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PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2016 1:14 pm 
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Ref is made to my 1:00 model of Z11, Bernd von Arnim at:
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I wanted to build a scenario of the invasion of Narvik on April 9th 1940. No such scenario has been built before – to my knowledge that is…
The scenario shall depict the moment the German destroyers reaches the Post-pier and start disembarking their troops.

And the first two ships to do so were Z2 Georg Thiele and Z11 von Arnim. As both these ships are of the 1934/1934A-class, I want to make a little change to the scenario to show both types of destroyers: Type 1934 and 1936. The ship chosen for type 1936 is Z21 Wilhelm Heidkamp, the command ship carrying both the flotilla commander as well as the general in charge of the whole invasion group, Maj Gen Dietl of the Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops from Germany and Austria). This ship also landed its troops at the same pier, although a litte later in the morning.

During a visit to Narvik two years ago, I took pictures of the pier as it looks today. The pier itself is rebuilt, but not much changed. The buildings that were there in 1940 were destroyed (and the pier severly damaged by a torpedo hit), so I had to use photos from 1940 to construct the buildings.


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File comment: The Post Pier with two German destroyers. Photo taken after the first naval battle April 10th or between April 10th and April 13th (Second naval battle)
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File comment: Same time: Photo taken from German aircraft showing the Pier with its buildings
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File comment: The pier after the naval battles - a German Dornier Sea-plane in the foreground. Note the burnt buildings and torpedo hit in the pier
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File comment: Some of the Iron Ore export area in the background: One of the main reasons for the German attack on Norway.
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 31, 2016 7:38 am 
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First out is the destroyer Z11 Bernd von Arnim. This ship, a type 1934A does not exist in 1:350 as a plastic kit.
You can buy a 1:350 resin kit of a similar ship from Iron Shipwright, and so I did.
I have built this kit once before http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... 13-350-sg/ and as you will see from the pictures: This is an old kit and not up to today’s standards, so lots of work is to be expected to build a good-looking model! Christmas time is well suited for this!

So almost every detail had to be scraped away to be substituted by PE later on.
The hull also had to be cut to waterline to fit into the scenario.
If you ever will do something similar to a resin model – be sure to wear a protection mask. Resin dust id some to the last tings you want to inhale into your lungs!!!!


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File comment: I was lucky to have lots of drawings etc from my previous build of a type 1934a: Z13 Bernd von Arnim in 1:100 scale
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File comment: Hull after cutting to waterline and removing resin details. Also note some thin plasicard glued on to make a smooth surface. Thin layer of Mr Resin surfacer/primer
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As said: The resin parts are not very accurate, so I decided to use PE wherever I could.
The bridge area is totally wrong (upper superstructure in one structure – should be two) and needs reshaping and the same goes for the mid-ship superstructure.

This is like a labour of love: There are so many accurate new kits with much more detailed parts around that you have to be somewhat crazy or at least dedicated to carry you a job like this… :thinking:


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File comment: PE-parts in place- mainly old WEM-stuff from my parts bin.
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From here, the shipbuilding is straight forward. I have built all classes ofGerman destroyers in the past:

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html

so the challenge here is do paint and weather the ship so it looks like it has been in rough Northern waters and in combat with the Norwegian defence ship “Norge”.
Hence, I applied some gloss paint to make hull and decks look wet (will appear better on later photos). Snowstorms during the morning covered the decks as it gradually turned into shush and water in temperatures around 0 degrees C.
I used a bottle made for making snow on models, but you may also make the mixture yourself (examples in the Internett/youtube).

Streaks of rust and salt were carefully applied to the model. Again, I used special products, this time from AK’s naval series.
As the ship came directly from a German port and the Kriegsmarine maintained their ships to a high standard this early in the war, I was careful not to overdo the weathering. After all, I’m building an operational ship – not a wreck!

Guns and TT (mainly from a Trumperer set) were swung out in the direction of where the Norwegian ship was engaged, and the areas around the guns were I positioned empty cases and weapons equipment. A little soot around the top of the funnels looks nice too!

So far I did not position sailors, soldiers or any army equipment.

Swasticas on the fore- and after decks + yellow top of gun houses were used April 9th, so I applied that (yellow was changed to red from April 10th!).
Masts, rigging and minor equipment built from scratch using parts bin, plastic sheets and brass tubing.


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Brilliant work! I love it. I find the rigging especially impressive.

