World War 1 Battleship & Battlecruiser Models

[Kyler]

As far as I can tell searching through the internet, ICM Models is the only company currently producing models of any battleships of World War 1 (Not including Modernized British Battleships).

Does anyone else know any manufactuers that currently produce either British or German dreadnoughts from that period? Thanks

[Karl Heidenreich]

Kyler,

Gone through that path already. Just buy me Hasegawa´s Mikasa (which is pre WWI) and then ICM König (or Grosser Kurfurst or Markraf) and that´s it. Looked for HMS Tiger, HMS Iron Duke, Von der Tann, Seydlitz or Grosser Kurfurst. None of them appeared, at least in 1:350.

Sad.

[Kyler]

Karl,

it is truly sad the the pinnacle of period in which battleships influenced the world history and there is little history and recreations of these mighty ships from the period.

Kyler

[marcelo_malara]

The lack of books is sad too.

[Kyler]

The literature is really bad, most of the decent information these days comes from online
sources.

Osprey is going to publish in Feb 2010 a book on German Dreadnoughts of World War 1.

It is the first book of its type that I can find about specifically German Dreadnoughts.
I am going to get their books on British & German Battlecruisers in the meantime

There are good preview of both books on Google Books.

[marcelo_malara]

You mean the 12 bucks booklets? I don´t trust them.

[Kyler]

You mean the 12 bucks booklets? I don´t trust them.

I know what you mean, but there is so little information out there about pre-World War 2 dreadnoughts that even a half way decent source is better then
any hardly at all.

The previews of the Battlecruiser books on Google books, they seem like decent quick books.

here's a link

http://books.google.com/books?id=Gwxya4 ... an&f=false

[marcelo_malara]

I would recomend ALL THE WORLD'S BATTLESHIPS: 1906 to the Present (Conway Classics) by Ian Sturton. There is a new edition (http://www.amazon.com/Conways-Battleshi ... 156&sr=8-7), I have the old one and is pretty good.

[Karl Heidenreich]

I have CONWAY´s thanks to Marcelo´s advice. Nice book. Helps a lot from time to time. Now that I´m reading Raven and Roberts it helps.

[marcelo_malara]

You have Raven and Roberts....I hate you!!!!

[Karl Heidenreich]

I have it on my lap and looking to this beautiful diagrams of... Barham... oh, look here: Nelson and there, Hood.... what´s over there? Vanguard. I´m out, have to read about 1922 BB Program.

Sorry...

[marcelo_malara]

Well, Hood doesn´t bother me, I have AOTS´, neither does Barham, as I have Warspite´s. No problem with Nelson, she was so ugly that certainly Gangut looks better.

Kind regards and congratulations for the aquisition.

PD: Has your wife started complaining about the money you "waste" on books?

[Kyler]

I have it on my lap and looking to this beautiful diagrams of... Barham... oh, look here: Nelson and there, Hood.... what´s over there? Vanguard. I´m out, have to read about 1922 BB Program.

Sorry...

That's not very nice, do I need to describe excerpts from my books about nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Reading about the process of radiation lensing in a thermonuclear reaction is actually quite interesting.

[Karl Heidenreich]

Marcelo:

I got this remark from my wife: "they all look the same and they are sadly gray..."

[Karl Heidenreich]

No problem with Nelson, she was so ugly that certainly Gangut looks better.

For many years I do believed that the Nelson were ugly. Been changing my opinion when reading of them and their "sad" history (the Treaties). But nothing that floats is as uglier than Gangut, nothing.