IJN or modern japanese periscope view picture needed

[keltos01]

Hi !
Well I'm a modder et Subsim.com and am currently making japanese submarines.

I have already a few models up and running (Jyunsen B, Jyunsen 1M, Type AM...) but I wanna change the most used view : the periscope view.

I searched the web but all submarine periscope views I found were of US fleetboats apparently.

I have attached four pictures :



The first one I found on the web on a page where it said it was from I-400 periscope.(http://www.webenet.net/~ftoon/memory/japsub.html)

the second one, showing a blurry sunset, is from the 1943 IJN movie Gochin and was taken through I-10's periscope. Unfortunately it doesn't show the reticle, which I need.

the third one is from the book I-400 but shows only a simple cross.

The last one is from a fleetboat, USS Thresher (SS-200).

can anyone help ? I know that IJN periscopes were shipped to the US in 1945 for study at the ordnance department.

I need a picture not unlike the first one but taken through a real japanese periscope, from an IJN one would be best, but a modern one would suffice.

keltos

 

[keltos01]

Periscope view 2 :

As the view moves with the periscope, and the ship - a DD ? - comes into view, I'd say the graduations are genuine, they are on the scope.

so this really could be what at least one type of japanese scope looked like ?

the graduations on the scope allow the taking of measurements on the ships's masts thus the range.

Since all the views here are genuine instruments, why wouldn't the periscope be ?


video of L class submarine in training 1941 :

periscope, gauges etc...


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3mSiHiR5gM"]YouTube - periscope L type 1941[/ame]


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