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Wonderfull job on model. really metal is another thing..
congratulations Kiwi

Phil,
Your Bismark looks great. I will be looking forward to seeing the ship when you complete it.
Mark

The size!!!! she is one beautiful monster Philip fine job on the superstructure i bet shaping and cutting those metal plates is a rather tedious job.


Jose

Good.
Excellent model, congratulations, to seem real.
There is possibility to get the plans for this model?
There are some books which can get ideas to build this model?
Thank you for your attention.
Continuation of a good job.
Regards,
Artur Silva

Inspirational ! I doffs my cap.

Wow this is turning into some build.
love the brasswork
Any pictures of the tariler you use to transport such a beast?

Hello
re trailer
I am not at home at the moment but I will check to see if I have any photos.

It looks like a glider trailer. It has always been a boat trailer.
I purchased it on E-Bay and it had a 1/96 scale carrier as well as a few other boats in it.
I disposed of all the models.
It has softish suspension.
I have had the Bismarck in it many times.
It travels well.

Philip

ajos28 wrote:There is possibility to get the plans for this model?
There are some books which can get ideas to build this model?

Hi Artur
Yes! You can get plans for Bismarck.
Books, Well there quite a few. I have purchased a book for one photo. A lot of them are in either German or Polish. I purchase for the photos mainly. (A photo speaks at least a thousand words.)
There are a few in English.
The internet is also a good place for information.

Philip

How goes the work on your Bismark?

All
Progress has been a little slow.
I have been doing extra time offshore.
I have just returned from the show at Birchwood.
Very good and inspiring.

I have been consolidating the superstructure.
Some of it has been together for 3 years and was getting knocked around.
I have straightened and strengthened it considerably.

I have quite a lot of etch together now and it is awaiting assembly and I spent time today assembling some louvered vents for some of the major intakes on the ship.
The hull is now in the main finished.
The main focus at the moment is the forward superstructure.

Philip.

Hi Phil Good to see you at the Convention and to have a close look at that funnel cap , an awsome piece of model making for sure .
Dave Wooley

Now hear this, Now hear this, Now hear this, At the convention I was bribed with 2 chocolate chip cookies from Plils wife, to tell you all, that she did nearly all the black corking on the timber deck, how can some one have such a devoted wife and not give her the praise she deserves,

Hey Phillip.
any news on those 1/72 15inch guns? ide love to see some photos of those bad boys if you gotem

Dana

This is a Level of Craftsmanship that I can only hope to achieve in my life time, Great Job, Well done.

This exceptionally fine model build has sliped into the second page. We look forward to more updates as and when ?
Dave Wooley

Do you have any updated pictures. Just can't wait to see what your up to.

Yeah, me too.
This must be a giant!
I'll be following this one.

Greetings Josse

Hi ive been looking 4 a Remote control modle of the Bismark, reasons are because my family sereved aboard her and would like one of my own, and stubled apon this and was amased. This is 1 very important question, and people after this question plz dont Call me Nazi, are you going 2 paint the swastika on her bow/stern, because she wouldnt be the Bismark without them. Srry for all the people offended by this question i was just asking.

Hi All

Merry Christmas.
I have been down home in N.Z. for the last 2 months attending to personal business.
I have done quite a lot of work on the ship since my last posting. This is putting the superstructure together. Making superstructure parts, adding detail. Getting detail etched up ............. cranes,boxes,ladders,vents,intakes,scuppers .................. all those things needed to make up a ship.
Thanks for pulling it off the back page Dave!

The Swastika issue!
I will not be using it.
I feel it detracts from the beauty of the ship.
The ship may go to Dortmund one day .............. a definite no-no in Germany!
The crew onboard were mainly serving German Navy ............. not nazis.
My father is still alive .............. he is an X special ops/X craft type person and I would not like to insult him.

That is my first and last statement on this matter.

Regards
Philip

guest wrote: This is 1 very important question, and people after this question plz dont Call me Nazi, are you going 2 paint the swastika on her bow/stern, because she wouldnt be the Bismark without them.

I think the Bismarck wouldn't be the Bismarck with the Swastika as most of the time in her most famous (aka only) operation "Rhein�bung" the "Fliegerkennung" was painted over (on 22nd May).

Dirk