Hi Wiljan, long time since last contact. Hope all is well. Cheers, RB
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The cross-bar ends in an extension on the left side of the shoulder braces. This stud is glued to the underside after end of the breech. Same way on the single or twin. The gunner stands slightly aft to the right of the barrel(s), since the loader stands to the left of the breech. Rgds, RB
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Hi Ron, There is the big beast - I see he graciously left it to you with plenty of work yet to do. :-)) If you remember his phone# I appreciate a quick email to: r and h bruns @ msn.com (all together without spaces, typed this way to foil the email auto-addy readers). Tks, RB
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Roland, dank u well! You are a prince. Perhaps you know a fellow country man named Wiljan Bakers, a dutch modeler of big RC Uboats in 1:32 scale. If you by chance know him, I would like to get in touch with him again. Tks, RB
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It has been quite a while, since I last posted here. I also have not built a ship-model in over 55 years. So I am not waiting till Revell releases an early type IXC with Tower II and appropriate deck guns as built by Deschimag in Bremen (Series U171-176). I appreciate all your help in finding the following in 1/72 scale: 1) 2 turned Alum. periscopes 2) barrel for 2 cm flak 3) barrel or whole g
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Yes Ken, you are quite correct. Even though an engineering officer might outrank the IWO, the latter will preceed him as commanding officer until relieved. I dimly recall a reserve medical officer (Abel) assigned to one of the 7cFlak boats (?) succeeded bringing the boat back after CDR, IWO and 2WO were either KIA or severely wounded. Btw, this Abel was the brother of the IWO, who caused the cou
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