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"Did the Russians learn anything about the ship from these plans?" That I can't say. I suspect that warship plans were the least of their concern as army group center arrived outside Moscow. Then there was the protracted job of removing the intruding German army from their homeland. "...

Welcome to the site Coyote850 :wink:. My understanding is the Soviets had 70% of the ships plans before the outbreak of hostilities. This is no surprise about this as the soviet military mission to German had been given an open-house approach by order of Hitler as part of the treaty between them (re...

....By disgrace our problems with reciprocal feelings deny me to ask her ... Now this has come out of your translator all “cock-eyed” but I think there is a normal story here. Her father worked in a shipyard but since your relationship with her ended unhappily you can not ask questions about her fa...

G’Day Ulrich (and everybody :D), I was surprised by the level of detailing considering they were just for general silhouette identities, very impressive. These will make quite a collectable set in the future (“complete” historical collections are way more expensive than partial sets), something to h...

G’Day Foeth, I’ve looked at you’re work just quickly, earlier in the week, but had no time to comment as I was very tired from work. Now that I have had a better look I would like to congratulate you on this extremely intricate and professional work :clap: :clap: . I don’t even have the techniques t...

Thanks Antonio I will e-mail you soon. You have been very busy with the Tirpitz history and I don’t wish to impose too much on your time so I will make it very quick questions for you.
Regards Steve

In an attempt to offer assistance I re-posted your question where I thought you would get a better answer. There was a re-direct to the site below but you must register to post there. I am sorry I can’t help you any further and I wish you good luck :wink:. http://p216.ezboard.com/bwarships1discussio...

G’day all,
Is this a good book for the hobby-modeler or more for researchers, historian. By this I mean would I find things directly useful in building a scale ship or is it more about a total understanding of the weapons?
Regards Steve

G’Day all, Matthias, yes it’s evergreen again like on the Tamiya Bismarck. The disc is 1.0mm thick and the base plate/turret floor is 0.75mm. 0.75mm is the best for this as it is strong but flexible too. Today I have been building an internal frame for the turret plating to glue to and give it a cor...

KF Kleine Fahrt (lowest speed) Ahead slow LF Langsame Fahrt (slow speed) Ahead 1/3 (one third) HF Halbe Fahrt (half speed) Ahead half GF Große Fahrt (high speed) Ahead 2/3 AF Alle Fahrt (full speed) Ahead full AK Äußerste Kraft (extreme speed) Flank speed ahead ST Stop! (stop propulsion) All stop H ...

G'day Dave,
I can't help you but I do know a site that can (all they talk about is US ships ).
Here's a link, http://members.boardhost.com/Warship/, I hope that helps you out .
Regards Steve

G'Day mate, Sadly this is looking to be the case (all the faults in the cover artwork should be a warning in advance :shock: :shock:). The upside is that it’s a treasured gift that was very thoughtfully given to me. I’m trying to make use of it now (1:100 Turret) and I’m finding inconsistencies to s...

G’Day Bgile, the question is…. How could I tell if the image that I’m looking at is a mirror (flipped) image or not if I’m looking at the Bismarck heading towards me? Is there some unique characteristic on either side of the ship that I can use to orientate the image? I know that there is not much “...

Thank you all for the comments .
I hope that you all find it as helpful and motivating as I find this place.
Regards Steve

G'Day everyone, How would I tell port from starboard if I was looking at the Bismarck head on? The reason for this is that while studying “Anatomy of…….Bismarck” I’ve got conflicting drawings of the main turrets (p102 and p110) that are mirrored to the vast array of online photos of all 4 turrets. O...