trumpeter 1/200 bismarck

cheers thuntboss , glad to have you aboard . 

painted the radar screens , used plumbers thread tape , to mask of the screens . no stickiness .

Micro Crystal Clear is good;

 I am unaware of costs there, It's been many years since I tread the fine soil of your land.

the forward superstructure is close to finished , still got railings to do , some painting weathering , etc .

absolutely , stuffed up this railing , so I got some 1/350 , didn't turn out too bad .

bit of a quick look at what the score is so far .

Definately coming along for sure and looks great!

cheers thuntboss , been working on the main guns , little bit more still to do . the blast bags were a nightmare . took nearly 2 hours of filing to get the barrels through .

Wow what a project.  Looks awsome - I envy your PE skills

thankyou keavdog , got the 150mm & 105 mm guns almost done .

the planes only need paint , any suggestions on the colour green please .

Most likely the standard RLM 72/72 splinter pattern on upper surfaces and RLM 65 undersides.

thankyou GM

Theres a pretty funny video of an Arado trying to keep up with a ship that's underway and hook itself up. At one point it hits a big wave head on and the engine falls off.

If you haven't read the book by the highest ranking surviving officer, you should.

Among a lot of fascinating details, he tells of a plan to put the ships logs and other documents into one of the float planes and set it adrift for later collection by a U boat, which never happened.

Bill

that sounds very interesting GM , don't suppose you know the name of the book ?

started on the boats , they are that fragile , the airbrush could damsge them .

Hi;

    Your skills in P.E. and just building in general are Eye Candy for me. Keep it Up!

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/383640.Battleship_Bismarck#:~:text=Burkard%20Baron%20von%20Mullenheim%2DRechberg,went%20down%20with%20his%20ship.

I know it’s easy to throw superlatives around, but seriously, this is epic!   

thankyou TB , coming from you means a lot .

cheers GM , got a free sample on kindle , about 20 pages , very interesting read . he didn't like hitler at all .

knox , thankyou for the nice words mate . unfortunately 1 of the frames disintergrated , trying to jerry rig something up , out of unused PE from other sets .

thats the boats done , not looking forward to painting though , the boat 2nd from the left , the framework just disintergrated , found a fret from the arizona 1/350 , was something like it , you shouldn't see the difference from any sort of distance .

put what i had together for a look , getting there .

Steve that's going to be a beautiful display piece!

Hey Steve, top notch work. I love what you have done on this.

hey steve , nice to know your still looking in , mate .

cheers mongoose , don't know what I'm going to do with it though . I live in a cottage style house .

painted the planes , now for the boats .

forgot this little bloke , didn't worry about decals here , as the back end will be in the hanger .

I would so love to see this in person.

my main hassel now knox , is when I ordered the PE for it , it all arrived except the main sheet of railing , it took 2 months for pontos to send the replacement parts , jan 2nd , still waiting . it was ordered through BNa model world . as I said still waiting .

I've had to end up using the generic kit supplied railing , 4 months is long enough to wait in anyone's language , I'll never buy pontos again .

this is where I am up too .

still got stuff to do , boats , weathering etc . the rails are a bit wobbly , but I'm getting better .

Hey Steve, sorry to hear about your order problems. Frustrating to wait that long.

Nice work Sir. I like it. 

cheers steve, not much I can do about it though , 

got a bit more detail done , all the railings are on , adding the boats and planes . the plane ramps have to be painted .

all guns , masts , boats are on .

dum dum me forgot to add the access stairs

these still need the rails mended

Look at that beast. It looks awesome. Nice work Steve.

If you weren't an ace at photo ask before you sure are now. This is looking really great. How close are you to coming down the homestretch with it?