hmmm this should be interesting. are you gonna do it up as the germans did 'camo paint' on their ships or as the book shows ya?

i wanted to try the paint job http://www.allwoodships.com/MilitaryShips/Battleships/Image/German-Bismarck,page.jpg like that

ah very nice *nods* I only ask about the camo because the Germans had a genius way to confuse the Allies fleets with a simple paint scheme they did. do you know what it was? *is curious and don't know if shi should explain.*

im not shure which one your talking about, but i know there was a few, the one im mostly thinking of is making the ship look shorter then it actually is, so it looks like a prinz eugene class cruiser rather then a big ass battleship, the other is a bunch of black and white stripes, though i think that ones american.....ok im confusing myself, please im willing to listen if your willing to explain

*giggles an smiles* you were pretty much correct in a way on the first one making the ship appear smaller. but it wasn't done to make people mistake one ship for another. what the Germans did was basically paint the skyline on each end of the boat a little bit towards the centre but not to much. the effect of doing this was because 9/10 times people would spot the other using Binoculars it would create an optical illusion to that spotter. making the spotter give the wrong distance coordinates to the rest of the crew so if the Allies gunners fired first they would over shoot the target, or as it more often the case the crew would react to the coordinates by driving closer to the German ship thinking it was out of gun range when in fact it wasn't and would no doubt very soon begin to shoot at the Allies.

as i said :) somewhat of a genius idea.

very much so ^^ *hugs* thanks for the info, im either going to do the stripes, the smaller ship sillouette a combonation or no camo at all, make it look like it did at its commissioning

i only really know about this because a friend went to a painting contest for WW2 stuff with some WW2 vets as the judges. he one first place because of him painting the boat with that camo on it and one of the judges happened to be a Canadian navy survivor who fought against a boat using that camo design on it. and your more then welcome for the info glad i can help i suppose but hey i wish you luck with the project.

hope i finish it XD

heres me cheering ya on!

I'd have the guns at different elevations, but maybe not so dramatic of them. You know the Prinz Eugen? I've actually stood on her. She is sunk in Kwajalein lagoon with her props sticking out and I've stood on her hull.

And here she is.

http://www.williamson-labs.com/imag.....verted-520.jpg

The paint job looks much more smoother. :3