![]() ![]() And as I’m writing this I was doing some Googling into this kit, and it appears to be ‘just’ a downscaled variant of their 1/144 or 1/72 scale kit. The guns, both the 88 mm deck gun and the auxiliary AA gun mounted on the rear of the turret look reasonably well. But weirdly, the included stand had a large piece of flash stuck to it, but that is easily removable. Despite that, the railings look a bit too thick, but this is a media limitation, the soft grey plastic Revell uses is probably not the best to mold thin pieces of plastic in. The smaller bits like the railings, propellers and guns do have some small flash, but look reasonably well. The deck piece is even more detailed, and this looks even better and has no flash. The hull of the boat looks pretty great, with some nice detailing and well defined ‘holes’ in the side of the hull and rivets where they should appear. The whole kit is as usual contained in one plastic bag. It comes in the old style Revell SOB (Side Opening Box) with the as usual nice artwork on the front. Unless you absolutely need decals with Swastikas. So if you’re making a Das Boot diorama look no further. Speaking of the U-96, markings of this iconic ship are in this kit as one would expect. The Type VII C is probably the most famous U-Boats of them all, as U-96 was the boat that served as the decor in the book ‘Das Boot’ and the movie based on the book. It also carried a 88 mm gun with 160 shells on the deck. Equipped with 5 torpedo tubes, 4 at the front and one at the rear it could carry up to 11 torpedos. Designed in 1933-1934, between 19 a total of 568 of this type were built. The German U-Boot Type VII C was the workhorse of the Kriegsmarine during WW2.
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