Graf Zeppelin.....1/720.....Revell

[Beowulf Shaeffer]

built for a GB elsewhere.............only my second ever floaty thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_air ... f_Zeppelin;

learnt a lot from this..........


a reinforced respect for guys who habitually do this stuff...............the scale was daunting to me.....i sometimes struggle with 1/72 cos of chubby finger syndrome

trying to paint a Me109 or Stuka with a 10mm wingspan aint easy!!!!!!!

and...............it was a lot of fun to do something completely different to what i normally.....thoroughly enjoyed doing this


bad points................the decals were rubbish! ...the ones that were supposed to go on the flight deck dissolved..................so did the 'flags'............when i get some ink for my printer i might have a go at making some for it to finish it off

excuse the pics on a slant.........only way i could get it all in the frame and not be too far away from it

buildup pics in my workbench thread

already thinking of the next shippy build

[Justin1980]

Very nicely done,

The aircraft paint schemes are impressive. A very clean impressive build. What is the plan for the "next floaty thing"?

Justin

[Desert_fox]

Agreed. I've always been intimidated by ships, even though I actually have a couple stashed away from childhood that could be built anytime now...
You may be inspiring me!

[Dirkpitt289]

SWeet. I started a ship about 3 years ago and have yet to finish t

[Beowulf Shaeffer]

What is the plan for the "next floaty thing"?

Got a few in the stash.........next one (but no idea actually ‘when’) might be the Revell Hawaiian Pilot freighter.......bigger scale so might be easier.........or.............ive got the bismark and the prince of wales battleships.....................ive always fancied doing a battlecarrier hybrid like this

Agreed. I've always been intimidated by ships, even though I actually have a couple stashed away from childhood that could be built anytime now...
You may be inspiring me!

SWeet. I started a ship about 3 years ago and have yet to finish it

Both need to crack on!


To be honest i was intimidated too, this was only the second ship ive ever done...........i just approached it in the same way that i do with any model........think it thro before you do!.............after all its just a load of plastic just like a plane or car or tank or whatever......cept its got a pointy end i thoroughly enjoyed doing this simply cos it was something different from what i normally do, i always get a kick out of solving little problems that arise whenever you build a model......this just had new little problems cos i wasnt familiar with how ships go together so that was fun

[Justin1980]

Indeed a battlecarrier hybrid, that would be cool!

I have seen one example of this as a model and these link maybe of interest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_b ... Hy%C5%ABga
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Ise

Trust the japanese to think outside the box!

And some links to the model

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html

And just found another

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html

and another

http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery ... index.html

I so hope you havent got the airfix 1/600 bismark ? I tried to build one and was easily defeated I intend to build all the ships fro the battle of denmark strait in 1/700 maybe......time......money......other interests!!!!

But I like the idea of a geman one, a what if build brilliant!

[Beowulf Shaeffer]

thanks for that.....came across most of that when i was doing research (i call it research...swmbo calls it skiving on the computer )....the IJN were good at modifying ships into the likes of the Akitsu Maru or Ryuhu

ive got the revell 1/720 offering........will get butchered modified oneday

[Chuck E]

The hybrid is a nice idea. I built one from the Airfix Bismarck years ago and then extended the deck all the way forward. It may be hiding in the garage nowadays. I think that they were looking at converting Gneisenau into a carrier at one point. A carrier was useless to them at this point though, unless they'd wanted to attack the USA. The only countries that really needed them then were America, Britain and Japan.