First Build 2010, First Ship Ever

never did that with a bismarck but did blowup a 1/720 scale model of the arizona with a powder bomb on the black river near were i lived at the time. left a 6' plus smoke ring drifting into the sky.

It's an ancient kit, but well worth building. In the UK I would wager that nearly every single build-up of this kit, mine included, ended up at the bottom of a local pond after the obligatory 'Sink the Bismark!' re-enactment using a BB gun. Alas, My airfix Hood survived for many years. Thinking about it all as an adult, well it says something about how the Bismark incident burned in the national psyche for decades.

looks good,looks like a nice clean build.no PE for me yet either.

That's a nice build for the amount of time you had to do it, complete with camouflage. And an old dog of a kit to boot. Good job.

That was a great start, and the kit dates back to around 1964 or so. You had the deck stacked against you.

Now that you have that Bismarck engagement in mind, you might get a kick out of the Airfix King George V or Prinz Eugen - both kits were produced much later in Airfix's run of ship models and are hugely improved over the Bismarck kit.  And as you build the second one, you will be able to compare it in your mind to the Bismarck (the ship, not the miserable model) that you have just finished. 

(btw, Airfix also made Hood, Suffolk, Cossack and Rodney kits that also figured in on that engagement, but they were also part of that "dawn of ship modeing" stage of Airfix, and don't have near the amount of nice-looking detail that KGV and Prinz Eugen have.)

Rick

Thanks elite, its the Bismarck. I've been looking at the dragon premium 700 scale bismarck to replace this ones loss from my stash/collection, its just a little smaller than I'd like but I dont really want her in 350.

very nice ship! im sure your wifes father is very happy. what ship is it?