Kriegsmarine Carrier Project CVL Seydlitz

[nönöbär]

Here is the the first what-if I have build around 1995. As it was the first one I ever made, its a quite basic in many respects.

The ship:

This is the CVL Seydlitz, a Kriegsmarine carrier project of WW2.
The Seydlitz was a heavy cruiser, very similar to the Prinz Eugen. Germany had ordered a toal of 5 heavy cruisers, three of them were build (Admiral Hipper, Blücher and Prinz Eugen), two of them were unfinisherd.
The Lützow was sold to the Soviet Union in 1940, the Seydlitz was to be converted into a CVL.

In May 1942, the Seydlitz was almost completed with only the catapult, cranes, masts and flak equipment missing. The construction was stopped in June of 1942 and it was considered to modify the ship as an aircraft carrier, the project "Weser 1 ". Between the end of 1942 and spring of 1943, the main guns were removed, followed by the removal of the superstructure, until only the funnel was left.

The ship was brought to Königsberg where it was blown up at the end of the war.

More about the Seydlitz can be found here:
https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/zplan/carrier/seydlitzcvl/index.html
https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/ships/heavycruiser/seydlitz/index.html

The model:
The model is an old Revell 1/720 Prinz Eugen kit, which was converted in a quite similar way than the original - the superstructure was removed and then a new one, including flight deck and island was build from plasic sheets and the original kit parts.
The Ju 87 dive bombers were made from toothpicks, paper and plastic parts (ok, hard to itendify, I know...)

The pics:

[NARSES2]

So you scratch built Ju 87's in 1/720  

Nice looking ship and model

[TsrJoe]

very nice indeed 

[Cobra]

Superb Job You did Great! Keep up the Great work Dan

[RussC]

Nice carrier build. If the Seydlitz had half the luck of the Prinz', it would have thrived and survived, but likely given a date with the Bikini Atoll atom bomb as reward. 

[ysi_maniac]

flight deck and island was build from plasic sheets and the original kit parts.
The Ju 87 dive bombers were made from toothpicks, paper and plastic parts (ok, hard to itendify, I know...)

BTW: Stukas are recognizable.
Think on adding a pair of these http://www.luft46.com/junkers/ju187.html

[pyro-manic]

Wow! Very impressive, nönöbär!

[nönöbär]

Thanks for your comments so far 

I have some other what-if ships which I have made quite a while ago, I will show them here in the next days, just have to make some new photos of them.

I just returned to scale model building recently after a break of over 10 year, so I have to get used to it again

@ysi_maniac: I guess I will have something you will like on a other modell...

[sequoiaranger]

A very worthy project and execution! I was going to attempt a Seydlitz, myself, but gave up. I still have a version of it in my WW II "what-if" naval wargame:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashita/seydli_f.htm

I like what you did very much!

[nönöbär]

A very worthy project and execution! I was going to attempt a Seydlitz, myself, but gave up. I still have a version of it in my WW II "what-if" naval wargame:

http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashita/seydli_f.htm

I like what you did very much!

www.combinedfleet.com is your site? Then you have one of my other designs on it as well, the Odin

[sequoiaranger]

>www.combinedfleet.com is your site? Then you have one of my other designs on it as well, the Odin<

You're now "outed", Mr. Michael Emmerich! Imagine, an angled-deck, hybrid carrier/battleship based on the Bismarck!

And here is "your" page in my "Fleet"!

http://www.combinedfleet.com/furashita/odin_f.htm

Welcome to the "monkey house" of what-if modelers!

[Joe C-P]

Hello Michael. Welcome to the whiff.

JoeP

[nönöbär]

@sequoiaranger  & JoeP:

Ok, you got me.... 
The world is pretty small sometimes.