Olaf Held wrote:
Sean, are you referring to known photos? If so, as I don't have this book (my birthday is in early October, wink, wink), could you please direct me to them in other books or online sources? The 'boot spikes' are interesting, I only know them from early shots of the ship, never paid much attention to them in later appearances. I will have a look into them, just to clarify that we don't look at the remainings from the Baltic camouflage.
The shape of the foretop gallery was changed at least four times, this is not really new. Antonio knows it as well, together we went through quite a lot of photos, however, at the time his drawings were done, those details were not known entirely.
I'm not quite sure about the extra AA mounts on the quarterdeck, but will look into it.
Happy researching ~ Olaf!
I've spent a few hours searching on-line, and have had minimal success in finding the right shots. Most especially the color photo that proves the boot spikes are painted and not just discolorations. And unfortunately I don't yet have any other Scharnhorst books aside from this new Classic Warships book. Anyway, here's what I've found so far on the Cerberus fit:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/killerwurm ... 163424261/The Classic Warships book has this same shot, which appears to be the Scharnhorst underway during Cerberus, clearly illustrating the open admiral's bridge and the round foretop (note that the rangefinder is turned, revealing radar sets on the front and back - the square top, shown just two pages later in Classic Warships, seems to only have radar on the front, and it looks like a larger set. I haven't been able to find this shot on-line yet). Note also the blast bags are dark on A turret and light on B. C's bags were light as well, as seen in the fourth photo from the bottom on this page:
http://www.scharnhorst-class.dk/scharnh ... berus.html The starboard side boot spike is pretty clear in this shot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/killerwurm ... 163424261/Of course, that's early on when they were more obvious. So far, I'm coming up empty on those late-fit shots where you can make out the spikes. I may have found a few of the same ones as in the Classic Warships book, but in the online ones you just can't make them out; the printed ones are a bit sharper and have better contrast. Hey, that's part of why I buy these books - some pictures you just can't find on the internet, and a good-quality printed photo is still sharper than the pixels on a screen! Anyway, if I find anything more I'll pass it along.
- Sean F.
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So I only have those three. I will take your word for the funnel platform mount, I really cannot find a single good image of it. Like the turbine water intakes and the secondary boat cranes, that platform mount is on my list of things I would like to find out more about, along with all the fittings up around the platform. It is not an oft photographed area. I will make sure and put those images of the other type to good use. I hope to have time in the future to detail all these out a lot so I can use them as a real reference for a book or something. But that is a little way off.
). Classic Warship's Scharnhorst book is complete and available now, and when you get your copy, check out page 42 and then 49. He was also able to put one new camo picture on the last page, one I hadn't seen before. I think he mentioned he got it from a mutual acquaintance of ours, so you might have seen it before. I look forward to the debate that will inevitably cause. 
