Calling all SMS König class fans

Ship Model Gallery · Post by **MartinJQuinn** » Sat Dec 08, 2007 10:57 pm

Very nice work!! Please keep the updates coming.

masch3 · Post by **masch3** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 5:09 am

@ Draze: True inspiration, what you are doing there!

Yevgeniy · Post by **Yevgeniy** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 11:25 am

Drazen,

Thanks for the answer. I should have guessed it myself - as usual the most brilliant ideas are the simplest.

Good luck.

Yevgeniy

Francisco P. de Nanclares · Sun Dec 09, 2007 4:56 pm

Impressive stuff, Drazen!. Wow!. Looking forward to seeing more of this upcoming marvel.

Cheers.
Pachi.

Laurent · Post by **Laurent** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:05 pm

Indeed , impressive stuff !

Regards ,

Laurent

Avery Boyer · Post by **Avery Boyer** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 6:09 pm

Absolutely fantastic work

Jefgte · Post by **Jefgte** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:08 am

Very nice model.
Congrats for the clean work.

Jef

masch3 · Post by **masch3** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:40 am

I just wanted to say that I edited my answer on colours on page 2.

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 6:43 pm

Drazen · Post by **Drazen** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:51 am

Hello again!

First, I want to thank you all for your kind words and comments.

@Ingura - thank you for your remark and photos, you are not nitpicking! These photos are indeed interesting, I don�t have them in references I�m using for my K�nig build. Will correct those torpedo doors, it�s not too late and does not require too much extra work.
Meanwhile, here are the pics from yesterday. The torpedo net booms are fabricated from 0.8 mm medical needles. I decided to discard the ICM�s because they are too short (see below), and make my own ones.
Boat davits are also glued in their positions. I drilled and shaped a hawsepipe for the stern anchor in the center rear of the hull, so it lines up properly with the molded hawsepipe in the aft deck. Very carefully I managed to drill an eyelet on the anchor for attaching the chain.
Nameplates were also added on upper hull sides.

Cheers!

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:02 pm

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:10 pm

Drazen · Post by **Drazen** » Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:58 pm

Nice and useful pics, thanks again. Although K�nig had no stern tube - one bow, two mounted on each side - that photo is particularly interesting.
She is going to be in her pre-Jutland fit, so no liferafts for this baby!

Nevertheless I am curious - what is the correct colour for liferafts on German warships, if not yellow?

ingura · Post by **ingura** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:04 am

Guido · Post by **Guido** » Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:13 am

Hi, Peter!
I wonder: Does that rule apply for the textile part of the float, too? ...or would that be canvass-colour?
TIA
Guido

Hanchang Kuo · Post by **Hanchang Kuo** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:21 pm

Quick question...Did they carry white circle air identification markings on turret tops at Jutland?

Thanks,

chuck · Post by **chuck** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:12 am

How did you make the brass eyebrows for the scuttles?

Drazen · Post by **Drazen** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:37 am

Hanchang Kuo wrote:Quick question...Did they carry white circle air identification markings on turret tops at Jutland?

Well, I don�t really know. There is no photographic evidence to confirm that. On the other hand, there is a photo of battlecruiser Seydlitz steaming home after the battle which clearly shows distinctive white circle painted on top of her forward 280 mm turret, so what bothers me is - can this be appliable for uppermost turrets forward and aft on ALL German capital ships during this battle, too...?

chuck wrote:How did you make the brass eyebrows for the scuttles?

I used horizontal bars from 1/700 railings.

They were surplus pieces; the rest of the railings I used to make funnel rings. They were cut to correct length and 1.5 mm drill was used to bend them to shape

Steve Jones · Post by **Steve Jones** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:27 pm

Hi yevgeniy,
if you want to really go to town on your dreadnoughts, try having some of the hatches on the skylights open (only in harbour of course!). they would have had a glass hatch underneath which could also be opened for fresh air.

regards

Steve

Ship Model Gallery · Post by **MartinJQuinn** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 4:40 pm

Drazen wrote:
chuck wrote:How did you make the brass eyebrows for the scuttles?
I used horizontal bars from 1/700 railings.

They were surplus pieces; the rest of the railings I used to make funnel rings. They were cut to correct length and 1.5 mm drill was used to bend them to shape

That's a brilliant idea!

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