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Iwd: this data is told in every model shop in the Netherlands and also can be seen on the yearly model conventions in october/november in Nieuwegein. It is a well known fact that German armour is unanimously loved by all modellers!!! The same thing happens if it comes to the warships. They talk a lo...

There is a category IV: most popular ships to built (scale models) in teh Western countries including Japan, Israel, Poland... Important fact: there must be models to buy of the battleships. All battleships can be built in 1:700, many in bigger scales, a dozen in 1:350, a couple in 1:200, some 1:100...

Last time I saw a list the ranking of the most powerfull ships seems to be fully logical to me. Powerfull + Armament + Armour + AA + Displacement + Speed + Technical support. I. Top Ten Most Famous WWII BBs and BCs: 1. Bismarck 2. Hood 3. Arizona 4. Warspite 5. Schanhorst 6. Royal Oak 7. PoW 8. Repu...

Tommy303. You even surpassed your well balanced evaluations insofar with your last comment. This give me finally some comfort, which haunted me for so long: Bismarck was in a sense sacrified by the high command of the Kriegsmarine. Time was not on Germany's side but throwing the precious Bismarck to...

Those Spider-models, when given the small railings are very beautiful. Like paricularly: Junyo, Akagi, Taiho, Tone, Haguro, Suzuya and Oyodo. I miss here the Takao class, a full 1944 painted Zuiho and an hybrid Mogami. It seems Neptun now also paint the wooden decks of the battleships!!! I did that ...

"Most of the British shells struck the forward superstructure of Bismarck with the hits late in the action simply rearranging the debris created by earlier shell hits. A few shells struck and penetrated the 350mm conning tower, the upper splinter belt and the lower side belt." We discusse...

Ulrich.

Did you made all those perfect railings on the 1/1250 ships?

Like the Bismarck with the yellow turret tops and that big Japanese carrier (Akagi?). What an amazing and fine details.

I bought the movie and showed at it using my new Plasma TV-set and new Cambridge/ KEF surround set: - when the huge Yamato fired its main armament shooting the "Beehive" shells at the incoming swarms of deadly US naval aircraft I was rocked out of my chair by the sheer rumbling thunder. WO...

1:50 of ???? Balsa. Quality: excellent. 1:100 of MZ-modelbau (Germany). Complete model of Bismarck about €2500,-. Raisin, Metall, Messing. Quality: excellent. Most promising!!! 1:144 of Heller. No metall or raisin parts. Quality: good. You can open and close doors!! 1: 197 of Fine Arts. Raisin Model...

Ok think of buying and building the Bismark 1:100 of MZ-Modelbau (3000 Euro's) or buy the 1:197 ship totally built and painted from Fine Arts Models in de USA (about 10.000 Dollars). Because of the cheap dollar this ship will cost about 7.500 Euro's!!! A very difficult choice. The 1:100 ship takes a...

Tommy303. You keep on surprising me with all your very detailed knowledge of the ships of the Bismarck class and sheer logic of all your comments insofar. It seems to me that you are THE expert on this matter and easily can write your own book about the Bismarck. As a young boy this type of ship imp...

1): Large but ineffective AA-arsenal (despite those futuristic domed Gyro stabilized high angle rangefinder stations). the 3,7 guns had a too low ROF and there were to few 2 cm guns. The Bismarck lacked a well trained AA-crew (with the weaponry at hand this became a fatal omission!!!) 2): No seconda...

The initial question was to produce a list of flaws and rate its impact on the failed (but much needed) mission of the Bismarck: 1). The team (BM & PEW) was not given full protection of U-boats and Luftwaffe in time or during most of the trip. The reach of the Luftwaffe was limited but nothing w...

Tommy303: your description of the causes of the low ROF of the Bismarck in its last fight is the BEST description I ever read. This is possible how it happened in those 42 minutes. Burner: I valuate highly your statistical model of computing how many shells Bismarck fired totally. For the Denmark St...

In Normandy I was deeply impressed with the long barrelled German naval battery of Longues. All 4 they are awesome. 1 of the guns was hit after being bombarded by 1000's of shells. But they are still there, giving a slight but strong impression of the once powerfull Atlantik Wall. Nothing "weak...