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Bugger, she'd be an easier conversion to Gloire than my Marseillaise, That said Trumpeter would need to look at adjusting the price a bit,

Just doing. Spot of reading around her, they were quite small even for light cruisers, great looking ship though,

I've actually just got my hands on a copy of it via another member of the group, its going to be very helpful I think,

That's brilliant, thanks Richard, appreciate the help, from reading through that sounds very doable but my build is likely a little too far through, without undoing some tricky work on the funnel, nowt for it but I'll just have to buy another and build both of them,

Hi All, As some know I'm part way through building Academys Graf Spee in 1/350. It occured to me that Admiral Scheer and Lutzow get very neglected in this scale but a conversion should surely be possible. I know there are some differences on the hill dimensions but in 1/350 they are negligible. I'm specifically considering adapting to Admiral Scheer post her 1940 refit where she lost the pogoda structure and had a pole mast instead. I may be too far through to now do that but though it's worth looking into. Lutzow would be really different and as I've got the artwox deck on that's certainly not possible. I've a copy of 'Pocket battleships of the Deutschland class' which describes the major changes but gives nothing much in wider detail or any kind of deck/platform plans of Scheer, I'm having difficulty finding any kind of plans or deyailed info on her post refit, So my questions are: 1, Any one know a good place to find further info on Admiral Scheer 2, Have any of you attempted this conversion 3, Even if you've not got references are you aware of any other changes outside of the forward superstructure? Thanks in advance Sam

Be very curious to hear what you think to the medium, she's on my list too but the price and it being a print have held me off hitting purchase so far,

Thanks for sharing the project Jeff, she looks great,

Looking great Jon, Wouldn't it of been a treat to of seen one of these in full flight,

Daft as it soundsnid never realised how odd she'd look hull wise as well,

Those scales would seem an odd choice given trumpeters 1/200+1/700 and Tamiyas 1/700, so one can hope

It does look very much like a nelson class funnel, at a push it could be Warspite but the shape of the superstructure behind has to be Nelson or Rodney, I'll confess I've been checking their Facebook feed ever since

I noticed Jadlam hobbies had Naiad available for pre-order now, the parts count alone indicates it'll likely be much better than their pretty poor offering of Marseillaise, hopefully they'll be some reviews soon, Sam

Hopefully he can pull it off, I'm always a little astounded that that government of a country with such rich maritime history don't actively support ideas like this,

Tiger was certainly a handsome ship and wouldn't be too large at just a smidge over 1m in 1/200, I mean thats obviously subjective Culloden continuing to take shape Jeffz in fact doesn't look like it'll be too long until your done,

Very nice, it's a big kit, I've got a later edition of it part complete someone gave me to finish,

A great build this Rob, really impressive detail and finish to it! The crew being on deck really highlights how exposed these ships were to the weather, with an ocean so vast I'd not want to be in the middle of it in something the size of these! chaps on them were certainly some of the most unsung service personnel of the war,

Beautifully done Bertie, she's a treat to look at!

Great build of an unlucky ship, as others have said the camo scheme looks great, impressively done by free hand as well,

Another all round great build Beefy! the model looks superb as does the seascape!

Another great build Jon, looks great in the macro and micro which is always impressive,

Thats a great build, very nicely presented model of a beautiful ship and even in 1:600 it shows her size,

Very very nicely done, very impressive, all very cleanly and crisply built! Rigging looks great as well, paint effects certainly bring out the detail on the hull as well!

Brilliant result, the weathering is very convincing and the detail level is very impressive. I'm glad you added more photos because they really show the efforts you've gone to!

Great result Beefy,

Hi All, very small update, I've been experimenting with forming the 'weld' lines on the hull, they were very prominent on the French ships pf the time but i feel what ive done is a bit too prominent, and will likely come off for a different solution or maybe just a thinner section half round strip, the degaussing cable is a spare from a second set for HMS hood and i believe fitted as part of her refit, there certainly seems to be something there after her refit from what i can tell that wasn't there previously, Another small correction, the hull 'drop' from the foredeck should be a right angle, not angled as per the kit, easy enough to fix, Lastly this one shows the odd hull shape about a quarter way back from her bow, apologies the picture is a bit out of focus, You can also just make out the the forward anchor was removed and the hawser plated over so that's been trimmed ready to fill, Thanks Sam