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Ported to OBJ from the stock model included with the video game Silent Hunter 3 (SH3) by Ubisoft, as tweaked for use with the fan-created Grey Wolves eXpansion v3 (GWX3). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The third class in the famed Type IX series of long range oceangoing U-boats (unterseebooten) operated by the Nazi German Navy or Reichkriegsmarine (RKM) during World War II weren't as famous nor did they get the tonnage numbers sunk per boat of the preceding Type IX-B, given that they came later and after Allied ASW efforts began to significantly improve. That said they were better boats than their predecessors and wound up being produced in larger numbers than any other single class in the Type IX series, at 54 boats total. There were only a few major differences, although they were significant enough to make the Type IX-C a class in its own right. They were slightly lengthened yet again (almost a English foot more) which in turn allowed for slightly larger fuel tanks for carrying 43 tons more of fuel than before, which in turn added an extra 1,450 miles to the extreme limit of their operating range (13,450 nautical miles at a constant 10 knots surfaced). They featured a new conning tower design than among other things eliminated the control room periscope, leaving only the two tower scopes. Their minelaying capability was modified so that they could deploy either TMA or TMB tube-launched mines, with the ability to carry on board a total of either 44 TMA or 66 TMB mines, or any mix in between that would fit into the available onboard mine storage space. It should be noted that almost two-thirds of the class (U-162 to U-170 and U-505 to U-550) were never fitted for minelaying and were straight attack boats, with the additional storage space thus gained used for other things. Torpedo and gun armament and layout remained the same as the Type IX-B, and like them their light AA could and often did vary across individual boats, especially as many were uparmed in light AA later in the war to better deal with Allied air attacks. All but four were lost during World War II, and it should also be noted that the only German U-boat sunk in the Gulf of Mexico (U-166) was a Type IX-C. U-155 and U-516 survived to be scuttled by the British as part of Operation Deadlight (the mass post-war scuttling of surviving U-boats). U-511 was turned over to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in 1943 and was operated by them under the new name of Ro500 for the rest of the war, surviving until its end, turned over the victorious Americans, and scuttled by them along with two other seized IJN submarines in the Gulf of Maizuru on 30 April 1946. As for the fourth surviving Type IX-C U-boat, read on.

U-505 is the most famous surviving member of the class, having been successfully captured on the high seas on 4 June 1944 by an American ASW escort carrier task force under the command of Captain (later Rear Admiral) Daniel V. Gallery, who later wrote a postwar book about the capture appropriately titled U-505. The boat herself eventually wound up at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, where it was fully restored to her original operational wartime fighting trim thanks to parts donations from the original German manufacturers and in 1954 was set up as a permanent outdoor exhibit. She was moved indoors in 2004 given decades of damage from exposure to the elements, and two holes were cut into her hull at this time to allow visitors to enter and exit without having to go through her topside hatches. She was still open to the public as I write this (January 2022), and is not only the world's oldest known surviving U-boat that is not a (sunken) battle wreck, but also the only surviving intact Type IX-C in the world.

To find out more about the RKM's Type IX-C U-boat of World War II, follow the links below:

uboat.net/types/ixc.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_IX_…

skip down to Type IXC

naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/ger…

skip down to Type IXC: Better range (still)

modelingmadness.com/review/mis…

For more information on U-505 in particular:

www.history.navy.mil/content/h…

www.nationalww2museum.org/site…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_s…

www.msichicago.org/press/press…

www.history.navy.mil/browse-by…

This is a straight port with no changes by me. It depicts a typical generic early war Type IX-C U-boat. You will have to mod it yourself if you want a specific boat in the class and/or a particular mid or late war light AA uparmed version.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

You'll be hard put to find a free Type IX-C U-boat 3D model out there as I write this, or one on the various pay model sites. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's hard. I tried doing a off-the-cuff Internet search, but the only hits I kept getting were for pay models of the successor Type IX-C/40. That means that unless you can find someone who already has a Type IX-C 3D model and is feeling generous, either ripping the model yourself or modding Jed's free Type IX-B appropriately (mostly a conning tower swap) for Valve's Day of Defeat: Source (see my entry on the Type IX-B) are your two easiest options for getting a good 3D model of a Type IX-C. Alternately you can just use Jed's free Type IX-B model "as-is" to cover for the Type IX-C for those of you without 3D modeling skill, given their almost identical appearances in their early war forms, although the differences in their conning towers will give this away to more knowledgeable folks. Whatever works best for you.

