{"id":5137,"date":"2025-01-01T01:56:52","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T06:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?p=5137"},"modified":"2025-12-25T08:38:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T13:38:26","slug":"german-ww2-recognition-model-fleet-in-1-500-scale-nearly-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/german-ww2-recognition-model-fleet-in-1-500-scale-nearly-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"German WW2 Recognition Model Fleet in 1\/500 Scale, Nearing Completion"},"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\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9.webp\" data-lbwps-width=\"1920\" data-lbwps-height=\"1080\" data-lbwps-srcsmall=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9-300x169.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" loading=\"lazy\" data-id=\"5143\" src=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9.webp 1920w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/German_500_scale_ww2_recognition_fleet_x9-1200x675.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\">I took a long design and printing break during the second half 2024, but I&#8217;ve recently jumped back in, and am now working on wrapping up the Blender work on my 1\/500 scale, WW2 German navy recognition set. I&#8217;ve just added the light cruisers Nurenburg, K\u00f6ln, Emden and the destroyer Maass (Maasz?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m now thinking I&#8217;ll be done with the blender work for this project after designing: destroyer Narvic, torpedo boat Jaguar, pre-dreadnought battleship Schleswig-Holstein, and the Auxiliary Cruiser Kormoran, I&#8217;m also still on the fence about adding one more destroyer: Z28. I really do enjoy these fast, simple projects!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps when they are done, I&#8217;ll start a <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/new-project-time\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4748\">meatier subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Update June 10, 2025<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Blender work on my German Naval Recognition Set is now complete &#8211; the hard part to follow.<\/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&#8217;ve finished printing and building the entire USN WWII German Naval Recognition Set (and then some) in 1\/500 scale. The picture link below takes you to the project page with info and images for all the models in the set.<\/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>I took a long design and printing break during the second half 2024, but I&#8217;ve recently jumped back in, and am now working on wrapping up the Blender work on my 1\/500 scale, WW2 German navy recognition set. I&#8217;ve just added the light cruisers Nurenburg, K\u00f6ln, Emden and the destroyer Maass (Maasz?). I&#8217;m now thinking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/german-ww2-recognition-model-fleet-in-1-500-scale-nearly-complete\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;German WW2 Recognition Model Fleet in 1\/500 Scale, Nearing Completion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","iawp_total_views":48,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,18],"tags":[68,50,49,37],"class_list":["post-5137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blender","category-warships","tag-1-500-scale","tag-german-navy","tag-naval-recognition-model","tag-ww2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137","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=5137"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5943,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5137\/revisions\/5943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}