Dan Banks wrote:
Very cool, keep up the good work. More questions, whose plans did you use, what period are you going to represent with your fine model?
PG plans are hard to come by, especially in 1/200, and whatever I got hold of had plenty inaccuracies.
So, I've had to draw up my own plans based on various information, mainly from the Prinz Eugen website and the card model "Schwerer Kreuzer Prinz Eugen" from CFM Verlag in Munich. It took me nearly 3 years of research before I had enough information to draw a proper side view and top view to begin the build.
My drawings are too large to post (and is still works in progress), but here is a section from the side view showing the catapult and funnel, just to give you an idea:
My hull plan is based on "Prinz Eugen - SMB bauplan" (W Seiss/Franz Mrva). A fellow modeller in the US was kind enough to email me 'Spantlinien' and 'Langelinien' from his drawing, which in turn I converted to scale 1/200.
The best overall plan I have seen so far is the one from Kagero by Waldemar Goralski in scale 1/350.
Detailed drawings and templates (armament, cranes, fittings, platforms, etc) are constructed 'on the go' as I progress
The model, when finished, will represent early 1945 at the time of handover in Copenhagen (there is a really good description of this period earlier in the thread [Jan 29, 2009] made by Olaf Held).