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Post by danny on Jan 8, 2009 22:46:41 GMT 1
I have just looked on kbismarck.com and noticed that on the bismarck not just the colourscheme's differ from period to period, but also some of the hardware installed on the ship itself.... for instance, during her sea trials the bismark had no rangefinders, no aft 10.5cm guns, and no aft Flakvierlings... around december 1940, the AA battery ( not the duracell one ) still wasn't completed... later, on the 21st of may 1941 all boats on the main deck and the main bow anchor were removed. after comparing colourscheme's, this one seems to be the only one that matches our model: www.kbismarck.com/bism40.gif ( copy paste, hotlinking prohibited...) it's the colourscheme from march to may 1941, which already has the right rangefinders, completed gun battery, and still has all the boats and the bow anchor... luckily this is the version I planned to make all along I hope you all won't get depressed or anything if it turns out your model has the "wrong" colourscheme source: www.kbismarck.com/drawings.html
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Post by pete on Jan 24, 2009 21:23:27 GMT 1
Hi Danny. like most warships, The bismarck that was launched was not the Bismarck that left Bergen. As launched it had a vertical bow, Anton Turret had rangefinders, later removed as the result of sea trials in the baltic. some equipment may not have been ready for her sea trials, hence the miising guns. I think we have two basic choices for our colour schemes; a. the baltic scheme which she wore all the way up to arriving in Bergen. b. The scheme he (German ships i believe were masculine) wore leaving Bergen, the stripes and dark grey patches overpainted light grey and leaving the white false 'bow wave'. After that, the sheme he wore when the british fleet caught up with him is purely conjecture.
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Post by nm on Jan 24, 2009 21:48:59 GMT 1
The scheme he (German ships i believe were masculine) wore leaving Bergen. I think I read somewhere (now there's an accurate citation) that Bismarck's captain decreed that a ship named after the Iron Chancellor could only be a He - and that its function supported that opinion. I don't think it applied to all German ships or warships. nm
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Post by Thymen on Jan 25, 2009 13:43:04 GMT 1
I read in Burkard von Müllenheim-Rechberg's book that when Captain Ernst Lindemann took command he declared the ship to be male for the reasons stated by NM, before that Bismarck was just like every other ship (very few exceptions besides) female.
Thymen
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Post by nm on Jan 25, 2009 21:38:19 GMT 1
That must be where I read it too.
nm
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