No but it resembles it greatly.

Anyway time to find that book!!

Looks great tankeriv..

I'll definately be using these over the stock ones or the skins I am using now.

I thought that the torpedos would be in truth more dirty and rusty when they reach the water...

I'm wrong?

BTW, it's a great work! :up:

Rubini.

German
http://stevetimko.tripod.com/munichd...seumuboat3.jpg

(american may be?)
http://www.homeboys-adventures-in-au.../per/per22.jpg



American, German, British (from top down)
http://www.ilexikon.com/images/c/c4/Torpedos_axb01.jpg

G7a
http://www.pastfoundation.org/DeepWrecks/images/G7a.jpg

German + American torps. - German foreground
http://www.verifine.org/Large/r4-31.jpg

I don't know, but the brass type warhead is very much evident, and the body is either brushed metal or brushed brass as well. That's from what I gather, if this helps anyone, good. :88) I think that the one you submitted is very close to the one I posted last, but I think you mistook the reflections in dark room for black. It's actually brushed aluminum. It looks to me that way. But of course I can be wrong.

@AL - I think they never bothered after certain period to paint them. :hmm:

Rusty torps dont seem like they would be very dependable torps. Great job on the new skins!

As far as i can say they were raw metal,covered with grease fat.
I even got a picture somwhere ,in daylight in color ,during a resupply
It looked like the brass copperhead variant ,just that it was covered with yellowish or dark brown grease.
That they were covered grease before shooting ,that seems ovious to me.
to the rust I dont know the english term but the "Flug Rost" is no problem if the torpedo is covered with grease.

I can't see the point in painting them unless it made them smoother or corrosion resistent than plain metal.
The warheads would proberly be coloured for quick identification.

Though none of that proberly helps at all :know:

Any chance of you releasing these as they are now.I think they are fine as is and no need to change a thing with them.

so, where do I get this mod?

will be there soon. :)

Salt water is very corrosive and can be very damaging even over short time periods. I'm guessing they kept them covered in grease to keep them protected from the salt water while in storage in the u-boat. Don't want to increase the risk of duds unnecisarily.

It probably also helped with sliding the torpedo into the tubes.

I can be wrong, but I think it's the torpedo tubes that were greased, not torpedoes themsleves = exactly for that purpose of easy sliding, and this grease was changed after patrols or reapplied if needed. The pics show torpedoes all scratched up but that looks like brushed metal only.

I don't think the torpedoes specifically were greased as that would have made them harder to handle and load, as well as messy (just imagine it for sec). Also you'd have to grease them one by one. With tubes greased - none of this matters. I think they were ok in storage rooms, as they wasted the torpedoes quite often, and the amount of duds was more due to technology than salt water eroding the surface....

I'm just using common sense on this, so I can be wrong, but I think I'm not.

Anyone can confirm for sure?

I'm not sure if I remember correctly, but weren't some sailors applying grease on torpedoes in the Das Boot movie, just at the beginning of the patrol?
This, of course, doesn't confirm anything.........

Yes.

And in one of the previous pics I linked to, the torpedo being loaded from the deck is clearly greased from head to toe.

still no place to get this mod? or are you just taunting us with the pics