Ships of the German Flag has moved to the Group Build section

modelcrazy

If I had my druthers, I'd like to see the Tirpitz. I've never seen that camo scheme, just the spinter.

Doing some research I read she was in Faettenfjord at that time and the crew also apperently camouflaged her with trees. 

I would like the see the Flyhawk Sharny though. Shall I add the Tirpitz as well?

 

yep add the Tirpitz! Going to mull over this and watch for opinions. we've  got new carpet being installed early next week so I've got furniture to move and some final bits to add onto the Enterprise before I start another one.

...and i am gonna go look for that bit about the trees. I picked up German Camoflauge of ww2 on amazon last night. Of all things it was free with my kindle unlimited subscription. Never seen a reference book like this free on amazon! It's got the Schornhorst patterns in it to.

Anyone have a good reference for colors beyond the Vallejo set? It seems to be missing browns i think. Any thoughts on that?

Lifecolor makes set I believe. 

Be careful about the Sharny camo. It never did have splinter or light grey turret tops like are in some references. The spinter was a DD moured next to her and the light grey was from a picture that looks very much like she had light grey tops. There is some debate about that but most agree that they weren't. There's no record anyway. 

Don't know how accurate it is on color schemes of Scharnhorst and her sister, but I got one of squadrons books on the pair for my eventual 1/350 build.

As an aside, the 11" barbetts were designed so they could eventually upgrade to the 15" twin mounts (when available) from the 11" triples.  Gneisie had her triples removed in preparation for the swap but never completed when she was in for repairs/refit . Would be interesting to have seen that combination, about the same punch, and a little faster.

Would be an interesting "what if" to plant Bismarck turrets on a Scharnhorst.

That would be a neet mod GH. One could purchase some Bismarck/Tirpitz turrets from Model Monkey

This fits with my need to do something interesting with a pile of (fairly nasty) old Type 36A(MoB) class German destroyers.  These are sisters of Z31, who was ceded to France and renamed Marceau during her time in the French Navy in the 1950s.  Don't know yet which one I will use as a starting point.
And then there is the ancient German torpedo boat from Kobo Hiryu in the dawn of resin kits.  France used several of those post-war, too.  Will need to figure out which of those is appropriate.

Surface_Line,

It would be great to have you aboard. Just let me know what you want to do and I'll put it down.

OK.  I will be building the Skywave "Narvik destroyer" as the ex-Z-31 French contre-torpelleur Marceau (the French navy doesn't use any kind of prefix like USS or FN or such.  It's just Marceau.)

Thanks,
Rick

You got it Rick. Is that a 1/700?

BTW, I also moved the thread and roster to the GB section

I just now seen this thread on the group build and I like the rules and the time frame.  I would like to enter ICM Kronprinz 1/350 scale.  Along with RB model metal barrel set, White Ensign PE for the Kronig class of ships and Gold Medal Models PE for Kronig class of ships.  The W.E. PE is pretty lacking on details but the G.M.M PE offering is real intense, lots of detail. 

I should be able to start the build in September as soon as I clear the dry dock of another build.

Marcus

ikar01

Just how good are these ICM and Combrig kits?  I have noticed that some of hte kits mentioned are resin, shat about these?  So far I have builr only a couple resin iron clads, the Austrailian monitor Cereberus, and the the Reuben James which were not bad kits, although the James was kind of a strange looking little ship that looked like a last minute conversion from some other class of ship.

 

Marcus

Model Crazy- Consider modifying the title of this thread to steer folks to GB.

Bill

Thank you Surface_Line. I put you down over in the Group Build section.

Thanks Bill. I'll do that.