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Starting point
Next ship to be built is the Z21, Wilhelm Heidkamp, command ship of the flotilla.
Now, Z21 is a type 1936 Zerstörer, but as there is no decent model (my opinion) of a 1:350 type 1936 around, I decided to build one out of a Trumpeter kit of a type 1936B destroyer.
Their model of Z43 is suitable: This type of ships went back to the 127mm main guns – 5 in all, and are in most respects quite similar to the earlier type 1936. Most important is that this kit depicts correctly sized portholes -20 cm diameter is correct, not close to 50 cm as in two other models currently offered!!!
The following changes have to be made to rebuild the Z43/1936B to the Z21/1936:
• The model is too long. This was done to make the ship easier to manoeuvre. A longer and somewhat pointed stern was constructed, as were a double set of rudders. Well, cut away 10mm of the stern, make it semi-rounded and use one somewhat larger rudder in place of the doubles.
• The Artillery Platforms have rounded and a little different shapes. I decided to make new ones from styrene in all three positions. Also, the searchlight platborm rear of the rear funnel has to be reworked (picture).
• Boat cranes are present on both SB and BB side in a type 1936, however in a 1936B these were substituted by “normal” davits. So either you do as me, use part from the parts bin, or construct you own. A had to make one myself (picture). Not too difficult as you’ll find pictures in books/internet to help you out.
• Radar was not present in Z21 in 1940, neither was tripod mast, a forward positioned rear mast, increased AA-guns etc, etc, but all of this is easily fixed. Drawing and pictures available in the Internet!
• Forward part of the anti-magnetic cable has to be scraped of and repositioned higher up.

If you do not want to go through with all these changes – buy a 1:350 from the two other manufacturers around, and change all portholes – which is probably more difficult to make straight and accurate. Or simply live with the LARGE portholes… And you still have to correct some other inaccuracies in those models too.

Finally, the hull has to be cut to waterline. In this case, like the other destroyer in the diorama, to the lower edge of the “line”/boot topping, as the German destroyers had spent almost all of their fuel at this stage and therefore were riding high in the water.

A final, nice touch is to trim down the thickness of all bullwarks!


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File comment: Drawing of Z20, Karl Galster, sister ship of Z21 from same wharf.
From Internet. (Never mind the red circle).

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Superb as always!

And thanks for the historical and present day photos for context.

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Thank you for nice comments, ModelMonkey!

Well, here comes furter details for those interested in Kriegsmarine destroyers:

Forward smokestack is somewhat different in a type 36, so a lot of external piping had to be made. White plastic mainly and some stretched sprue. The layout of these pipes are different from class to class and even within the class, pending on what shipyard built the actual ship.
Duct for HF-antenna (square) is made from 1,5mm plastic ducts.
The pipes may look a little crude, but they are pretty right compared to the originals.
Also, smokestacks are further detailed as are ships boats, paravanes and AA-guns.

Supports for the bridge wings are not well depicted in the kit, so they had to be scratch-built.
Along the poles and support you will notice thinner “lines”. These are water drainage to drain water from the upper levels of the bridge.

The original photo shows the sister ship Z20, Karl Galster. Here you can notice the different lay-out of supports and platforms quite clearly (drawing of Z21).
What it also shows (for the observant viewer), are different platforms for the rangefinder/night sight units compared to Z21. In Z20, night sight is forward of the rangefinder. Only Z21 Heidkamp and Z22 Anton Schmitt had this layout as shown in my model, while Z20 Galster had an earlier layout.
Karl Galster was, by the way, the ONLY type 1936 to survive Narvik! (1 out of a total of 6 in the class). After the war, which it survived) it was transferred to Soviet and served in their navy for many years.


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just one word .......superb :thumbs_up_1:
You are very talented ...The assembly is neat and precise
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Hello Friends!
It has been a long time since I wrote about this project, and to those of you that may wonder: it was finished a long time ago.
I have absolutely not given up – I have also completed a 1:200 Bismarck that I will show on this forum! And a Hood is 30% on its way.

But- since I have run out of Kriegsmarine vessels to build (I have no intention to build non-built aircraft carriers, - but that’s me), I have spent time building aircraft models. Mainly 1:48 and mainly German aircraft.
It all started with me wanting to learn how to use different airbrushing techniques. And I have learned a lot. And the results from different shows are promising with a lot of nice prices.
So- why am I writing about this?....
Well, first and foremost because I have discovered all the different ways of utilizing my airbrush. Painting becomes so much more interesting and the result so much more authentic.
I know that many of you out there probably know this much better that me, but most model ship-builders don’t.
Try it – you’ll like it! It takes time and patience, but it’s worth it.
So I will use it for future projects, but mind you, at least this model-builder would like to point out that weathering and shadow-painting etc. should (and this is my own opinion only) be done carefully and not overdone (Spanish School?).

Future projects? The new 1:350 Schleswig Holstein from Trumpeter, of course. Finally anouther Kriegsmarine projcect! (I am still hoping for a new 1:350 Scheer and a Lützow, and hopefully better made than their Blücher...).
I am going to Telford this year and hope to pick up my Schleswig there!

So, what about the Narvik scenario: Well, here we go:
The second and last destroyer, the Z21, was finished in the same manner as the first one.
Weathering, snow and slush on deck, salt stripes, sailors, boxes etc.
Masts were built using mainly brass rods.
The result was rigged using stretched sprue and spayed with a matt varnish. Wet areas of the decks and spots on the sides were then given strokes of clear varnish.


