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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:01 am 
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Those are flood vents. Nautilus Models has a template set for them on this page.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:31 am 
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I realized I forgot to post this in here, US Navy Instructions for Camouflage Measure 32, patterns 3SS-b and 9SS.

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 7:56 am 
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I've been looking over the link you posted Tracy, but I don't understand how these are to actually look like on the real sub. Do the Nautilus Templates come with full instructions for challenged people like me? :big_grin:

Reason I ask is the templates look like holes that are way to big but I probably an not paying attention to scale.

Iron Bottom Sound provides templates with there resin kits, are these just limber holes or do they include bottom hole locations too?


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PostPosted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:52 am 
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You'd be better off asking James from Nautilus or Mario from IBS directly in regards to instructions; I've got the 72nd Gato but it's lower on my list of things to do so I haven't picked up any of the templates yet. These holes weren't small; for a crash dive you do want rapid flooding!

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:53 pm 
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Does anyone have a photo of the USS Barb with the multiple 5' rocket launcher on board in 1945?

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 10:20 pm 
Am I overlooking something here, or does Revell not supply enough decals to repeat the same number on both sides of the 1/72 Gato's conning tower? There's plenty for the hull numbers. I guess I'll have to paint her in full wartime patrol (the ditched the numbers during hostilities, correct?)


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Check out the photos of Gato at Mare Island during the war. Even that far from the front lines she had no numbers on the conning tower.

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PostPosted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 1:07 am 
What about the small numbers on the bow, would those still be there?


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I'm not going to say never, but you don't see them in the photos coming out of Mare Island refits with fresh paint otherwise.

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Anyone have any photos of USS Barb (SS20) with the 5 in (130 mm) rocket launchers in 1945?

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id like to build one of trumpeters Gatos as one of the boats of subron 50 based at Roseneath on the Clyde in 42/43,can anyone help with the configuration of the sail on theses boats,i.e where in the orginal configuration or modified with cut down towers,ive got one photo in a book on the USN base there of a couple of the boats at Roseneath which certainly shows a cut down aft sail and 20mm fitted but thats all the info ive got,any help appreciated .
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2009 2:35 am 
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At first I did not buy the Revell's Gato 1:72 because I have no space to keep it, I opted for Trumpeter's Gato 1:144 instead. But when a fellow modeler offered to sell a built Gato 1:72 for just $19 I just couldn't resist buying. He also offered a built typeVIIC 1:72 for just $16 and though I have one already I bought another - thinking of converting it to type VIIC/41.

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Hope I didn't miss this, I just read through the pages in this thread, but anyway does anyone have any experience with the PE offered by WEM and Nautilus for the Trumpy 1:144 Gato model? Any read differences between the two?

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Always open. This was before a lot of work was done for noise reduction.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 10:45 am 
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Tracy,

How about mesh covers for ventral ports? I know they weren't used during the was as not to interfere with the water flow for more rapid submergences but were they are prior to the war on earlier boats?

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:54 pm 
Carr,

Go to navsource.org and check the photos on the Manitowac Gatos, starting with USS Peto. There are some photos there. Manitowac built there boats literally upside to aid in welding, so you're actually looking at the bottom of the hulls. The shape of the flood holes is quite visible.


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Subs aren't the only vessels launched like that; try a YouTube search for "side Launch" some time.

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Tracy White wrote:
Subs aren't the only vessels launched like that; try a YouTube search for "side Launch" some time.



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