As I`m keen to invest in Trumpeters taking of the nifty electro submarine type XXIII, I was wondering about the true colour of the ID band on the conning tower often depicted as white on many/most models.
This, because I came upon a German site were a guy seemingly quite knowing about his subject claimed that the ID band (if applied at all) were usually wellow not white. I understood the he claimed that the white was reserved for the types operating in the Northsea only. Well, even though there only were 6 uboats that managed to get any operational time, it would still be nice to know which colour might be the most common option (I know, how to tell a white band from a yellow one on a BW-photo.

Glad for any input on this matter.

Henry

I've built two of these so far (my favorite type U-Boat) and on the original 1/72nd scale Special Navy the band is white.On the 1/44 scale one from Trumpeteer (there are two and I don't think they are different at all except for boxing)I did not paint a band at all.

From reading some books, my understanding, and i could be wrong, is that if they had a strip of white they were actually training boats.

That's what I read, and I'm sticking to it....

Not a 23 but....