Anyone else "Building the Bismarck" ?

[Pagan]

Nice work Gordon

Now I know what I have to look forward too....

[JSlavick]

Wow! I just went through this entire thread. What an amazing model and narrative to take us along as it was built. Thanks!

Joe Slavick

[Stuart Bates]

Gordon,

what a wonderful example of shipbuilding! It reminds me of a TV filler way back in the late 1950s which featured a radio controlled British 6" cruiser, with firing guns to boot

Some years ago I built a 3 foot version of PT109. One had to construct the hull upside down and I can well remember the hours spent fitting and shaping the side planks. And the endless sanding.

Unfortunately I was talked into getting a "hot" motor for it and not only did that require modifications, the heavy duty battery meant that the transom was almost underwater.

I still have it and fantasize about putting it in my dam and letting rip with my shotgun. But after removing the RC stuff of course.

Stuart

[Troy Tempest]

Excellent Gordon! Looking at the close-ups it's hard to understand with all those big, medium and small flak guns, that they couldn't shoot down a slow-as Swordfish before it delivered the Bismarck's death blow.

[Gordon Williamson]

I think the problem with much of the shipboard Flak armament on German warships was that it was great against enemy aircraft over a certain height, but if they came in literally at wavetop hieght as the Swordfish did, the guns couldn't depress low enough to target them.