Modelling > Extended Service Life and/or Back dated GB
Finished Late: USS Yorck, ex-Hochseeflotte battlecruiser, Shipbucket style
dy031101:
Yorck class battlecruisers were Imperial Germany's response to Britain's Repulse and Renown. The class sports the same main guns as the Bayern class battleships. Three were ordered as far as I know, but none was completed by the end of the World War I in real-life.
Since I'm likely too slow to come up with a story on how one could have been completed, surrendered to the US, escaped the fate of being scrapped or expended as a gunnery target that might have resulted from Inter-War naval treaties, and been pressed into service against the Japanese in World War II, I'll just settle with "Americanizing" a German-built battlecruiser to a level serviceable in late-WWII.
Further details to come in due course. Comments and suggestions are welcomed.
finsrin:
Looked at Yorck class battlecruisers drawing. Appears closer to WW2 designs than WW1. Like the concept.
Is there a Yorck kit or you have another kit in mind to start from ?
dy031101:
--- Quote from: finsrin on April 27, 2015, 03:22:40 PM ---Looked at Yorck class battlecruisers drawing. Appears closer to WW2 designs than WW1. Like the concept.
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The primary reasons why I chose Yorck are that it's got the same gun as the Bayern class, its speed is on the high side, and faster ships got the spotlight in WWII rather than looks (because modernisation will include reconstruction) ;D
--- Quote from: finsrin on April 27, 2015, 03:22:40 PM ---Is there a Yorck kit or you have another kit in mind to start from ?
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A quick visit at Google nets me this, but I don't know for sure.
I've unfortunately gotta stick with Shipbucket format for the foreseeable future.
Cliffy B:
There's a new plastic kit of the Derflingers from Flybawk in 1/700. Not the same hull but could serve as a basis. I also discovered a few old IJN BBs are shockingly closer to Imperial Germen BBs in shape and size. Scratch building would be required but it would be easier then the expensive resin route.
Volkodav:
Love the later Imperial German Battle Cruisers, better balanced and protected than the RN equivalents and even toyed with a post WWI war prize allocation to the Commonwealth and a different Washington treaty, perhaps one that adds battle cruisers as a different category to battleships with their own tonnage limits. It would all rely on the RN being able to prevent the scuttling of the German fleet though, otherwise there would be no prize ships to allocate.
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