Hello everyone!
Long time no post, its been a bit busy around here. I would like to show you some pictures of my latest model. It took me a lot of time and it is not fully correct for the time depicted but what can you do. I got lazy and I did not take good pictures of the progress.
It is the SMS König around the battle of Jutland. The kit is the ICM kit with the Flyhawk upgrade kit for it. The scale is 1/700. Some parts were 3D printed, for example the 15cm gun casemates and the torpedo net booms. I chose to 3D print them because I needed so many to look the same. It was painted using acrylic paints. The masts are made out of brass rods. The rigging is a mix of stretched sprue, metal wire from Modelkasten and elastic thread from Uschi vdR. As reference I used plans from Koop and Schmolke and some copies of the B. Scholz plans I found online. I also found some nice photographs online. The model also has some custom made photo-etch parts, like the torpedo net davits, bow crown, and hatches. The torpedo net is rolled up photo-etched grid, i think it looks OK. It was a very long process but I learned a lot about the ships of this time, and new techniques.
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Comments and critique are very welcome!
