RogerF

As a new member of this forum I am seeing these photographs for the first time. The level of workmanship in this model is quite stunning. I kept checking back to top of the first page to make sure I hadn't read the scale wrongly. No, I wasn't mistaken - 1/700. Flyhawk do produce some amazingly detailed kits at 1/700 but you guys have turned that kit into a work of art. I have KM Bismarck and HMS Hood from Flyhawk in 1/700 but my efforts will come nowhere near this level of perfection. Master builders indeed gentlemen. Kind regards Roger

Hi Jeff, I picked the 1/700 scale because the Flyhawk stuff is so beautifully detailed and I just don't have any room for anything bigger. Although I've got all the available upgrades for Flyhawk's Bismarck and Hood, my initial experience with the PE has been very sobering. The brass PE sheets are just 0,13mm thick and it's so easy to break or bend bits while separating the part from the sheet. I am seriously considering adding just a few of the upgrade parts:- Artillery barrels, turned, brass mast, all the railings (a must!) and the wooden deck. But, we'll see!

Wow - UK, Canada, Germany, and Australia. Thanks for the welcome chaps. Tübingen mmmmm... I lived in and around Stuttgart between 11970 and 1984 and visited Tübingen on many occasions.

I think I can follow your sentiments about ships that were sunk Graham, but Hood sailed in that fit and configuration during 1941 and was only sunk when she came up against Bismarck but it's each to his own of course especially if you want an earlier configuration as well. That said, I own both Hood and Bismarck 1/700 kits from Flyhawk with upgrades and wooden decks and the attention to, and the level of, detail is by far the best I've seen on any kit anywhere and from anyone - at this or any other scale. But as Jamie from Sovereign says: it's simply the best Hood kit there is and as historically accurate as it is possible to be and those were my reasons for buying both kits - Bismarck first (but not yet started) then Hood which I just had to have.

Hi there guys and gals, I'm a 72 year old Brit who has lived in Germany since 1970. I started building models around the age of 8. Our primary school teacher decided to run a model aircraft competition the only rule being that the kit must not cost more than three shillings! I chose a Focke Wulf 190D from Frog - remember the old Frog kits?! I actually won the competition but I think the fact that I was the only entrant to have painted his model weighed heavily in my favour. I went on to model boats which I hoped to make R/C but that didn't happen due to lack of funds, the available R/C when I started was all valve driven! A second hand Keil Kraft Vosper Crash Tender powered by Frog 2,5cc diesel engine was my pride and joy until I left school. In the 80s I raced 1/12 electric cars and finished third in the German finals in 1982. I entered the first 2 ever held European championships for 1/12 electric electrics - getting nowhere before giving up the hobby. Now retired I'm back to plastic kits and have a number of kits in my stash to keep me occupied: A 1/700 Flyhawk Bismarck with full upgrades and wooden deck, various cars and planes but I recently started to build Flyhawk's latest offering, HMS Hood 1941, also in 1/700 scale together with upgrades, wooden deck and Flyhawk stand (a very nice stand to complement an exceptionally fine and detailed model). I hope to get to know a few of you and your current and past models so if any of the above is of any interest them feel free to reply here or PM me. Kind regards Roger