For non-profit, non-commercial.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the stock model included with the video game Silent Hunter 3 (SH3) by Ubisoft, as tweaked for use with the fan-created Grey Wolves eXpansion v3 (GWX3). Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

The third class in the famed Type IX series of long range oceangoing U-boats (unterseebooten) operated by the Nazi German Navy or Reichkriegsmarine (RKM) during World War II weren't as famous nor did they get the tonnage numbers sunk per boat of the preceding Type IX-B, given that they came later and after Allied ASW efforts began to significantly improve. That said they were better boats than their predecessors and wound up being produced in larger numbers than any other single class in the Type IX series, at 54 boats total. There were only a few major differences, although they were significant enough to make the Type IX-C a class in its own right. They were slightly lengthened yet again (almost a English foot more) which in turn allowed for slightly larger fuel tanks for carrying 43 tons more of fuel than before, which in turn added an extra 1,450 miles to the extreme limit of their operating range (13,450 nautical miles at a constant 10 knots surfaced). They featured a new conning tower design than among other things eliminated the control room periscope, leaving only the two tower scopes. Their minelaying capability was modified so that they could deploy either TMA or TMB tube-launched mines, with the ability to carry on board a total of either 44 TMA or 66 TMB mines, or any mix in between that would fit into the available onboard mine storage space. It should be noted that almost two-thirds of the class (U-162 to U-170 and U-505 to U-550) were never fitted for minelaying and were straight attack boats, with the additional storage space thus gained used for other things. Torpedo and gun armament and layout remained the same as the Type IX-B, and like them their light AA could and often did vary across individual boats, especially as many were uparmed in light AA later in the war to better deal with Allied air attacks. All but four were lost during World War II, and it should also be noted that the only German U-boat sunk in the Gulf of Mexico (U-166) was a Type IX-C. U-155 and U-516 survived to be scuttled by the British as part of Operation Deadlight (the mass post-war scuttling of surviving U-boats). U-511 was turned over to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) in 1943 and was operated by them under the new name of Ro500 for the rest of the war, surviving until its end, turned over the victorious Americans, and scuttled by them along with two other seized IJN submarines in the Gulf of Maizuru on 30 April 1946. As for the fourth surviving Type IX-C U-boat, read on.

U-505 is the most famous surviving member of the class, having been successfully captured on the high seas on 4 June 1944 by an American ASW escort carrier task force under the command of Captain (later Rear Admiral) Daniel V. Gallery, who later wrote a postwar book about the capture appropriately titled U-505. The boat herself eventually wound up at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, where it was fully restored to her original operational wartime fighting trim thanks to parts donations from the original German manufacturers and in 1954 was set up as a permanent outdoor exhibit. She was moved indoors in 2004 given decades of damage from exposure to the elements, and two holes were cut into her hull at this time to allow visitors to enter and exit without having to go through her topside hatches. She was still open to the public as I write this (January 2022), and is not only the world's oldest known surviving U-boat that is not a (sunken) battle wreck, but also the only surviving intact Type IX-C in the world.

To find out more about the RKM's Type IX-C U-boat of World War II, follow the links below:

uboat.net/types/ixc.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_IX_…

skip down to Type IXC

naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/ger…

skip down to Type IXC: Better range (still)

modelingmadness.com/review/mis…

For more information on U-505 in particular:

www.history.navy.mil/content/h…

www.nationalww2museum.org/site…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_s…

www.msichicago.org/press/press…

www.history.navy.mil/browse-by…

This is a straight port with no changes by me. It depicts a typical generic early war Type IX-C U-boat. You will have to mod it yourself if you want a specific boat in the class and/or a particular mid or late war light AA uparmed version.

While I am no longer making my OBJ ports of Silent Hunter series models available for public download, you can get this yourself in one of two ways. You can extract it piecemeal from the game data using the free SKWAS/s3ditor model utility and rebuild it in your preferred 3D modeling software, or you can rip it directly from the game after installing any necessary mods or mod packs noted above using any good 3D model ripper (3D Ripper DX or NinjaRipper recommended).

You'll be hard put to find a free Type IX-C U-boat 3D model out there as I write this, or one on the various pay model sites. I'm not saying it's impossible, just that it's hard. I tried doing a off-the-cuff Internet search, but the only hits I kept getting were for pay models of the successor Type IX-C/40. That means that unless you can find someone who already has a Type IX-C 3D model and is feeling generous, either ripping the model yourself or modding Jed's free Type IX-B appropriately (mostly a conning tower swap) for Valve's Day of Defeat: Source (see my entry on the Type IX-B) are your two easiest options for getting a good 3D model of a Type IX-C. Alternately you can just use Jed's free Type IX-B model "as-is" to cover for the Type IX-C for those of you without 3D modeling skill, given their almost identical appearances in their early war forms, although the differences in their conning towers will give this away to more knowledgeable folks. Whatever works best for you.

For non-profit, non-commercial.