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German U-Boat U-96 question?

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  • Member since
    March 2006
  • From: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
German U-Boat U-96 question?
Posted by Yann Solo on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 8:18 PM

Hello all,

It's been a while since I've posted here.  I was mainly an armor modeler back then. 

I am currently building the Revell 1/72 German U-boat Class VIIC and I want to make it as U-96 in Das Boot movie.  I know in the movie the swordfish emblem appears to be black or very very dark shade of a color like blue.  I'm pretty sure it's been discussed many many times but I was wondering if anybody have a good idea of the actual color.  Some says it was red, others says it was blue and even some people says it was green.

I feel like I should paint it has seen in the movie anyway since I want to illustrate U-96 FROM the movie.

I planned to make it with a mix of Tamiya Sea BLue XF-17 and Nato Black XF-69.

What do you think?

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Connecticut, USA
Posted by Aurora-7 on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 9:27 PM

I'm pretty sure the emblem from the movie is in black.

The sword fish emblem has been used on several u-boats and this link to a page on the Uboat.net site discusses a little about them.

http://www.uboat.net/special/emblems

Click on the link for "The laughing sawfish - 9th Flotilla"

The site even has a link to a U-96 'museum':

http://www.uboat.net/gallery/articles/u96_bavaria_studios.htm

 

 

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  • From: Drummondville, Quebec, Canada
Posted by Yann Solo on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 9:13 AM
Thank you, this is a great site.
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Posted by intruder_bass on Friday, July 11, 2008 12:58 PM

 It was black on U-96.

Dark blue was the color of emblem of the rest swordfishes in 9th flotilia as far as I know.

Andy

 

BTW if you look closly in the movie the emblem is slightly shifted aft comparing to real one.

 

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