What-If Kriegsmarine Type "O" Battlecruisers

[Sean Hert]

Anyone interested in seeing the actual hull lines for these ships? Some found by the US Naval Technical Mission after WW2.

[Cliffy B]

Always sir, post away!

[USS California BB44]

Very. This has been one that I have been wanting to scratchbuild, but I have been put off by lack of hull plans.

[Sean Hert]

Here are the 3 plans I found-

I cleaned up the profile pic sorta roughly, to try and keep the image size manageable.

[Diederick44]

the O class battle ship just had that gun draw back for me

[DrPR]

Sean,

I have heard that the navy collected plans for several German and Japanese ships after WWII. Apparently some, if not all, are in the National Archives. Do you know where I can find a list of the ships, or lists of the drawings. How do you get copies of these drawings?

Phil

[Diederick44]

i also want to collect plans and build the german navy

[Aop Aur]

Hi Sean,
Are there any more references for this particular ship? I also want to build one and with those hull lines it would really help taking care much of the hull construction. But for the superstructure part, all I could find was simply side and top view.

Regards,
Aop

[able]

[PT Dockyard]

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Looks like the 1942 small US BB design at the bottom!

[darcy]

Hi Sean,
Are there any more references for this particular ship? I also want to build one and with those hull lines it would really help taking care much of the hull construction. But for the superstructure part, all I could find was simply side and top view.

Regards,
Aop

There is a book in French called "Plan Z - Le Fantasme Naval Allemand" by Pascal Colombier (Carakt�re Presse & �ditions) which includes several 3D-renderings of the P, O and M class battlecruisers.

[darcy]

Very. This has been one that I have been wanting to scratchbuild, but I have been put off by lack of hull plans.

I take it you have seen this:

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/trumpet ... a--1422597

Is it any good?