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PostPosted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 8:27 am 
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Hello Pascalemod,

well I nearly missed the armour belt but Dan Banks fortunately directed my attention towards it.
The armour of Graf Spee is more or less well represented on the Trrumpeter kit:
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But on the Scheer it was higher reaching the top of the lower row of scuttles - strangely enogh those openings are actually piercing the upper part of the belt:
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So my plan is to sand off the original belt, replace it with plastic sheet and re-drill the scuttles, well it will be a long job to do...


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totally_random_man wrote:
Hello Pascalemod,

well I nearly missed the armour belt but Dan Banks fortunately directed my attention towards it.
The armour of Graf Spee is more or less well represented on the Trrumpeter kit:
Attachment:
Graf_Spee_panzer.jpg

Attachment:
IMG_8004.JPG


But on the Scheer it was higher reaching the top of the lower row of scuttles - strangely enogh those openings are actually piercing the upper part of the belt:
Attachment:
IMG_8003.JPG

Attachment:
IMG_8002.JPG


So my plan is to sand off the original belt, replace it with plastic sheet and re-drill the scuttles, well it will be a long job to do...


Now I follow. It looks less pronounced though? But also, how would you manage to get the bevel edge so well?! I find that is the biggest challenge. Im a bit off put now building Scheer by this inaccuracy, but this is modeling, just a good challenge! :)

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 10:29 am 
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after a brief pause Scheer is back again :-)
the funnel is taking shape, I love the handrails but soon there will be no place left to handle the whole thing...


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2022 9:53 pm 
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Hard to believe that they would pierce the main belt with scuttles. Perhaps this is a thin upper belt to prevent riddling by splinters?


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Fliger747 wrote:
Hard to believe that they would pierce the main belt with scuttles. Perhaps this is a thin upper belt to prevent riddling by splinters?


Checking reference material - M.J.Whitley: German capital ships of WW2 and Koop-Schmolke: Pocket battleships of the Deutschland class - did nothing to clarify this issue. There was no data on the height of the belt in the respective ships and the detalis presented in the two books are somewhat inconsistent.


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Please continue. Admiral Scheer really got a full nosejob. lutzow on the other hand even retained her third bow anchor "tube" until the end. Maybe welded shut but it was there.


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