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I am currently building Trumpeters Hood considered the best plastic kit of hood on the market. As per my normal build program it began with a lot of research to allow me to detail For those of you building The hood at the moment look at the following link it has all you need to get her look correct including some last minute modifications that so far no model manufacturer has picked up!! http://www.hmshood.com/h...trumpeter/trumpeter.htm
If you can not find your answers there let me know I have a large selection of detail pics i can refer to.  “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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Hi Jase,
A great post and very interesting. I also found Hoods proposed refit a fascinating article. It makes you wonder, if Hood had been refitted and her armour, radar etc. upgraded, who would have won the encounter in the Denmark Strait? Would HMS Hood have faired any better in the battle with Bismarck?
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Great post Jase, thank you  MWG BUILD DIARIES: HMS VICTORY, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, SAN FRANCISCO II, HMS HOOD, HMS ENDEAVOUR LONGBOAT, HMS VICTORY X-SECTION, 007 DB5, NISSAN GTR, CUTTY SARK, RB7, AKAGI, BARK HMS ENDEAVOUR, HUMMER H1, MITSUBISHI ZERO.
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Silent_Running wrote:Hi Jase,
A great post and very interesting. I also found Hoods proposed refit a fascinating article. It makes you wonder, if Hood had been refitted and her armour, radar etc. upgraded, who would have won the encounter in the Denmark Strait? Would HMS Hood have faired any better in the battle with Bismarck? Not sure I can answer that question subjectively, as my Grandfather was on HMS Anthony supporting Hood when she sunk. However, Price of wales took an absolute pounding much more than is often admitted by the admiralty. Anthony escorted her back and my grandfather reliably tels me she was down in the water nearly to her deck. Now she was armoured up to the hilt! If we consider the condition of Bismarck as she is today despite the battering she got she is in remarkably fine condition. My bet is that Hood and POW would have engaged until they had to withdraw through damage if they had not got an advantage and then kept on skirmishing while the rest of the navy converged, eventually weight of numbers would have won the day. In a way I am glad history took the course it did, a prolonged battle could have ended up with my grandfather loosing his life... then who would have done the detail packs!!!  “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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Thanks for the information Jase. With your grandfather actually being present at the battle and hearing his description of what happened, that's the kind of history that you just can't buy or read about in books.
What your grandfather said about the Prince of Wales being so badly damaged and so low in the water that, the decks were nearly awash, again is something that isn't reported or written about. It makes you wonder though, what made the Bismarck so deadly? What was so special about this ship, that it reduces one of our newest and most heavily armoured battleships to a damaged hulk.
The Germans especially could not have predicted the outcome of the battle. I remember seeing a documentary about the battle, and they talked to some of Bismarck's former crew. One of them said that HMS Hood had such a fearsome reputation that all the Bismarck's war-games were based on fighting the Hood. And that, "when we learned that we would be going into action against HMS Hood, although we had supreme confidence in our ship, there was still a tight knot in our stomachs"
He said that "after the Hood blew up, although everyone was pleased that we had survived the encounter, and we had done our duty, there was no jubilation or celebration, because they were sailors like us and we knew the kind of death that awaited them." That last part really hit home when I saw it, you could kind of see in his eyes that he was still there.
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Silent_Running wrote:Thanks for the information Jase. With your grandfather actually being present at the battle and hearing his description of what happened, that's the kind of history that you just can't buy or read about in books.
What your grandfather said about the Prince of Wales being so badly damaged and so low in the water that, the decks were nearly awash, again is something that isn't reported or written about. It makes you wonder though, what made the Bismarck so deadly? What was so special about this ship, that it reduces one of our newest and most heavily armoured battleships to a damaged hulk.
The Germans especially could not have predicted the outcome of the battle. I remember seeing a documentary about the battle, and they talked to some of Bismarck's former crew. One of them said that HMS Hood had such a fearsome reputation that all the Bismarck's war-games were based on fighting the Hood. And that, "when we learned that we would be going into action against HMS Hood, although we had supreme confidence in our ship, there was still a tight knot in our stomachs"
He said that "after the Hood blew up, although everyone was pleased that we had survived the encounter, and we had done our duty, there was no jubilation or celebration, because they were sailors like us and we knew the kind of death that awaited them." That last part really hit home when I saw it, you could kind of see in his eyes that he was still there.
I talk to my grandfather regularly about the war I am seeing him next weekend although he lives a long way away. he herd the action over the tannoy system as they were behind hood. his brother was on the KGV when bismark was sunk I had his story published a few years ago unfortunatly he passed away last year. To answer your question the bismark had a more stable gun platform. she had a flat keel due to having to navigate shalow waters from her build yard coupled with a wide beam kept her stady under full broadside making her gunnery more accurate. My grandfather said that Hood rolled on wet greass!! her gunner was less effective as a result. no doubt hood and POW could have inflicted serous damage on bismark shame about the german looky hit. POW took a pounding because her guns kept siezing up she was still working up with cevilan fitters on board. sailors talk about loss of ships because loss of life is very close to where they could be. my grandfather talks about ships like they are people they all have personalities and reputations. last year i discoverd that one of his WW2 destroyrs is still in service!! he was maid up. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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Not sure if u guys have seen this but it's worth a look http://www.youtube.com/w...ure=youtube_gdata_playerCURRENT BUILDS
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Fabulous post Sean MWG BUILD DIARIES: HMS VICTORY, SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS, SAN FRANCISCO II, HMS HOOD, HMS ENDEAVOUR LONGBOAT, HMS VICTORY X-SECTION, 007 DB5, NISSAN GTR, CUTTY SARK, RB7, AKAGI, BARK HMS ENDEAVOUR, HUMMER H1, MITSUBISHI ZERO.
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[quote=S2ksean]Not sure if u guys have seen this but it's worth a look http://www.youtube.com/w...re=youtube_gdata_player[/quote] Fab thanks “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
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