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I am in awe of your expertise, Hitman! I am in the process now of building a copy of the Angriffsscheibe from your template. You rock.
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LOL How I wish that was true
This is a matter that, the more you dig on it, the more you realize how little you know. There's nothing like losing a war to have the info about details be deleted and dissapear. You have no idea how difficult it is to get every bit of information about how the german periscopes worked, and what features they had
I have been in contact with the guy in charge of the Zeiss archives, and even they lost most info after the war. Also the guys who care about U-505 in the museum know almost nothing about such details, and the periscopes on U-505 are no longer in working condition. Same for the U-995 and Vessikko.
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What is your interface called? I would like to try it, too!
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It's Hitman Optics, and it comes already with NYGM >3.2 versions as optional mod. For GWX, you can see screenshots and get it here:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=147757
If not for anything else, you can download it (It's a very small d/l) for teh documentation. I included on it a dossier about german optics with pictures and info.
I'm working for a long time already in a major new version, which is nearly ready, but there are still some things I'm undecided about
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EDIT: One other question – I just watched a video tutorial by OLC where he is showing his scope without the doubled mast values, and with numbered horizontal gradations of 10, 20 and 30 as opposed to 5, 10, 15. So each line is worth two marks, and mast values are not doubled. Is this more realistic than his first draft? Or does it represent a system for later/earlier in the war than the other one, and is equally realistic depending on the time?
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AFAIK that had nothing to do with realism, it's just an option he chose for making the use of it easier, but that was dropped later in newer versions when OLC realised that he could do it other way round.