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File comment: Slush, dirt and empty cases on deck. Saltspray and dirt on hull
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File comment: Commodore and Captain on bridge.
Note the ice on the deck/windows of the ships boat.

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File comment: Commodore and Captain on bridge.
Note the standing rigging of somewhat thicker sprue to support the main mast.

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The base plate is made from oak wood painted in a dark brown varnish with a cut-out for a fibreboard plate in the middle, positioned a little mm or two below the top of the frame.

The footprint of the pier as well as of each ship- which are finished in waterline style- are the positioned onto the plate. Also, dugouts are made for ships boats as they are not cut to waterline before the plate is covered with filler (fine type for fibre plating). A careful shaping is made to the surface to make it look like calm, icy water when later painted.
The pier itself is underpinned by pieces of wood and the top plate cut from .5 mm styrene.

The styrene is them airbrushed with different darker colours before a top-coat of concrete consisting of several shades finishes this job.
Pieces of wood of about 1x1 mm is then glued to the outer lining of the pier. The pier was faired new in 1940, so a dark black/brown is chosen instead of grey.


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The pier is nearly finished with solid wood surrounding quite similar to the real thing (.8 x .8 mm wood stripes).
Two hoses on the pier today were built after the war as the two original houses were totally destroyed in the fighting as can be seen in a previous photo.
Houses were constructed from wooden blocks covered in 0.2 mm styrene (concrete) and wooden deck from other projects. Windows were printed white sheets covered with clear paint.
Gutters are stretched sprue and roof is sandpaper. Snow made mainly from plaster, and lamps on the building from stretched sprue and white glue.
The sign “Statens Mellager” means “Government Flour Storage”.
It feels kind of nice to scratch-build such constructions, as it makes up one of a kind!

Water close to the pier now has to be painted as the area will be inaccessible once the destroyers are in place.
An old resin GMC has to do service as a requisitioned civil truck, and the shipping sacks and other items are made from 2K and stretched sprue.


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Hope to see some of you in Telford. Me and two friends are leaving tomorrow morning for a museum tour before we go to the fair.
See you! :thumbs_up_1:

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Wow - impressive work. Can't wait to see what this looks like when it's finished.

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Thanks Martin! :wave_1:

A lot of sailors (L’Arsenal) are prepared and put into position. As can be seen from the original photos, a lot of activity is taking place as the destroyers are unloaded by the sailors, and the Gebirgsjäger prepares to march into the town.

The General (Dietl) and a staff officer with a map can be seen to the right in the picture. Two soldiers have captured a taxi that was later used by Dietl to transport himself into Narvik were the Norwegian commander capitulated to him.

The two destroyers and the ships boats are now put in place. Filler is formed along the ships sides, and tape is used to assure that no filler/plaster gets onto the destroyers’ sides.
Next is paint and details to the scenario.


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File comment: Can you spot the propaganda guy at work?
Four smiling sailors are giving thumbs up to the camara-man. So far - so good!

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It looks fantastic!

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Thanks Marco! :wave_1:
I don't know whether it's fantastic, but I think it is a kind of fun to make a scenario like this out of common materials without having to buy too much expensive stuff to make it look realistic.

Here is one more picture taken after the tape is removed and plaster (it's actually common wall-putty for fibreboard/plaster-wall plates) has been filled around the hulls.
Note that the "water" between the hulls and the pier is now painted (ordinary water colors from a typical kids aquarelle color set) and treated with 6-7 layers of floor wax to make an illusion of depth (I happened to have a bottle of Future, but any type of semi gloss/gloss water based wax will do).

Also note that the two ships-boats in the scenario has not been positioned yet.


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Finished – more or less!
Hopefully the scenario is not too far off.
One of the challenges was to decide upon how much snow to put on the decks and the pier.
A heavy snowfall of wet snow occurred during the early hours og April 9th, but as the weather got warmer, snow started to melt away leaving shallow ponds of water and melting snow here and there. Original photos show different levels of snow as the day went by.

I have tried to include some interesting details such as Captain and Commodore on bridge and General and Staff Officer in discussion on the pier as two guards have captured a taxi for the Generals use. The head party came ashore early with a ships boat from Z21.
On the pier the unloading of Z11 goes on as the destroyers prepare to get out of the narrow fjord ASAP to avoid being trapped and sunk (which they were!).
Cleaning up after the battle with the Norwegian coastal defence ship have just started on the decks of Z11 as Z21 is mooring to the pier.
In the middle of the pier can a few sailors be seen about to be photographed for the Signal magazine (German armed forces propaganda magazine): The invasion has been according to plan so far, and the Austrian Gebirgsjäger seem happy to get off the ships after being seasick for more than 24 hours in storm along the Norwegian coast.


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