Deutschland class Battleship conversion to 1908 layout

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February 23, 2022
Dry fit of the kit to work out what needs changing
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February 23, 2022
My scratch and cast funnels together with the two from the Trumpeter kit
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February 23, 2022
Creating a mould of the funnel from Blue Stuff
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February 23, 2022
A Blue Stuff mould of the kits funnel halves
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February 23, 2022
Using Tamiya UV reactive putty as a moulding medium
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February 23, 2022
Pressing the cured putty out of my Blue Stuff mould
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February 23, 2022
The cast funnel halves cleaned up and ready for cementing
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February 23, 2022
Casting extra funnels from a Blue Stuff moulding
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February 23, 2022
Scratching a funnel
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February 23, 2022
My scratch funnel dry fit for comparison
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February 23, 2022
The 1908 deck kit part showing what needs to be cut away from the 1935 superstructure
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February 23, 2022
All my funnels for evaluation
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February 26, 2022
Getting ready to cut down the superstructure
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February 26, 2022
Deck removal in progress
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February 26, 2022
Superstructure cut away from aft plus 1935 deck cut down and reshaped to fit as lower aft deck for 1908 version.
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February 26, 2022
Test fit of new scratch deck from the underside of the superstructure
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February 26, 2022
Deck fits well into cut down superstructure
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February 26, 2022
Clamping and gluing supports ready for new deck part
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February 26, 2022
Final cut down superstructure with 1935 upper deck used to make a 1908 lower aft deck.
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February 26, 2022
Dry fit with funnels to see how all scratch parts look together with newly added gun shields.

Commentaires

12 23 February 2022, 20:47

Martin von Schreckenstein
love the idea. great build

6 March 2022, 21:35

Harry Houdini
Thanks… was a challenge but less expensive than buying the kit I wanted after I got this one for half price.

7 March 2022, 00:14

Ben M
Watching

7 March 2022, 00:24

Harry Houdini
You can watch the conversion on Youtube Youtube Video

7 March 2022, 00:27

Sy Bar
Loving your builds, great mix of types and not the run of mill subjects.

Regards to Bask too

7 March 2022, 09:39

Jv
Taking a seat this looks very interesting

7 March 2022, 10:37

Johne 69
I will be watching too

7 March 2022, 10:58

Harry Houdini
Thanks Guys… more soon but right now I am dealing with the mess after the unprecedented floods in Brisbane. We had a metre of rain in less than a week and the river rose up to 4m flooding a lot of the city.

7 March 2022, 20:01

Sy Bar
Sounds like you need to build 1:1 scale ships!

Hope you and yours are ok and damage is minimal

7 March 2022, 22:52

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I am taking my Trumpeter Schleswig-Holstein 1935 kit and converting it to the Deutschland 1908 version using the spare parts already in the kit plus some scratch building.

Deutschland Battleship 1908 conversion

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1:350 Schleswig-Holstein Battleship 1935 Wooden Deck for Trumpeter kit #05354 (ArtwoxModel AWBW10011)

1:350 DKM Schleswig-Holstein (Eduard 53245)

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