This is the superstructure of the Scharnhorst that I will order later on from Strike Models. I think it looks great!
As soon as I get a response from Stephen from Strike Models saying he has the machine that will cut the decks of the Scharnhorst finished, I will order my decks. So it's pretty much a waiting game right now.
Strike had a different hull mold for scharnhorst than the one yours came out of, hope the decks will fit it.
So here is what you guys have probably been waiting for. The hull! So I took some photos of the hull with some of the plans. Here they are!!! The above two were random shots of the hull and the plans together. The above photo is a photo that I took from the stern of my hull, and shows the midsection and bow on my hull. The last photo is of the bottom of my hull. The tanish spots look like part of the fiberglass mold to me, but it would be good to know if it is something to worry about. Thanks!
Its just the fiberglass of the hull without the gelcoat (the black outer skin is gelcoat, it adds nothing structural). Most of these hulls are done in 2 part molds and sometimes you get a visible seam as a result, looks like that was either cleaned up here and it took some of the gelcoat with or for some reason the gelcoat stuck more to the mold than the rest of the hull. No biggie, you'll be painting it anyways.
So since I can't really do anything else on the Scharnhorst, I decided to figure out which camouflage to put on the 'Black Beast' (thanks, Beaver!). I found a forum on a website (LINK HERE). These incredible works are definitley not mine, and they were made with talent by Antonio Bonomi and Andrea Toller. Here is the first one, which I per like a lot: Here is the next one, with the classic red turret tops: For a little while in 1940, she wore the famed Baltic Camouflage: She wore this during the Channel Dash: And finally, she wore this in her final year, 1943: I am having trouble deciding which one to put on my ship. It would be nice to hear what you guys think on this. One more thing: Antonio or Andrea, if one of you or both of you guys are reading this, I would just like to say that your work is astounding, and has been a great help, I don't know how you did them, but they look beautiful. Thanks!
Simplest way is to work in layers and mask off what you want to keep of the previous layer. That or have a steady hand and a good bruah
