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Just a short update. I am still on it and I am plotting alomg! Summer is always a slow time.

HI Dietrich
the first picture is really impressive it was not good to be in his line of sight
nice job
cheers
Nicolas

Good work Dietrich!

Still plotting along. I am really getting there. "He" takes time and patience but rewards you with extremely good looks (from a pure engineering poitn of view!)

That is some very fine work.

Looking very nice!. Germany really was on the top of the game when it came to weapons of WWII.. in ALL theathers.

Dietrich,

Just read through your log. Thanks for taking the time to post, so we could enjoy seeing your work. Looking forward to further updates. Like your attitude.

Happy modeling,
Len

Short update where I am right now. I think I might need another two months or so.... And I am still haveing a lot of fun!

Holy tamale, it's a Bismarck christmas tree!

hello Dietrich

your " another Bismarck " seems to be really very beautiful
cheers
Nicolas

Awesome .Kevin

Really looking great Dietrich!

Some more pictures. Only some guns, some details and some slight weathering left to do for me. And then on to the USS Missouri!

Dietrich

hi Dietrich nice build can you show it in Germany with the flag on the bow Bill.....

I could not show it in Germany with the flag on bow and stern because the political opinion is that if somebody sees it, he or she turns immediately into a Nazi. Fortunately this medically unsupported theory has no meaning outside of Germany - I live in the United States and there it is no problem at all. As a writer of books about orders and medals of the Third Reich and a historian I learned that denying or covering up history has no effect at all other than making the "cover uppers" look very stupid, especially in the age of the Internet! :)

Dietrich

hi
nice build
what supports the cat when its extended for flight ops ??
gary r

Hi Gary,

thanks for the nice words.

Nothing is supporting the extended catapult, just as it was the case with the original.

best regards,

Dietrich

Hi Dietrich,

great model but for a small error, I would like to point you: The color of the underwater hull of the boats was charcoal black and not red!

Cheers!
Dirk

Hi Dirk,

Thanks! Yes, I found that out later also (was fooled by Kagero and later saw the 1:100 model here: http://www.kbismarck.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1768) and was thinking about changing it. But then I said: "What the heck, it looks great and it is a model anyway!" But black would look good, too ..... maybe I bite the bullet!

Dietrich

I'm done! What a journey!

Dietrich