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Re: Looking for WW1 German ship plans?

by sirmaumau » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:37 pm

hallo
Christian Schmidt Fachbuchhandlung seems to be a good choice,but the terrible price stopped me .the <Vom Original zum Modell >(bayern-klasse) from Graefe Verlag is rather disappointing,considering the partially omitted cross-section graph. :mad_1:

by Ludwig » Fri Dec 08, 2006 5:30 am

hallo , :wave_1:

I have the catalogue of Lothar Wischmeyer/Helmuth Meinhardt here with me , and there is NO plan available of SMS Seydlitz. As with VTH , be carefull some plans drawn are not all to accurate.

regards,

Ludwig

by JH » Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:03 am

Hi
If your looking for free plans there is a brilliant Website
http://www.dreadnoughtproject.org/

Hope it helped

JH

by IroncladNut » Wed Nov 29, 2006 1:48 pm

Thanks for the info guys :smallsmile:

by Talisker » Wed Nov 29, 2006 11:47 am

Hi,

here is an other german plan service:
VTH-Verlag

On page 2 is SMS Seydlitz :thumbs_up_1:

by MartinJQuinn » Tue Nov 28, 2006 9:40 am

Pacific Front Hobbies sells the following set of plans as well:

1/200 German Battleship Ostfriesland Plans by Miyukikai

by RickF » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:51 am

This site looks interesting too - if you don't know it already.

http://german-navy.tripod.com/sms_bc_seydlitz.htm

Rick

by Andy G » Tue Nov 28, 2006 7:46 am

1/72nd scale Seydlitz, eh?

...Bring it on!!! :eyebrows:

(Types Andy, fairly quietly, since he's STILL plating his 1/72nd Dreadnought.)

I think a gentleman called Lothar Wischmeyer is your man. He's drawn plans for much of the Imperial German Navy at 1:100th scale. He's not (apparently) on the internet, but his address is:

Fischerstr. 17
49661 Cloppenburg
Germany

(Address from a German model forum, correct as of July 06).

There are sketchy (but free) outlines for the Seydlitz available here. These seem to be drawn from the builders' originals and would, I think, stand a careful redraughting to the scale you want and produce a good hull.

I don't know what the quality of the Taubman plans are like, but it's just about the minimum scale I'd be happy with.

This work seems like a must-buy: Die Gro�en Kreuzer V. d. Tann, Moltke-Kl., Seydlitz, Derfflinger from this url, which seems to be 60 pages of technical info regarding how the ships were built. (If my German is accurate.)

Andy

by Talisker » Tue Nov 28, 2006 6:25 am

Hi,

you can order plans of german WW1 warships at
Christian Schmidt Fachbuchhandlung

:wave_1:

Looking for WW1 German ship plans?

by IroncladNut » Mon Nov 27, 2006 8:40 pm

Greetings,

I am looking for a source of very detailed plans for WW1 German Warships, particularly the battlecruisers, but I am also interested in the dreadnoughts and the last of the armored cruisers.

I am hoping to build a 1/72 scale RC model of the SMS Seydlitz ( one of my favorite ships :cool_1: ) but currently all I have is a IMO fairly lousy set of plans in something like 1/350ish scale.

I see Taubman has some new listings for WW1 German ships in 1/200 scale, can anybody comment on these? It seems like every time I think I found something new, it turns out that its the same old set of plans that are being sold by someone else or resized etc... I hate having to buy plans sight unseen :mad_1:

I really don't mind paying a decent amount of money on good plans if I can find them.

Thanks in advance

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