Ahoy all!

A couple of months ago I "caught" Mike Kloppenburg (callsign Kloppenburg) uploading his photos of this U-boot into his personnal gallery...
After all my latest issues I finnaly got the chance to make this MOD Feature, which was long overdue!
Thanks for your patience and support Mike

Enjoy,
Skipper

Link to Item

If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

EDIT: Mike used Revell's 1/72 scale Typ VII-C U-boot and the Eduard PE Set

Fantastic work, Mike!
Detail, weathering, all looks great! Thanks for sharing, mate.
~Gunny

Ahoy All,
Another "awesome" u-boat build! that is a fantasic ....beautiful paint job
and weathering...Mike! ...Thanks for sharing.

Have a nice day and happy modelling !
Joe

Wow, a real beauty! Good paint and weathering. Not to mention the presentation....

Hi Mike,

That's a grand looking boat you have there, very mean and nasty looking which is what they were all about. Really nicely finished.

Great job, thanks for sharing the pictures.

Cheers

Al

Hi MIke

I agree with all of the above comments.

Nice work I like the decals and the paint scheme.

Well done.

Regards

Sean

I can only follow my shipmates on their comment:

impressive paintjob and a very mean looking sub...

keep up the work.

Thank you for all of the nice comments. I have to thank one of my best friends with the presentation of this kit. He is a carpenter and I asked him if he could make me a base and he made this beautiful mahogany base that you see here. It is also setting on billet aluminum mounts I had made in a machine shop. I used PE set from Yankee Modelworks Type VII U-boat Detail Set. I chose to use decals from U.L.A.D. Germany Type VIIc U-boat No: UL7202. When I saw the wood deck set from Nautilus Models I had to get it. The build took almost a month. It’s not what I would call a hard kit or I should say a complex one. It has a minimum of parts and sub-assembles. The hardest thing to do was to open all of the flooding holes in the hull. It is painted with Model Master enamels and weathered with oils and pastels. One other problem is the shear size of the kit it becomes hard to work around it and it’s so big I cant even keep at my house.

Hi Mike

Welcome aboard Modelshipwrights and thank you for pointing out the correct AM parts

Skipper

Nicely done! As all have said before, weethering very real look, details on the deck gun nice touch, and beautiful base. Very nice! Excellent stuff!

Superb model, thanks for showing it to us. Only a month to build?! I wish I could work so fast and to such a standard

She's beautiful Mike. Makes me want to dig mine out and build it. Very classy display.

Nice job ! - U-203 had a net cutter splash shield and the antenna shroud? interesting I was not aware of this.