Re: NöNö Bärs Shipyard (Completed: Kriegsmarine Tirpitz)

[nönöbär]

A few more things have been added to the Z1936 NATO

New masts have been made with a 3D program and printed. On the aft. mast, the SPS-48 radar has been added.

On the aft. superstructure, there are two SPG-51 antennas plus a MK13 SAM launcher.

Really interesting how the look of a ship changes with those new masts&sensors.

[nönöbär]

Its almost, done, several other smaller parts are added.

Now the PE madness will begin soon.



And its time to think about a name of the ship.

[Caveman]

Those masts look really good! I've been contemplating making some radar sets for a lindberg LST @ 1:245 (box scale?) but was worried about how to do it. Looks like print them is the answer 

[nönöbär]

Those masts look really good! I've been contemplating making some radar sets for a lindberg LST @ 1:245 (box scale?) but was worried about how to do it. Looks like print them is the answer 

I was surprised that the masts went so good. But I had to print tons of them until i got them right. First I made some errors in measurement, then I forgot stuff in the 3D program, then the printer went mad.... And I always print 4-5 masts at once, printing time is the same, but if something goes wrong, I still have some spare ones.

[nönöbär]

The D166 is almost done now. Only a few PE parts are still missing. and i have to get the final go from my technical advisor.



Still thinking for a name, but there are only a few choices left.

[NARSES2]

That is so neat 

[zenrat]

Name?

As it's a destroyer, how about Sioned, after a girl Mrs z and I used to live with who could destroy anything.

[Captain Canada]

Very nice.

[nönöbär]

A small preview what my engineer is working on currently.

Its tiny....

[NARSES2]

Its tiny....

And I thought it was the English who were meant to be the masters of understatement ? 

[Old Wombat]

Its tiny....

And I thought it was the English who were meant to be the masters of understatement ? 

Apparently the words "miniscule" & "microscopic" were too large to convey the size of the thing.

[NARSES2]

Apparently the words "miniscule" & "microscopic" were too large to convey the size of the thing.

[nönöbär]

While my "small" project is in its final stages, something else leaves the shipyard:

The USS Taussig (DD 746). This is a 1/700 scale Albatross kit, never saw this brand before. It was a quite easy to build one, but the Measure 32 camo scheme was a bit tricky to make.
Build OOB, with the usual PE additions, painted with Revel Aqua Color.

[NARSES2]

Very neat 

[nönöbär]

Now lets go back in the past for something new. About 2000 years ago.

A while ago, I stumbles over a book series called "Kaiserkrieger", an alternate worlds / alternate history book series (I think only available in German). The plot is like this: just before WW1, an older small German Cruiser is somehow send back into time into the days of the Roman Empire of the year 300something. The series then tells the events of the ship and crew and how they integrated themselves into the roman empire of these days. Part of this is, how they started to integrate "modern" technology into this time, like building very simple steam ships.

Back to reality: i once read that some historians say that Romans had the technology to build steam engines but did not put all the required ends together to create one. So for this WhatIf, I will take a Roman warship of 50BC (only Roman warship I found) and modify it with a simply steam engine:

This is the kit:



And this is how the ship looks right now. All is about 1/250 scale.