Friday, August 28, 2020

No Meeting September 2020

Due to the covid-19 pandemic there has been no word from the Nepean Museum about availability of their facilities for a meeting. There will be no September meeting for the Capital Marine Modellers' Guild. Should the facilities become available for future meetings that will be announced on this site.


TIRPITZ (1:2000 scale)

This is the extremely tiny 1:2000 scale tiny model of the nazi scum battle cruiser/ battleship TIRPITZ which was meant to compete with the growing French navy. This is another in my series of fun and fast build COVID-19 models. I received it as a gift and the lockdown was a great opportunity to get it off the shelf, painted, rigged, and out of here. It was basically a two day build just for fun. The kit (Heller #052) has 46 parts. The model is a tiny 12 cm in length. The real ship was 241.6 m. The base is balsa wood and the water/waves are gesso painted with blue and white.

 The actual ship was launched by Germany in 1939 and commissioned into the navy in 1941. The only real task for the ship was as a raider against convoys moving towards Murmansk and Arkangelsk in the USSR, but even then it only managed two missions. It spent most of its operational life essentially in hiding -- blanketed in artificial fog, or covered by a forest of trees to evade British heavy bombers! Tirpitz was eventually sunk by RAF Lancaster bombers on 12 November 1944. More than a thousand crewmen died in the explosions and capsizing.

John Clearwater

nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ

nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ
nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ

nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ
nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ

nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ
nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ

nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ
nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ

nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ
nazi scum battle cruiser TIRPITZ