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The German battlecruiser Derfflinger as she appeared at the battle of Jutland 1916
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Hi Joe
Incredible as always! A couple of questions: 1. How long did it take to develop your amazing skills? 2. Did you teach yourself or did someone else show you how to build these models? 3. What scale is the Bismarck on the preceding page? Regards, Mike |
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Hey there Mike
I've been doing this for over 20 years. I'm self thought through the school of life. Once you do something enough times you begin to realize how things are done and it doesn't take long before you can build a passable model. The right tools also help. I have every clamp, razor saw, paint, and do-dad imaginable. Also, a phalanx of airbrushes and compressors helps out too. Bismarck is 1/700. A great scale for detail but also for display. The larger the ship, the more real estate needed to display it
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In case you're interested Mike, here are all the photos of Bismarck as she appeared in 1941 at the start of Exercise Rhine.
Bismarck was a very dangerous ship in the way the Germans were using her. Instead of pitting Bismarck against enemy battleships, the Kriegsmarine decided to use her as a commerce raider to destroy ships carrying supplies to Britain. This had been tried earlier in the war with the slightly smaller German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in what became known as the Reign of Terror. So there was a proof of concept. Bismarck was under orders from Admiral Lütjens not to engage enemy surface vessels, but when she was caught by HMS Hood and HMS Prince of Wales she had no real choice but to fight. In a twist of naval fate, Bismarck destroyed HMS Hood, a battlecruiser of similar size, in less than 120 seconds from the time Bismarck sighted Hood. Hood detonated like an 900 foot long bomb after Bismarck penetrated Hoods aft magazines. Out of a crew of nearly 1500, only 3 survived. The British had no choice but to hunt down and kill Bismarck after that. I won't go into the whole story, but it's one of the best stories of the war. It's a story of "one in a million" chances for each side that keeps happening over and over. About the model: The swastika banners were painted on the deck to prevent the Luftwaffe from bombing the ship by accident while in coastal waters and in the Baltic. Once Exercise Rhine got underway they were painted over with grey paint. The black and white zebra stripes were intended to break up the ship's outline to confuse British submarines. The decks are planked with wood. They did this on the real ship for anti-skid in wet seas and to insulate a bit. Under the wood was the armored deck. The Italians did something similar with their ships, they used red and white alternating stripes on the deck to deter the Regia Aeronautica from attacking friendly ships.
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Thanks!!
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One of my favorite subjects, Shackleton's S/Y Endurance in 1/1250 scale, built inside of a pocket watch case. The hull is made from wood, masts are brass, railings are photoetched brass.
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Thank you!
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In your broken thread post, I absolutely love the Kellys Heros gold scene. It took me a second but oddball sticks out as well as the German tank driver
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Ha! Thanks! In the film, they use modified Russian T34 tanks for the Tigers but I built the Tiger as a historic Tiger, but with the same fantasy camouflage scheme they used.
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Ship I've been working on, German mine breaker, 1/700 scale
Kriegsmarine Sperrbrecher Dreizehn, 1943
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Always wondered what kind of "danger money" they'd get paid to crew a minesweeper
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My uncle served on an ammunition ship in Korea. A ship filled to the gills with ammunition, projectiles, bombs, missiles, mines, explosives, etc. All the things that go boom. I think they got an extra $45 per month for danger pay.
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Amazing work Joe....
Always a great to view your talent..
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Beautiful work, as always, Joe.
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love seeing your work Joe your a true artist
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Right now I’m working on a model of an Austro-Hungarian destroyer named K.u.K SMS Scharfschütze or “sharpshooter” in English.
I really enjoy the Austro-Hungarian Navy since it did have some mighty large dreadnoughts with some nice advancements but tempered by wild flaws. Not only that but the fact that the Empire doesn’t exist anymore makes for good reading. By wild flaws I mean that their fleet of dreadnoughts were so top heavy, that at full tick, if the helm was turned hard over, the engineers were concerned they’d capsize. Anyway, this goofy looking destroyer is SMS Scharfschütze, she didn’t do anything interesting during WWI, but that hasn’t stopped me from trying to recreate her in 1/700 Scale. I’ll report back with some photos of her once she’s all painted in her green camouflage.
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Amazing once again Joe!
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Wow beautiful Joe
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Amazing work as always!
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Latest model.
I’m scratch building a model of the port engine from Titanic. 1/350 scale. It’s coming along though, lots of piping left at this point. The model is entirely scratch built from styrene, brass, and aluminum. The crank is turned aluminum as are the cylinders. The triple-Expansion engines used on Titanic were the largest of their type. Most big liners of the time used high-pressure Parsons turbines but White Star decided that they’d go for size and economy in their ships. Titanic and her sisters used 2 Triple Expansion reciprocating engines exhausting into a low pressure Parsons turbine. This arrangement burned about half the coal of her competitors Mauritania and Lusitania while being about 35% larger in size. Titanic was by no means slow. They never maxed out Titanic on her trials but Her sister did clock 25kts which is pretty substantial for her hybrid power plant and fuel economy. To put it all into perspective, Titanic could make 46,000 horsepower at full revolutions. She was 882’ long at 52,000 tons. The fastest ocean liner ever built was SS United States, 990’ And 55,000 tons. United States entered service in 1952 and her top speed was somewhere around 46kts. No one really knows the true top speed since they felt going further could cause too much stress. SSUS developed 247,000 horsepower at full revs. 247,000!!!!!!
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Incredible....and amazing Joe.
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This one will be amazing. Such detail astounds me. Extremely beautiful work.
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