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Can 1:35 late German tank crew sub for Uboat
oyoy23
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Posted: Friday, December 22, 2017 - 07:40 AM UTC
Can this work
RedDuster
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Posted: Saturday, December 23, 2017 - 03:51 AM UTC
Hi Sean,

No reason why not, with a bit of fettling. The coveralls are pretty much the same, and there are a few pics of tankers in U boat leathers, all I would be aware of the short panzer jackets might not work.

With a bit of searching, there are quite a few sets of German tank crew, you should be able to find some that will fit. just needs a bit of research.

Cheers

Si
mag135
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Posted: Sunday, December 24, 2017 - 08:28 PM UTC
You can use the torpedo boat crew from Italeri, too.
Biggles2
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Posted: Sunday, December 24, 2017 - 09:37 PM UTC
To go to extremes, there's a few seconds of You Tube footage of a U-Boat bridge crew wearing DAK uniforms, complete with Mod 41 DAK field caps. The film was not captioned but presumably the sub was either in tropical waters, or in the Med.
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Posted: Sunday, December 24, 2017 - 10:51 PM UTC
Some wore stocks of British BD captured in 1940 too. The HJ Panzer crews in submarine leathers wore Italian kit, not Kriegsmarine.
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