By Joe Turner
Feature
ADVANCED BUILD
Joe Turner gets to grips with Border Model’s imposing, sectional 1/35 Type VIIC U-boat.
Germany’s U-boats – hunting in so-called ‘wolf packs’ – sank thousands of tons of allied shipping during the early part World War Two’s Battle of the Atlantic. The key weapon in the Kriegsmarine’s underwater arsenal was the Type VII U-boat, of which 703 were built, the main variant being the VIIC. The design was certainly advanced for the time, as it could dive to a maximum depth of approximately 230m and had a range (on the surface) of more than 8,500nm, and 80nm submerged; the boat was nearly undetectable during the war’s early stages.
The Type VI
