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Triumph68 wrote:often ...heller kit are very simple...look real radar and heller's...tat's gonna need some ...improovements

Sorry but that AA director does not have radar

Captain Morgan wrote:

Triumph68 wrote:often ...heller kit are very simple...look real radar and heller's...tat's gonna need some ...improovements

Sorry but that AA director does not have radar

true...was looking for correct word and radar came to mind...but should have been "gun director"

don some more stuff...not yet take pictures...but here's the airplane catapult
first ...comparisation Tom's modelworks and heller's

and this with airplain stand on it (added also the pression Bottles, grey and a command stand white)...and the plaine .."arado"

a quick dry put together of bridge part and pagode....ok..pagode isn't right name but its a good step to the Japanese pagode mast of their warships like Kongo

been adding some portholes, doors, ladders ....am I glad there are now photo edge stuff to improove things

airplaine and catapult painted ...not happy with airplaine windows effect...

DavidP wrote:is the canopy painted silver?

yes

working on my AA viereflak ....I'll need 4

"working on my AA viereflak ...."

It's been a long time, but I believe it's Flakvierling.

modified painting on the arado...way better now...some finetuning to do though

back on the scheer....changed my radar position on top of mast..top elements where inversed ..finished it some more
and build the crane...modification of heller crane (drilled te whole to make it lighter) and added some realing wheels to have a functional one

found some stuff to put on ...I say the arado is finished for me

I like showing how I work....might help others...or some might give me advice how to do better..
railings...I bend..then paint...then glue on
my forward castle is getting on...railings bend and paint...double AA gun build and paint..tomorow..fixing

not sur yet if those double guns are ok though...they seem to be correct...need 4

as shown in this black and white picture...I chose to close the 8 secondairy guns (heller kit has back fully open)

That�s a tricky picture, the flat surface with the door is actually part of the ship�s superstructure and not the gun shield. The back of the guns didn�t have steel doors just a canvas cover which could be rolled upwards when not needed.

Here you can see the door open (red arrow)

this picture is of graf spee...but where their secondairy guns not same?...I was convinced that the main guns and secondairy guns where all the same on the 3 Deutschland class troughout their life span and different modifications.... in this picture there are clearly doors...very confusing and not many good pictures around on that fact

This is Scheer:

And another one. Of course these are peacetime photos and it's possible that steel doors were fitted later to Scheer too but I could'nt find any evidence to confirm or refute this.