depth charge mark 11

[ice]

Hello fellow modelers!

I'd like to add two scratchbuilt depth charges to my 1/72 Merlin but I only have picures showing the front and the side and now I ask myself how many fins the tail has got.

This Link says it has 4 fins but on the pictures it looks like 3 fins: http://www.the-grey-lynx.com/armamento/armament_mk11.htm

I took these pics last year but unfortunately I took no picture from the rear.

Any help on this would be great!

Edited January 11, 2010 by ice

[The Velociweiler]

Depth Charge Mk11 Mod. 3 Tail has three fins. You can take that as gospel. Was fitting them to Glamorgan's Lynx more than twenty-five years ago. Note the fitting on the face of the Bomb too, which effectively presents a forward face of the bomb which is angled very slightly.

[ice]

Depth Charge Mk11 Mod. 3 Tail has three fins. You can take that as gospel. Was fitting them to Glamorgan's Lynx more than twenty-five years ago.

Thank you sooo much! That means my eyes were right and the website was wrong.

Note the fitting on the face of the Bomb too, which effectively presents a forward face of the bomb which is angled very slightly.

That's a good hint. I didn't recognize that before.

If someone's got a good picture of the tail made from behind it would help me really much scratchbuilding it.

[tonyp]

What colour would these be if a live round and during the 70s and 80s? Plan to attach one to a Royal Australian Navy Tracker.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

[The Velociweiler]

What colour would these be if a live round and during the 70s and 80s? Plan to attach one to a Royal Australian Navy Tracker.

Thanks in advance.

Tony

Aussie munitions - as far as my experience goes - follow the same colouring\hazard banding markings as throughout NATO, and this applied to that period too. A Royal Navy depth charge would have been all over deep bronze green with a 1 inch yellow band around the middle or forward section of the bomb (locations varied....). I'd be surprised to find an Australian example would have been different.