Scharnhorst is complete, I’ve been able to take advantage of a relatively warm weather window and print the resin parts for Scharnhorst, Scheer and Graf Zeppelin (GZ is actually still printing, again…). While recreating these recognition replicas has been a blast, I’m finding that without an example in hand, it’s difficult to stick to the original designs as seen from pictures on the web. I inevitably need actual pictures of the real ships to fill in the blanks and when I start designing from them, it’s painful to stop, and retain the often inaccurate design elements of the actual recognition models.
When I get all the ships completed I’ll likely make a project page to contain them all but for now this post is it for Scharnhorst.
Update Aug. 15, 2025
I just finished recreating the entire USN WWII German Naval Recognition Set in 1.500 scale check out the results.
