Long time no post, its been a bit busy around here. I would like to show you some pictures of my latest model. It took me a lot of time and it is not fully correct for the time depicted but what can you do. I got lazy and I did not take good pictures of the progress.
It is the SMS K�nig around the battle of Jutland. The kit is the ICM kit with the Flyhawk upgrade kit for it. The scale is 1/700. Some parts were 3D printed, for example the 15cm gun casemates and the torpedo net booms. I chose to 3D print them because I needed so many to look the same. It was painted using acrylic paints. The masts are made out of brass rods. The rigging is a mix of stretched sprue, metal wire from Modelkasten and elastic thread from Uschi vdR. As reference I used plans from Koop and Schmolke and some copies of the B. Scholz plans I found online. I also found some nice photographs online. The model also has some custom made photo-etch parts, like the torpedo net davits, bow crown, and hatches. The torpedo net is rolled up photo-etched grid, i think it looks OK. It was a very long process but I learned a lot about the ships of this time, and new techniques.
Comments and critique are very welcome!
