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Kriegsmarine Schlachtschiff H

Started by nönöbär, May 26, 2012, 03:05:35 AM

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nönöbär

This model of the German Schlachtschiff H project was made around 1988.

The ship:


The Schlachtschiff H was the first of a class of six battleships being the successor of the Bismarck and Tirpitz. As part of the Z-Plan (Germans naval builing program before WW2), the H-class was significant bigger than its predescessors, equipped with eight 40,6 cm guns and diesel engines.

Two ships of this class were laid down in summer of 1939, the "H" and the "J", but they were scrapped after the outbreak of the war.
During the war, the H class degin was modified according the the latest lessons leared from naval warware which finally lead to the H-44 design, a monster of 140.000 ts and 345m length. However, those later designs were just studies and it was never palnned to build those ships. It was more "How should a perfect battleship look like".


More about the H-class can be found here:
https://www.german-navy.de/kriegsmarine/zplan/battleships/schlachtschiffh/index.html


The model:
The model was mainly build with parts of two Revell 1/570 scale Tirpitz models, plus some parts (like the secondary armamanet) from an Airfix 1/600 Bismarck. The scale of the model is roughly 1/600.
Superstructure was altered with additional plasitc sheets, which were also used to build the hangar structure aft and the boat deck. Main guns, funnels, flak, boats and other parts were taken from the original kits.
As there was no name given for those ships, I have choosen "Hindenburg" for it.

The pics:





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NARSES2

Now that is really nice  :thumbsup: It's always good to see this paper warships in model form, you get a much better feel for them
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dumaniac

Interesting concept - nice build

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Joe C-P

One does wonder what would have happened to the aircraft if the main guns were fired.
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NARSES2

Wasn't that a problem with a lot of ships which had the "cat" placed near the stern ?
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sequoiaranger

Very nice.

I suppose you could have used the 1/570 Tirpitz hull and turrets but use 1/700 superstructure, etc. for the 21-inch-gunned, 120,000-ton "H-44" monster!!

Future project??  ;D
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This has always been in my wish list.
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nönöbär

Quote from: NARSES2 on May 29, 2012, 08:01:38 AM
Wasn't that a problem with a lot of ships which had the "cat" placed near the stern ?

I would think that the aircraft would only put there when it should be launched, otherwise they were stored in the hangar besides/under turret "C". However, its intersting that they choose this location for the catapult for all H-class designs, while on other designs, they went to a more "conventional" way.
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