Model Forum / General / Models / May 2006

Hello Fellows!

It works :)

After three less satisfying experiments its the fourth run which seems to
come out nicely: Convertign a cardboard-model into a regular
wood-and-glassfiber-model.
In particular I am at the moment working on a 1:200 Tirpitz, which I want to
modify heavily  so that it looks like it "could" have looked like when it
wouldn't had been deconstructed in the Norwegian fjord it was sunk in 1944,
but instead survived the war and would have been either given back to
germany later on or maybe been taken into use by another nation.

I'm just wondering if I should remove the DORA turret and replace it with an
helicopter-lift or with a on-deck set of hangars for the heli's? And, if I
should place the radar-mast on the place of the rear or the forward
antenna-mast. Oh, and if to remove the four old aircraft-hangars  and place
a battery of smart-weapon-boxes, such as Cruise-Missle-launchers..

You all are welcome to make suggestions on how the "lonely queen of the
north" would be looking, including painting, when refitted as part of EU
peacekeeping-forces.

But back to my inital topic:
Do you think it's usefull making photos and put them on a website as a kind
of step-by-step instruction for others wanting to convert one of the easily
obtainable and cheap cardboard-models of "their" nations armoured behemoths
into a fully operational wood-and-glassfiber RC-model?

USA: GPM / Halinski / ??? : Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri
France: GPM/ Halinski / ???: Richelieu
Italy: GPM / Halinski / ???: Roma, Conte Cavour, ...
Great Britain: GPM / Halinski / ???: King George IV, Hood, ...
Germany: GPM / Halinski / ???: Bismark, Tirpitz
Japan: GPM / Halisnki / ???: Yamato, Musashi
and so on, and so on....

Ideas, Suggestions and general Feedback muchly appreciated!