Worked like a charm with a little trimming. I then used the left over cut out acetate as templates for cutting masks from Tamiya tape. You punch them out, run a bead of CAC around the inside frame and press in place and they fit perfectly. There are 4 pieces of thin, precut acetate.
#U boot biber windows
There has been some written about the windows – I like them. I also built the stand here as it gave the sub a place to rest. You then add the keels, prop shaft and lots of PE all of which fits wonderfully. Little putty here or there at most is needed. You trap the rudder and exhaust and close the hull and the fit is good all the way around. I will say that after you finish the build, you can’t see much at all even with the tiny hatch open. The PE instrument panel/decal arrangement looked great. There is not much room and it is cramped. Looking at pictures on I added some additional valves, etc to the cockpit. I broke the assembly down to the torpedoes and the sub it self and started with the interior of the sub. The photoetch fret has parts for hatches, the splash shield instrument panel and the brackets for the rails for the torpedoes. Italeri has some of the most perfect weld lines I have ever seen. Bibers were built in three sections and then welded together. The sprues caught my attention first- they are excellent. There are also two figures included on the sprues. The kit comes with 2 excellent sprues of plastic for the sub, a sheet of photoetch, decal sheet and an acetate sheet for the windows. Italeri has produced the first injection molded kit of the Biber in a nice 1/35 th scale. While not very successful (they sank or damaged 9 ships versus losses of 70 subs), they do hold a spot in the history of the Kriegsmarine. There were 324 built towards the end of the war. While there are several different types, the one we are looking at is a one man sub named Biber (Beaver). Many don’t realize the Germany also had a very active midget submarine effort going where one or two man subs attacked and sunk shipping. These are typically the large Type VII and Type IX boats.
#U boot biber tv
Nether the less, from 1944 till the end of the Second World War, the Kriegsmarine took delivery and placed in operation more then 300 Bibers.Most people are aware of the large WWII German U-boats as they appear in movies, video games and on TV very frequently. Both due to it’s technical and design defects and for the crew trained, for war needs, excessively fast and without necessary formation. Anyhow, the Biber was never a serious threat for the Allied.
The deployment of the Biber, within the Kriegsmarine strategy, was very simple: supply an efficient defence of the cost shore as protection to a possible, further more probable, Allied invasion.
The Biber could have been equipped with two 530mm torpedoes mounted externally or with two mines. Able to reach a merged maximum speed of 6,5 notches and 5,3 notches submerged.
With only 9 meters length, it was capable of a 240 kilometres range. The design began in February 1944 and first examples were set to sea only 6 months later. The development of the Biber was extremely rapid. “Biber” was the most notorious “poket size” submarine deployed by the Kriegsmarine, German’s third Reich marine during the end of Second World War.
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