Goal: Entire Kriegsmarine in 1:400

Including the three completed already, Ive procured a total of 13 total kits to put together:

*Gneisenau

*Unterseeboot VII C 31

*Zerstorer Z-32

6 Schnellboots

2 Torpedoboats

1 Minesweeper

Prinz Eugen

Kits I plan to procure:

Bismarck

Tirpitz

Scharnhost

Admiral Hipper

Graf von Spee

several more Zerstorers

several of the Light Cruizers

maybe the Graf Zepplin (a planned aircraft carrier that Germany scrapped when the war turned against them)

I fully expect this to take a couple years of modelling and I think I might build a second Gneisenau with the skills I've learned after building all these boats.

The second stage is to fit the Capital ships with lights shining out the portholes.

The third stage will be taking the ships and placing them in interconnectable diaramas displaying them at sea.

I have found sources for all the models at the 1/400 scale but the hardest one to find will be the Admiral Hipper since Heller no longer produces it and the Prinz Eugen.

Related models that I want to build include the Swordfish biplane responsible for the rudder damage that lead to the sinking of the Bismarck.

So in totally a fleet of 25+ depending on how many variants of the Zerstorers and the Unterseeboots I decide to build.

there is at least 3 versions of type 36, 36a, 36a mob & 36b destroyers: flagship version, 4-15cm(4x1) version, 5-15cm(3x1 &1x2) version.

the only prob with 400th scale is aftermarket parts  p/e and resin conversion parts are very limited

Actually, WEM produces exquisite p/e sets for the Heller 1/400 range. Also, I hate to nit-pick, but the funnel cap on the aft funnel is on backwards. Most of us have done similar gaffs.

Bill