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Ported to OBJ from the model created for Silent Hunter 5 - Battle of the Atlantic (SH5) by Ubisoft. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. XPS artist Haganeya has done an excellent rigged port of this model which you can download by following the link below:

Type VIIC U-boat (posable) for XPS ver2

The Type VIIC was the third and one of the best in the Type VII series of fleet combat submarines or U-boats (unterseebooten) fielded by the Nazi German Navy or Reichkriegsmarine (RKM) during World War II. It was built in the greatest numbers and was the most widely used single class of U-boats in the Atlantic theater throughout the war, with 568 built all told. It featured all of the improvements of the preceding Type VIIB (dual rudders, relocated stern torpedo tube, more powerful engines, greater fuel capacity) but added a snorkel for running its diesels while submerged just below the surface, as well as other minor improvements and the addition of the German form of sonar that wound up lengthening its hull by two feet. Type VIICs were everywhere during the war, with some sent to operate in the Indian Ocean as part of Operation Monsun and a few even winding up in the Pacific and getting to tangle with American armed forces over there. In fact the Type VIIC was so successful that it would serve as the basis for all but one (the Type VIIF, a predecessor of sorts to the Type XIV) of all subsequent Type VII series variants. Almost all were lost during the war, with only a small handful surviving or escaping being scuttled at war's end to be turned over to the Allies as war prizes. No Type VIIC U-boats survive today save as sunken battle wrecks. To find out more about the RKM's Type VIIC U-boats of World War II, follow the links below:

uboat.net/types/viic.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_VII…

skip down to Type VIIC

naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/ger…

(you'll have to skip around in the article for Type VIIC related material)

This is a straight port with no changes by me. It's a reposting of an image of my own personal rip of the game model, which Haganeya used back in the day in conjunction with the Pack 3D rip to come up with his XPS rigged version. Hence the broken link on his download page to my old model post, which is no longer available for public download.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can either get Haganeya's rigged XPS version from the link above or the original Pack 3D posted model rip at the link below:

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - The most famous Type VIIC of them all in modern times is U-96, due largely to a partially fictionalized version of its seventh patrol voyage in late 1941 serving as the basis for the highly acclaimed, multiple Academy Award nominated 1981 foreign feature film Das Boot (The Boat). If you've been living under a rock somewhere and have never seen the movie, here's a link to the trailer as well as the movie's famed "Alarm!" sequence (both in the original German with English subtitles) and the crash dive scene (the last from the original U.S. English dubbed theatrical version):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzKye…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHOMm…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XoA7l…

Here is also a YouTube post for a music video for the techno version of the Das Boot main theme. I like it, you may not, but here it is anyway:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVxXbT…

Description

Ported to OBJ from the model created for Silent Hunter 5 - Battle of the Atlantic (SH5) by Ubisoft. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. XPS artist Haganeya has done an excellent rigged port of this model which you can download by following the link below:

Type VIIC U-boat (posable) for XPS ver2

The Type VIIC was the third and one of the best in the Type VII series of fleet combat submarines or U-boats (unterseebooten) fielded by the Nazi German Navy or Reichkriegsmarine (RKM) during World War II. It was built in the greatest numbers and was the most widely used single class of U-boats in the Atlantic theater throughout the war, with 568 built all told. It featured all of the improvements of the preceding Type VIIB (dual rudders, relocated stern torpedo tube, more powerful engines, greater fuel capacity) but added a snorkel for running its diesels while submerged just below the surface, as well as other minor improvements and the addition of the German form of sonar that wound up lengthening its hull by two feet. Type VIICs were everywhere during the war, with some sent to operate in the Indian Ocean as part of Operation Monsun and a few even winding up in the Pacific and getting to tangle with American armed forces over there. In fact the Type VIIC was so successful that it would serve as the basis for all but one (the Type VIIF, a predecessor of sorts to the Type XIV) of all subsequent Type VII series variants. Almost all were lost during the war, with only a small handful surviving or escaping being scuttled at war's end to be turned over to the Allies as war prizes. No Type VIIC U-boats survive today save as sunken battle wrecks. To find out more about the RKM's Type VIIC U-boats of World War II, follow the links below:

uboat.net/types/viic.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_VII…

skip down to Type VIIC

naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/ger…

(you'll have to skip around in the article for Type VIIC related material)

This is a straight port with no changes by me. It's a reposting of an image of my own personal rip of the game model, which Haganeya used back in the day in conjunction with the Pack 3D rip to come up with his XPS rigged version. Hence the broken link on his download page to my old model post, which is no longer available for public download.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can either get Haganeya's rigged XPS version from the link above or the original Pack 3D posted model rip at the link below:

For non-profit, non-commercial use only.

TRIVIA - The most famous Type VIIC of them all in modern times is U-96, due largely to a partially fictionalized version of its seventh patrol voyage in late 1941 serving as the basis for the highly acclaimed, multiple Academy Award nominated 1981 foreign feature film Das Boot (The Boat). If you've been living under a rock somewhere and have never seen the movie, here's a link to the trailer as well as the movie's famed "Alarm!" sequence (both in the original German with English subtitles) and the crash dive scene (the last from the original U.S. English dubbed theatrical version):

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pzKye…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJHOMm…

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XoA7l…

Here is also a YouTube post for a music video for the techno version of the Das Boot main theme. I like it, you may not, but here it is anyway:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVxXbT…