1/72 U-505 Painting advice. Help!!!

Remember that each photo will show a different tone due to film quality, reproduction method, lighting, weathering etc. Wet surfaces will also appear darker. The rocket biz site is the best source of information. Another factor was that each color batch could be slightly different even within the same manufacturers, resulting in two boats painted with the same color but one being lighter or darker in appearance.

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Please note comments from Dougie.   He really is the recognized expert on U-Boat schemes.

Question,  What is the best way to recreate the three shell holes in the side of the conning tower?  

CAPT Dan Gallery Getting Photo taken....

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Some fantastic photos on that site! Thanbks for the link.

www.uboatarchive.net/U-505InspectionPhotos.htm

Great shots from Bermuda where they hid the sub.

Ordered cloth flags from Modelflags.com.   Looking forward to getting them on.

I hope it looks ok.  

LOL.  I got it as soon as it came out.   Been working on it since it came from Freetime.   I was in the preorder shipout.   Without PE add ons it's really not that hard a kit to build.   the colors were the biggest debate.   I'm wondering what happened to the cables running from the back of the conning tower,   My guess is they were shot away since they don't show up in the photos.  It has been fun.   I still have fine tuning and more weathering.      

Boy, you didn't waste any time. You knocked that sucker out.

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well that didn't work either....

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Ok so whats the trick on photos here?

Lets try it again,,,,,,

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Here it is so far....

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Jake. Should be May 14, 1945 off the coast of Lewes Delaware.

 Okay Guys. I've seen a few close-ups of the Revell U-505 and I think I'm gonna wait on this one. I'm not saying its not a good kit, but it appears it needs a lot of work to have a correct U-505. And if I wait, some great PE and aftermarket stuff will be available, not to mention the kit will be on sale.

What year was the photo with the helo and blimp?

Texchap. Yeah, not a whole lot to get excited about there. Didn't they know in 1944 how important clear color photos would be in 2014?:-) I think I'm going with the U-858 colors, heavily weathered of course.

 Hokey. I misfired on one photo but its the same photo as the one you can see.

www.youtube.com/watch    Color video of capture.    Too bad it's blury.  

No photo there.

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 Critical Past has a few reels in color of the capture of U-505 but the color is so off its probably not much help.

Good thing that I have MM Dunkelgraun51 in my paints for my 1/350 U-505 ;-) Whenever I do get around to it.

Dougie Martindale is the recognized expert on all of the sites.   There really is not much difference in shade between the Modelmaster Dunkelgrau 51 and the Lifecolor Blaugrau.   Its all preference.   I will follow Dougies advice.    I painted the Dunkelgrau over the Blaugrau and it came out very realistic looking.   I will post pictures later.  

Check out this site: uboat.net/.../read.php .  

You are correct. The  aircraft do look dark.  That is the frustration and also the challenge.    He also states how the crews mixed paints.  Frustrating LOL.   In the article he is convinced that the Dunkelgrau 51 is the color on many of the boats.   What is interesting  is he doesn't list Blaugrau as being applied to any sub at all on on any part of them.   I laughed when he said they were educated guesses. That seems to be the case.     I recall the heated debates on the color of the USS ARIZONA at the time of its sinking.   It all came down to the word of a survivor that described painting it light blue which turned out to be 5s Navy Blue.   There is a real issue when it comes to photos of the day.   If you look at the color closeup posted by Leftie, the color on the 803 is an close match for Lifecolors  Blaugrau.  It's also a close match for the Model Master Dunkelgrau 51.   Arg LOL.