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court orchard wrote:Just for information.
The Book 'Anatomy of the Ship - Bismarck', which has been very difficult to find and has been offered for absurd amounts of money 2nd hand, is being reissued.
It's a paperback version and is due out later this month (about the 20th, I think), it's currently being discounted to about £20 and is available for preorder on Amazon, Book Depositry etc. I have this book in hardback.This would explain the emails I kept getting from Amazon offering to buy it back. Kind Regards Nigel
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NMBROOK wrote:court orchard wrote:Just for information.
The Book 'Anatomy of the Ship - Bismarck', which has been very difficult to find and has been offered for absurd amounts of money 2nd hand, is being reissued.
It's a paperback version and is due out later this month (about the 20th, I think), it's currently being discounted to about £20 and is available for preorder on Amazon, Book Depositry etc. I have this book in hardback.This would explain the emails I kept getting from Amazon offering to buy it back. Kind Regards Nigel It was for a while on Amazon for £500 as a 2nd Hand Copy,  
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Redrilling the GHG Passive Sonar Array Pontos in their PE Set provide a Jig for a more correct Array of Sensors. THe Trumpeter Array is a very Uniform 'U' Pattern whereas in reality the Sensors where much more random. My understanding is that they were angled in different directions as pairs of Sensors were compared Aurally to pick up minute differences in sound beats and give some directionality. They where also grouped into clusters at different frequencies. There is a picture of a 60 Microphone Array, with 6 different Frequency Clusters, which is reproduced on Model Warship on the definitive 1/100 build of 109. This more Random Array is also shown on the Goralski Drawings. The more random arrangement would also avoid resonance interference from the Ships own noise. Firstly the existing dimples were filled and sanded with Tamiya Putty. Then the Template was taped in placed and 60 x 0.65mm holes drilled on each side using a finger chuck. I drilled them all the way through to get a better definition.    
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Wow Andy,this is astounding attention to detail and historical accuracy.I wouldn't like to begin to contemplate how many of these little 'revisions' you have to carry out in view of the extensive selection of upgrade kits are using.
Kind Regards Nigel
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Next I am fitting Brass Bezels to each of the 122 GHG (Gruppenhorchgerät) Microphones. For this I am using Albion Alloys 0.4mm Bore Brass Tube with an OD of 0.6mm, which I have cut into 3mm lengths. A useful tip for cutting very fine tube without crushing it, is to roll it a few times under a sharp scalpel blade, whilst applying a very light pressure. Just be careful to avoid the pieces pinging off too far. I glued these into the holes with thick CA. Then ground them back flush with the surface of the Plastic. and polished them off. Parts used to date 505 P.S. I 've just noticed on the photo that one Bezel has pushed in a fraction, so I'll have to replace that one.      
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Andy this is staggering attention to detail  I may be wrong,but I have a suspicion your tube diameter quoted is wrong You are quite right in what you say.With complex builds best to focus on the area at hand and not look at the bigger picture  .There is a build of this kit on MSW,and the builder Chanell has cut squares off plastic out around each porthole and replaced with plasticard of scale thickness and redrilled the porthole!!!!!Well worth a look his/her? build is in the normal kit build log section Kind Regards Nigel
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NMBROOK wrote:Andy this is staggering attention to detail I may be wrong,but I have a suspicion your tube diameter quoted is wrong You are quite right in what you say.With complex builds best to focus on the area at hand and not look at the bigger picture .There is a build of this kit on MSW,and the builder Chanell has cut squares off plastic out around each porthole and replaced with plasticard of scale thickness and redrilled the porthole!!!!!Well worth a look his/her? build is in the normal kit build log section Kind Regards Nigel Ooops.... a couple of missing decimal points there  Duly corrected, thanks Nigel  I have seen Channels build, but some time ago, I got the impression that he'd lost interest after all that Porthole Bashing, so I stopped checking for progress.
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certainly makes a difference to the look of the hydrophones. Top Job “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Have you seen this? http://northstarmodels.c...or-set-1200-1300-scale/
and this (the first item) http://www.squadron.com/category-s/2718.htm“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Hi Andy,there was a gap in updates,but the build is in paint now.
Kind Regards Nigel
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 Looks great Andy  Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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[quote=jase]Have you seen this? http://northstarmodels.c...or-set-1200-1300-scale/
and this (the first item) http://www.squadron.com/category-s/2718.htm[/quote] Hi Jase, I've got a few of the North Star 1/200 figures, in Summer Uniform (they are also available in Winter Uniform) these are all in attention poses, I don't think the working crew have been released yet or not that I've seen. These are going to be challenging to paint, to say the least. I'm currently working on my 1/72 Cannon Crews for the X-Section and thats hard enough even under maximum magnification. I like the signal flags, I hadn't seen those before, they'll brighten up the Grey Behemoth  
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I've just ordered these, to add to my Bismarck Box. https://www.whiteensignmodels.co...6630/20317/#.UjGOYBb8X8sThanks to Jase for the Heads Up.
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nice find, dont know if alied and axis used different flags? “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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jase wrote:nice find, dont know if alied and axis used different flags? Thats an interesting question and the Answer is Yes and No. The Trumpeter set is USN, but a lot of the Flags for the Kreigsmarine are the same, but used for different letters, so Anton(KM) = Victor(USN), Bruno(KM) = Fox(USN), Dora(KM) = 3(USN), etc. So there should be enough there to say something. The RN, RCN and RAN had yet another set, with some flags the same, but again different meanings.
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Well i am learning something there cheers andy “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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ANCHOR CHAIN In my never ending search to produce the ultimate Bismarck (maybe in the next few months when Pontos finally release their advanced set, I can draw a line, well maybe a dotted line ) I have come across some 3D printed Anchor chain. This is produced down to 13.5LPI, which is the correct scale for the 1/200 Bismarck and other 1/200 Ships. I had previously found some 10LPI (which is confusingly listed as 12LPI) in metal, whilst this is quite small it is really too bulky to look entirely right. The 3D printed chain is spot on, it's disadvantages are that it's quite fragile (which wouldn't really matter on a static model), it also would need painting whereas the metal chain could probably could be blackened. Really when compared side by side the LPI does look much better, but what really stands out is the thickness and width of the links. The chains are are available on the US Ebay, and are very cheap at $7 a length, the postage looks off putting, but he offers a much cheaper option, which I think was only about $7 as well. The only problem, is that the 13.5LPI sells out almost immediately it is in stock. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Model-S...ize-models-/301173646591It is certainly interesting how this technology is starting to deliver real benefits.  
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