{"id":4588,"date":"2023-11-19T12:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T17:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:23:27","slug":"german-battleship-scharnhorst-1-500-scale-ww2-recognition-replica-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/german-battleship-scharnhorst-1-500-scale-ww2-recognition-replica-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"German battleship Scharnhorst 1\/500 scale ww2 recognition replica complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/KMS-Scharnhorst_complete.webp\" data-lbwps-width=\"1900\" data-lbwps-height=\"1068\" 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src=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2.webp 1900w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Scharnhorst_Blender_2-1200x675.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_battleship_Scharnhorst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scharnhorst<\/a> is complete, I&#8217;ve been able to take advantage of a relatively warm weather window and print the resin parts for Scharnhorst, <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/german-admiral-scheer-1-500-scale-ww2-recognition-replica-complete\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Scheer <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/10\/german-aircraft-carrier-graf-zeppelin-1-500-scale-recognition-style-model-completed-again\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"5425\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graf Zeppelin<\/a> (GZ is actually still printing, again&#8230;). While recreating these recognition replicas has been a blast, I&#8217;m finding that without an example in hand, it&#8217;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&#8217;s painful to stop, and retain the often inaccurate design elements of the actual recognition models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When I get all the ships completed I&#8217;ll likely make <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/usn-wwii-german-naval-recognition-set-3d-printed-in-1-500-scale\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"5505\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a project page to contain them all<\/a> but for now this post is it for Scharnhorst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update Aug. 15, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I just finished  recreating the entire USN WWII German Naval Recognition Set in 1.500 scale check out the results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/usn-wwii-german-naval-recognition-set-3d-printed-in-1-500-scale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"671\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"5509\" src=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-1024x671.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-1024x671.webp 1024w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-300x197.webp 300w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-768x503.webp 768w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-1536x1006.webp 1536w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-2048x1342.webp 2048w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/WWII_German_Naval_Recognition_Set_4-1200x786.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scharnhorst is complete, I&#8217;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&#8230;). While recreating these recognition replicas has been a blast, I&#8217;m finding that without an example in hand, it&#8217;s difficult to stick to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/19\/german-battleship-scharnhorst-1-500-scale-ww2-recognition-replica-complete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German battleship Scharnhorst 1\/500 scale ww2 recognition replica complete&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":77,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,17,25,26,18],"tags":[68,67,24,50,49,51,37],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blender","category-creality-ender-3-pro-3d-printer","category-elegoo-saturn","category-elegoo-saturn-3d-printer","category-warships","tag-1-500-scale","tag-battleship","tag-elegoo-saturn","tag-german-navy","tag-naval-recognition-model","tag-scharnhorst","tag-ww2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5612,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}