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Thank you very much for the information. I assumed if Bismarck was 1 foot than Scharnhorst was probably in the neighborhood of 10 inches and P.E. 8 inches taking into account the width of the ships. I always thought camber was for water run off but didn't think about the benefit of having shells bou...

Hello, I'm building a model of the Prinz Eugen in 1/100 scale. Many modifications to the hull so I'm not to the planking part yet. I would go lighter because teak lightens on a deck and also because models should be a couple of shades lighter than the real ship. For example, one should always lighte...

I have a fiberglass hull of 1/100 scale Bismarck (I also have the fiberglass hull of the Prinz Eugen) and getting ready to build the model. Usually model builders will measure the height of deck and width by station and construct a template sheet with stations that the hull sits over to get the accu...