The Ship Model Forum

I have published the first volume of the book for anyone who is interested and or has been following along. It is on Amazon at:

https://www.amazon.com/Warships-Plan-Ge ... +of+Plan+Z

My You tube link for the Plan Z You Tube page is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NkUHFfmF_4

Thank You in advance to anyone who has been waiting to read the book I have been working on for 5 years now.

Peace out Haratio.

Hello Everyone. I have been working on this book for about 6 years now. I am very close to publishing it. I'm in the last editing stages now. I have been looking at 3D printers for modeling but they and the resin are just to expensive at the moment. I have also been considering getting a milling machine. Anyway here is a picture of My book cover. It should be on Amazon soon. I will post again when i publish it. I am also gearing up to pull the M class model out of storage and get back to work on her. I also have some good stuff on My You Tube channel TwistedSister/Haratiofales https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymtI5khEi5g&t=9s

OK WOW so its been over a Year since I have posted on the Forum. I have been re arranging my life, house, workshop, and rebuilding computers, learning about 3D printers, looking at lathes, and Mills. and writing a book about the Plan Z ships to publish. The book project has basically taken over any current Model projects so Ironically like the real M class cruiser, I laid down the hull and didn't finish it. I believe that I will be done with the book in 3 to 6 months, and I am shooting more for 3.

I have learned so much about 3D modeling, and have been using that for the Illustrations in the book. I am tempted to post in the 3D model section on those projects. I have a line drawing in Wikipedia that has replaced the old hand drawing of the D-Class cruiser. I am proud, and happy to be able to be able to help them make those articles better. I am working on the D class, the P class panzership, and the O class Battle cruiser at the moment, then I am going to start illustrating the M class light cruiser, and the Spahkruiser.

If you look on the illustration of the D class cruiser in Wikipedia, and click on it, You can view it much larger than on this site just so you can see the small detail better.

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here is some of the 3D work I have been doing to further the project.

Here is a pic of a sample piece made on one of the prototype printers I have ordered.

I have been working on my workshop and saving money for a Lath, and a 3D resin printer, along with learning the programing to draft CAD to use it. I ordered the first of 4 Laser resin machines and I have about 2 weeks to go and I can go to Denver to pick up a metal lathe. I have about 200 pages wrote about the ship designs for plan Z and am talking to publishing companies to see if I can get it published, but I need to finish writing and make the illustrations for it. take a quick look at the 1/350 Spahkreuzer post I added a couple photo's.

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I built a new workbench on the other side of My living room to further work on the Project.

i can see your model shipyard is busy and the turrets look really good , i can see a masterpiece starting to take shape , well in time i would like to build all the german navy ships or thats what i am aiming for but my main thing is to build ships that were never built but have plans , maybe its just theyre uniqueness that attracts me lol but I must admit you really have an amazing craftmanship hand and a sharp eye , greetings from south africa and may you have smooth oceans my friend

hello haratio my friend , i hope you are well ? ? I would gladly cover your costs for the plans printing and mailing of the kreuzer M , if you can make them 1:100 i would really appreciate it if thats possible , just hit me up with a qoute on dvmetalhead@gmail.com , just include how payment should be done please , i am also looking for a admiral hipper plan thats correct , your friend from the lions kingdom , south africa .

TY Hvy. That is what I was thinking. The brass in the center makes them look more like a real ship gun. I just need a beter lathe, which is in the works. Hello to You also Paul. I have been following along on Your project with great interest. I have been working on an aircraft project, and my Cars in the Yard, and It has kept snowing here up into april, the last to storms we have had have been worse than all winter. I have started working on Styrene CL34 150mm turrets for the Munich. Here are a few pics.

I would suggest the resin casting method for the gun barrels with the addition of using a brass tube for the inner bore of the barrel (that's how APS models does their 1/72 gun barrels...). Your wooden barrel would make an excellent master for making the mold up.

Cheers Bruce

Hello Haratio,

Long time no hear - Seems like you are creating a whole drafting and casting industry. Very good indeed. Just cannot wait to see more updates on the M- Class cruiser.

Take care.

sorry for the late reply D. Which ship would You like? I have the M class in 1/72 scale right now. It would cost about 30 to 50 dollars to mail it to your adress, I won't sell You the plans, as the plans for the M class I obtained from Germany from the originals, so I will give You the plans, I would just appriciate the covering of the Mailing and printing cost. I am acctually Drafting plans for the O class Battle Cruiser, The P class Panzer ship, and the Reconisance Large Destroyer - (Spahkruiser) so I would sell those at a latter Date as they are not finished and still under the pen as though to speak. I also have some line drawing copies of Prinze Eugan, and A Mine Sweeper design that I had obtained from the same source in Germany that I could send after scaling. If You would like the M class in 1/144, or 1/100, let me know. I am looking at posibly making a set in 1/87 scale to match a HO train diorama that a man here is working on. I still have Your adress in SA if it is the same, I just need to do more checking with the Postal Service here to get a beter price check, and have them weigh a Paper Tube container so I will have a better idea of the price. Will let You know, and tell me what You think. Your freind from the Ocean Front in Wyoming. Haratio.

well my friend brought me some white metal a while ago and i mixed it 50 , 50 with lead . I must admit they are pretty strong because we used crackers to make them shoot . Haratio do you maybe have a extra set of 1:144 or 1:100 or 1:72 set of plans there that you would sell ? ? My worst enemy my side is to get plans of models i want to build . I just used the plaster of paris to make a resin mould with and it works great

I plan to resin cast them, I was just seeing what kind of barrol I could lathe out on My Dremal hobby lathe (LOL) this barrol stretched the limit with the length. however I dont think it was to bad for just messing around. I have seen some wood toy kits for sale at the hobby stores and have thought about making wood turrets, and gun sets that wouldn't have to be in super acurate scale and detail, but more like a toy for 6 to 10 year olds. My older brother uses foam insulation sheets and hot knives for projects. I have thought that maybe I could make a simple hull shape, and ballest it, and put the wood guns and structures on top and it could float in a swiming pool. I'm just experimenting with the side ideas till I can fly on teh RC projects again. I have been determining all the WW2 German turret deminsions and drafting them. My older brother is Auto CAD formating them so when I can afford to buy the 3D printer we can produce them, however I think I can make some from othe materials, and resin cast them also, its just more time consuming. Thank You for the imput and interest though, You guys keep me going, because life tries to pull Me away all the time.