After completing a modern ship I've come back to WWII battleship and this time I try with Revell's Bismarck.
This time I tried to do some documentation and here I am fully armed.
In this case I equipped myself like this:
- Revell kit in 1/350 scale
- Pontos kit
- an additional Bismarck wooddeck
- 2 books on Bismarck
- the figures from ION Models (new for me but I will try to do my best)
Compared to the pontos kit of the previous ship I've built, this one has more photo-etched sheets. I read that the Revell kit is very well made, but honestly I found the plastic railings to be very coarse while the photo-etched ones seem finer but also more to scale.
How will I do it? Obviously I thought of doing the classic Baltic camouflage. The only strange thing (for me) is that from this researcher's book I see that the top of turret 1 and 4 are red, something I've never seen in all Bismarck creations,but having decided to stick to "safe" sources I stuck to this color rather than making the tops yellow which honestly I don't like.
Let's get to the wodden decks. Since it's the first time I use a system like this, I decided to get one more in addition to the one in the kit. And here I got some news: although the two kits are both from Pontos and both are for Bismarck Revell, they are slightly different (the ones with the arrow are those from the main kit).
Ok let's get to the first stages of the work.
I've immediately decided about doing something outside the instructions: I've decided to erase those sort of steps at the stern and replace them with PE steps that I had left over from the previous kit. Being still in 1/350 I think they are still fine.
For trying to do things well I took the Pontos instructions for the 1/200 Bismarck and then printed the template to make the fixing points, converting it to 1/350 scale.
I think the idea is good, let's see if I'm able to do this!
December 1940:
