To continue building my U-Boat fleet, I am constructing two Type VIIC / Atlantic boats. Here you can see the two hulls that are being waterlined.
The periscopes are too long when the hulls are cut down. So the periscopes have to be cut down too.
The model is designed so the scopes can be moved up and down but I won't do that with mine.
The hulls have had their initial cut, but still need to be cleaned up, glued together and have the hull top and bottoms put on them.
Upside down the hull bow looks like the hull of a WWI Destroyer. Pretty interesting.
Why all the U-Boats you ask? There is significant wargame potential with U-Boats. Several U-Boats dropped off spies and saboteurs here in the USA during WWII. Many times U-Boats dropped off weather stations in Greenland, and even northern Canada. These automated stations would send back information so the Germans could predict the weather better than the Allies.
U-Boats also supplied soldiers, and sailors for manned weather stations in Norway and Russia; some of these stations actually had limited combat against British Commandos and other forces. U-Boats operated as far from Germany as Japan. They took passengers and supplies and plans back and forth between those nations almost to the end of the war; in Europe anyway. U-Boats attacked and captured Allied ships and even visited Antactica to replenish their fresh water and explore.
Any of these scenarios would be pretty good wargame fodder. Of course, you could also build a U-Boat pen at attack with from the air or ground as well.
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