Paper Ship: Bismarck, HMV, 1:250
Discussion
El stovey said:
Nice work dr, will It have swastikas on the deck?
Plus is it going to be built as it looks with the hull submerged or with the hull showing?
Ta. It’ll be a ‘waterline’ model to match the others, ie only the structure above the waterline.Plus is it going to be built as it looks with the hull submerged or with the hull showing?
Edited by El stovey on Tuesday 8th October 22:23
The swastikas - as is often the case on models - are a pain in the arse. I’ve ended up 3D printing a scaled version (much to the wife’s alarm
):
So I can align it with the deck circles, and clock it with the edges at the quadrant points:
Then draw the outline with a mechanical pencil, mask to the lines and airbrush it black. This was a test (it’s a mirror image by mistake):
Edited by dr_gn on Tuesday 8th October 23:33
dr_gn said:
The swastikas - as is often the case on models - are a pain in the arse. I’ve ended up 3D printing a scaled version (much to the wife’s alarm ):
I remember my wife opening a package full of different scale swastikas for model aircraft I’d ordered. I expect her reaction was similar. ):
Not much progress - all my modelling projects have got bogged down recently. HMV kindly sent me a plain deck .pdf, but I couldnt colour match the prints. There were also potential issues with fading. So with heavy heart, I made a start on airbrushing swastikas onto the plain circles, using the 3D printed template:
The foredeck swastika spans several raised parts, so is much more difficult to mask:
The foredeck swastika spans several raised parts, so is much more difficult to mask:
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Halmyre said:
I'm slightly baffled as to why the German Navy would paint what are effectively two huge target markers on their shiny new warship. 
Two ways of looking at it I suppose: during the final battle to sink the Bismarck, Swordfish aircraft from Ark Royal initially attacked HMS Sheffield by mistake (luckily all the torpedoes failed to detonate). So maybe giant RAF roundels on the decks would have prevented that? Then again if the Swordfish crew knew the Bismarck had swastikas on the deck, why did they attack Sheffield? Answer must be that they wouldn't have been in a position to clearly see the decks during their attack runs.4321go said:
Given the tons of bombs and shells lobbed I vain by both the Royal Navy and the RAF at the German capital ships during the course of the war, the idea that these insignia could ever be considered as targets is a little wide of the mark....... every pun intended!
I think he menat they marked the ship itself as a target, not that the actual circles were individual targets!Gassing Station | Scale Models | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff