{"id":5320,"date":"2025-07-30T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2026-01-22T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:14:58","slug":"kormoran-german-ww2-auxiliary-cruiser-recognition-style-model-3d-printed-in-1-500-scale-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/30\/kormoran-german-ww2-auxiliary-cruiser-recognition-style-model-3d-printed-in-1-500-scale-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kormoran, German WW2 Auxiliary Cruiser, Recognition Style Model 3D printed in 1\/500 Scale \u2013 Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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OK, “Completed” may not be the right word, this model is definitely completed but while building it, I discovered my Kormoran design and any future assemblies of it, will benefit greatly from a few changes, more on that in just a bit. Here’s a Wikipedia link: German Auxiliary Cruiser Kormoran<\/a>, if you’re not familiar with her impressive history it’s definitely worth a read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The images above are basically of a beta build. The top 6 are of the completed model, the lower three are of the assembled, unpainted ship and two shots of the Ender 3 Pro FDM hull parts. There are no decent pictures of the resin print outs. If you’ve read my Nuremburg post<\/a>, you may recall I’d discovered what seemed to be a dead spot on my Elegoo Saturn. I needed to rearrange, re-support and re-slice, Nuremburg’s parts in ChituBox to avoid it, in order to get perfect prints. Well… I’d already had Kormoran’s resin parts arranged, supported, sliced and ready to go… So I rolled the dice… and lost, a couple times. Of course it was the superstructure that was over the dead spot and it failed. I ended up just printing two superstructure only parts on either side of the build plate, avoiding the Saturn’s now confirmed center dead spot, both printed perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between failed prints and the final superstructure print, I had all the parts needed (and then some) to complete this model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But as mention above change is need, The torpedo bays in the FDM parts were a bear to get the supports out of, I ended up considerably damaging the hull around the openings doing so – that’s changed to now have separate roof pieces. The amidship gun covers needed reworking as did the bow deck cover over the forward guns. The mast and wench parts were a bear to assemble, they’ve been changed to what I hope is an easier to work with design, and many, many, other small tweaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that said and flaws aside, I do like the looks of her and think this beta build shows potential. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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July 30, 2025 OK, “Completed” may not be the right word, this model is definitely completed but while building it, I discovered my Kormoran design and any future assemblies of it, will benefit greatly from a few changes, more on that in just a bit. Here’s a Wikipedia link: German Auxiliary Cruiser Kormoran, if you’re … Continue reading “Kormoran, German WW2 Auxiliary Cruiser, Recognition Style Model 3D printed in 1\/500 Scale \u2013 Completed”<\/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":24,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,25,26,18],"tags":[68,47,24,81,50,49,37],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creality-ender-3-pro-3d-printer","category-elegoo-saturn","category-elegoo-saturn-3d-printer","category-warships","tag-1-500-scale","tag-commerce-raider","tag-elegoo-saturn","tag-german-auxiliary-cruiser-kormoran","tag-german-navy","tag-naval-recognition-model","tag-ww2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","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=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5386,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions\/5386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scalemodelguy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}