Admiral Graf Spee 1939 in 1/700
Boxart is nice... gonna be a little bigger than my 1/72 tanks 🙂
Dry fitting of subassemblies
Wood deck texture is good enough for me... maybe I should have bought new gun barrels...
Already showing its characteristic twin-turret appearance
The recon plane and catapult will be enhanced with PE and added later
First PE-works on the main mast. I dind´t do a mess... yet
A tiny boat with a little PE. There´s only enough PE for two boats in the WEM set though...
The Arado floatplane had some very fiddly PE parts. I already fitted it onto the catapult carriage as it helped me to allign the floats much better
The "Coronel" plate on the main superstructure is sitting right below the searchlight platform
The railings for the main deck have also been fitted
The superstructures are still missing their railings although I started adding PE ladders
The Graf Spee had a targeting radar on the forward firing director. It looks much better in PE than in plastic
I started doing some railings on the superstructure and built up the cranes
Aside from railings, I also fitted some ladders to parts of the superstructure
The Graf Spee had an insignia plate on her bow which was also included in the PE set. A nice detail
It is coming along rather well...
I hope this amount of detail will do for now... much of it can be visually enhanced after painting so chances are, the result will look the part 🙂
The Flyhawk twin 3,7cm Flak 30... their AA Weapos set was definetly worth the investment
All the subassemblies lined up for painting. First thing will be the primer, as tehere is a lot of PE around
Basic colors are done
Waterline masking turned out to be a little problematic... have get more experience with this flexible masking tape stuff
With a wash applied, the details of the superstructure became much more pronounced
Those Flyhawk AA guns are just magnificient in their level of detail
The boat make the ships main decks look way more "populated"
I also managed to do some painting on the floatplane. Also some wood areas have been further distinguished by a dark brown wash
The stand Has been modified to have the nameplate attached to it. It still needs paint though
Some additional weathering on the main deck was achieved by spreading out streaks of dark brown wash
The screws also still await painting
My rigging may not be 100% professional, but bettter than nothing
Komentarzy
13 15 December 2020, 19:20
Tom B.Thank you for the interest 👍 And yes, that´s my rather friendly part-holding Styrofoam-Berg
22 December 2020, 16:33
Marc SchnitzlerSieht echt gut aus, vor allem bin ich vom Detailgrad überrascht in dem Maßstab (Jenseits von Flyhawk jedenfalls)😄
Die Torpedowerfer haben mehr Details als die von meiner Academy Spee in 1/350... 😄
22 December 2020, 20:49
Tom B.Had to sideline work on this a little, as time was taken up by some real life stuff, but I finally managed to get a large portion of the painting done 🙂 Thus: Weathering ahead!
18 January 2021, 17:56
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I am building Trumpeters/Pit-Roads 1/700 scale Deutschland-class heavy cruiser Admiral Graf Spee in her 1939 fit when she was on her final vojage to meet her destiny in the southern Atlantik.
I have been fascinated by the German "Pocket Battleships" for a while now, as their concept and devlopment history is quite interesting both technically and historically. And the vessel looks really nice... so I have to build it 🙂
WEM hotoetch is being used as well as some Flyhawk injection AA weaponry which should be better than the kit parts. Other than that however, the kit is rather nice and fits well enough
