with my 1/32nd scale type 7C u-boat,and still have the silver bowl to prove it . Since I build R/C boats I look for colors that are easy to apply,touch up , purchase and hold up to the wear and tear of constant use. therefore I use TESTORS FLAT RED, FLAT BLACK AND FLAT LIGHT GRAY.
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U-boat commander SCHNEE painted his conning tower of his type XXI white because he felt that a ligther color was harder to see from the air. So , as you can see there was alot of variations that depended on time frame of the war etc.
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Type VII U-Boat. First launched in June 1936, the Type VII was not the best submarine in any particular aspect, but it was the most successful of the war and formed the backbone of the U-boat force. Like many other military designs, the original Type VII was quickly modified to provide longer range, better performance and revised armament.
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the basic colors for the wartime Type VII u-boat is as follows: Vertical surfaces: Conning tower and hull above waterline: Light gray. Hull below waterline: Dark gray. * Please note that the anti-fowling paint was also. available in dark gray. Horizontal surfaces: Main deck and conning tower deck: * Black.
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Paint schemes Posted by: P_Woodworth () Date: November 18, 2010 12:04AM Hi all, I was just wondering if the U-Boats had any particular paint schemes. I know US subs experimented with stripes, black, and slate gray. Was there any such experimenting with the U-boats, or where they all gray, like seen on the top of the website. Thanks, Paul
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The Wolf Pack III: A Final Collection Of U-Boat Modeling Articles: The second volume of The Wolf Pack continues in the same vein and includes eight more articles. Once again the general theme is to explore the modifications, insignia and paint colors of Kriegsmarine U-boats so that modelers can make accurate renditions of specific U-boats.
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U-82 was launched on May 15. 1940 in Bremen (shipyard: Bremer Vulkan). It was officially commissioned for action under Kapitänleutnant Siegfried Rollmann on May 14. 1941. The boat was assigned to the 3.U-boot Flotille and sank 52,986 tons of enemy shipping on three combat patrols.
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U-Boat Tamiya paint questions 9632 views. 10 replies. Order Ascending; Order Descending; mg42gunner. Member since July 2006; From: Rochester NY; U-Boat Tamiya paint questions. Posted by mg42gunner on Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:13 AM. Thanks for the reply, I think ill order these paint colors. For the deck I did some searching and it seemed to.
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This is the place to discuss general issues related to the U-boat war or the war at sea in WWII. Re: Paint Schemes. I am not 100% sure about the U-boats colour scheme, but I have read about German warship painting. The sources differs a lot in opinions about this, but my own personal view is that the colour schemes were not coordinated that.
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The boat was assigned to the 3.u-boot flotille and sank 52,986 tons of enemy shipping on three combat patrols. on february 27. 1942, on the return voyage from the eastern u.s. coast (operation paukenschlag), during an attack on convoy os-18 it was sunk by the british sloop hms rochester and the corvette hms tamarisk, north of the azores..
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There is one photo in particular, that provides a reasonably good indication of the three shades of grey for the upper hull, lower hull, and the deck. It is from this photo I decided to paint my sub in the three Tamiya colours. I am confident that the Tamiya XF-19 is a good match for the upper hull and conning tower.
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Generally, U-boats were painted in very dark grey ( not hull red) below the waterline, and medium/ light grey above the waterline. The very dark grey extended to the tops of the ballast tanks.
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Example model shown with optional "weathering" paint scheme. Type VII U-boats were the most common type of German submarine in World War II. The Type VII was based on earlier German submarine designs going back to the World War I . Type VII submarines were the most widely used U-boats of the war and were the most produced submarine class in history, with 703 built. .