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1/200th Bismarck out now

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1/200th Bismarck out now
Posted by lolok on Monday, February 19, 2007 12:55 PM

Wow!! [wow] Just released in Poland is the new partwork magazine from hachette/Amati this time building the Bismarck. 4 and half feet of German naval engineering,8 inches wide.

       Bought the first part which has the centre keel as a start and only 139 other parts to go.It finishes some time 2009 but it should look the business.You get motors if you want it on the water as well.

      If your german is better than mine you can get some more pics and details from.....

       www.die-bismarck-bauen.de

          They already have a building forum going in a model site over there.It has been on sale there since last September..

         I don't know if it will reach blighty or the States but it looks the part and is multi-media like their last Titanic...Wood/metal/resin/plastic and P/E.....

            Kind of leaves the new Revell offering standing,apart from price of course....

         It would look good beside your 1/200th Yamato for comparison.

Jim Ryan Ex-Pat Limey in warsaw.Poland. " MENE,MENE,TEKEL U PHARSIN"
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Posted by CODY614 on Monday, February 19, 2007 1:21 PM

Well ya peaked my interest!

http://www.bismarck-modellbau.de/ 

Do the "Babelfish Conversion'.... 

 Jeff

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Posted by alumni72 on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:18 PM

You mean Babelfish?

At your Indienstnahme 1940 those applied for Bismarck as the most elegant, most dangerous and technologically most progressive battle ship of the world.

This buoyant Bismarck model after original structural drawings on a scale 1:200 has the renomierte model construction-threw AMATI reconstructed and realized a fascinating and impressing detail wealth. They have to equip and via radio telecontrol on large travel send even the possibility your Bismarck with an engine.

Missing expenditures of your collection of BISMARCK can order additionally you directly with the news agent.

I'd opt for a friend - or even better, a board member - who speaks German.

Babelfish embarrassed me in the past when I relied on it for an accurate translation when I tried to impress German colleagues with a 'native language' email.  Hoo boy - never gonna do that again!

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:21 AM
Its out in the UK as well, might be tempted.
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Posted by David Harris on Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:55 PM

140 parts at £4.99 a part or £700 in total. Ouch & rather to rich for my taste. Besides, where on earth would I put the thing?

Think that I will stick with the Tamiya 1/350th one.

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Posted by Archangel Shooter on Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:56 PM

The photographs of the kit look awesome but a little rich for my blood too. Today I just received from Squadron, all 3 WEM's detail photo-etch sets for the 1/350th Bismark and they look beautiful, these should really spruce up the model. But first I have a couple of subs to build.

Scott

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Posted by lolok on Friday, February 23, 2007 5:03 AM

Seems to be around the same price everywhere.

  If thats a bit steep just wait for the kit to come out from AMATI. They did it with the Titanic and half the price of the partworks.

        None of the superfluous magazine fluff I suppose.Plus the usual markups by all the parties involved.

      

The
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Posted by lolok on Friday, February 23, 2007 5:05 AM

Seems to be around the same price everywhere.

  If thats a bit steep just wait for the kit to come out from AMATI. They did it with the Titanic and half the price of the partworks.

        None of the superfluous magazine fluff I suppose.Plus the usual markups by all the parties involved.

          The TV spots do show an awesome finished product though.She was a big piece of steel,thinking back to my 1/200th Yamato.

Jim Ryan Ex-Pat Limey in warsaw.Poland. " MENE,MENE,TEKEL U PHARSIN"
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Posted by lolok on Friday, February 23, 2007 5:08 AM
 why did site duplicate reply 3 times?????????
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Posted by Archangel Shooter on Monday, March 5, 2007 11:58 PM

Question? Confused [%-)] You mentioned buying the first part i.e. the center keel, is this model being sold in seperate sections/kits?

 

Scott

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Posted by lolok on Tuesday, March 6, 2007 4:03 AM
 Yes.It is sold in weekly parts for 140 weeks.Finishes sometime early 2009! It is a European thing.They call them part-works and allow you to collect or build cars/soldiers/mini-clocks/police-cars of the world/various ships from the Bounty to now the Bismark..The plans and parts are manufactured by AMATI the Italian wood ship company....
Jim Ryan Ex-Pat Limey in warsaw.Poland. " MENE,MENE,TEKEL U PHARSIN"
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Posted by DanCooper on Friday, March 9, 2007 8:07 AM

Yup, that's it, I'm currently "collecting" the Amerigo Vespucci (actually sneaking the magazine+part in, every week Wink [;)] ). Only at part 5 since this morning, I know it's a lot more expensive than buying the kit, but paying 7 euro a week doesn't hurt as much as paying 350 euro at once in the shop, besides, it's way easier to smuggle a magazine to my secret workshop on the attick than a 3 or 4 foot long box. And ofcourse, I didn't subscribe to it, so if I see in at the newspapershop* that the part(s) of the week is something easily obtained in a modelshop (like anchors, chain, round wood etc...) I can skipt that week and save 7 euros on it.

*Yes these "kits" are sold in newspapershops and NOT in modelshops.

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Posted by Mr.Jingles on Sunday, March 11, 2007 6:08 PM

Hi,

        Just joined the forum.  I have subscribed to the Build the Bismarck weekly partworks.  I completed the Titanic in the same way.  This way may be more expensive, but I find that when I do a model this way, I have continuity with the building of it.  I used to build Rc models years ago, I may be tempted to do that with the Bismarck.

Martin

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Posted by DanCooper on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8:50 PM

Welcome to the fori, Mr Jingles Sign - Welcome [#welcome]

 

BTW, is your username in any way linked to a cute little piglet, found in Stormwind ? 

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Posted by Mr.Jingles on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 10:00 AM

Hi,

       No, my username is took from the pet mouse of the same name in the film The Green Mile.

Martin

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