Z plan German M class Cruiser 1940

[Haratio Fales]

Hello everyone. I am a vetran of both the U.S. Army and Navy. I worked on F14 tomcats, and M1 Abrams tanks. I have built models since the age of 5, and studied military and war history since about 14. I have built a few scratch built models before, but this is by far the largest I have undertaken.

I have allot of it done but I am going to post in Chronilagical order with out trying to be redundant. I hope You like it.

All comments are welcome as I can learn from positive or negative. Or if you are just mean I can always laugh behind Your back.

[Haratio Fales]

Picture 008.jpg This is a cutout of the Bow section of the ship, I blew it up from some line drawings that I obtaned from Germany while I was stationed there in the Army.

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Picture 011.jpgThe ship would have been 181 meters long which was not to much shorter than Prinze Eugen. The Germans were notoriuos for building ships big for their class. This was due to the ranges they would have needed for Comerce Raiding.

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Picture 012.jpg A scale reference of an old ME 109 on the Caesar barbette to give a little ldea of teh size of the ship.

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Picture 014.jpgI attatched the plans to 1mm thick frame cardboard.

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Picture 018.jpgI outlined the deck shape on 1/4th inch oak plywood, and cut out with a jigsaw.

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Picture 022.jpgI used 1/4th inch plywood for the ribs, I was in error when I said I used that size for the deck, that was 1/8th inch.

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Picture 026.jpgThe center Keel board is curved but I'll straighten it out as I glue it down to teh underside of teh deck.

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Picture 034.jpgMore ribs and a bow nose insert, and she's ready to start puting in fill wood.

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Picture 040.jpgI used a whole bottle of glue and it dawned on Me that the fill wood was 1/2 inch thick so I jumped to screws, they are faster and hold just as good if not better.

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Picture 045.jpgI mixed up a batch of cake frosting and smeared it over the fill wood and ribs to get and Idea of what the shape would come out looking like.

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Picture 053.jpgJust kidding, it's auto body filler.

[Neb]

Whoa! You don't fool around, do you!

Can't wait to see more! Welcome to RI!

[DarthDuck]

Hmmmm, the pics aren't appearing for me? Hope they do though- I wanna ogle this thing!

And, welcome aboard.

[Haratio Fales]

Thank You both. I am posted on/ Gentleman's Military Interest Club. SSM IPMS Malta, The Model Ship Forum, and The Jolly Roger Shipyard. My threads are under Scratch built, or Marine sections of those sites also. It seems like every site has different picture procedures, and I have been learning to utilize the different ways to post pics on all the sites.
I hope it doesn't Make waves for me to mention the other sites here.

I used to converse with Will Babington some years ago when he was working on the resin 1/32 Firefox, and I was working on a 1/32 F19 Specter scratch built project.

Anyway I like how You have the site set up and I only mentioned the other sites so if My pics are not showing up here, You can view them elsewhere. Like I said I hope this isn't a problem. I can try to format the pics different if need be, let me know if there's a way. I noticed on the Beufighter post the pics look bigger right on the page.