Interestingly enough, Scharnhorst did not have any yellow paint on the roofs of her turrets, and this was because yellow paint on the roofs was something Germany did when the ships were undergoing sea-trials and gunnery trials after being completed. Bismarck and Tirpitz, Gneisenau, all the Deutschlands, the Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers as well all had them during their trial periods after being completed and disregarded the paint on the roofs after they were handed over to the navy and got their proper wartime camos. Just before Scharnhorst and her sister Gneisenau had their bows rebuilt in 1940, they did have coloured turret roofs. IIRC Gneisenau had blue, and Scharnhorst was either red or infact yellow. But she did not have yellow turret roofs when she went down in 1943 against HMS Duke of York. Interesting that this model has the bow anchor removed, but that's also correct since it was removed during her 1942 refit because it caused excessive wash over the deck in high seas and also when the bow "plunged" into the ocean.

impressive, picked up quite a lot of tips for working on ship models. Thanks for the video.

An absolute work of art!

Great build great looking ship 👍.

Stumbled upon this video, and it was great!! I am in awe of your mastery of such small photoetch parts. I would have pulled my hair out, if I had any... Thank you for a great video!!!

Just one word.........amazing.

Excellent!!!

Awesome build! Hull camo is perfectly done!)

Mr. Assassin is back. Killed it!

Great Build, well done - okay not the right word - awesome done

I will use this as a reference for making Gneisenau Thanks for the great video!

Nice work! I have mine on order.

Looks awesome! So much better than my Tamiya 1/700 waterline Scharnhorst.

Superb build in this absolutely tiny scale! :)

Awesome build! Flyhawk totally rocks! and your skill too ;)

Really impressed with your work, top stuff 😎👍

Great work. I can highly recommend the Bismarck and Hood Flyhawk 1/700 scale models as well, especially the 'deluxe' versions which come with the extra photoetch.

Nice work and commentary.

OUTSTANDING work, museum quality in my opinion!!! What a fantastic kit.

Great video, nice work!

Great work!

Amazing build!

You are one of the masters at building ships even though you say you have no experience in it . It all seems so easy even though I know it isn't. and the way you present it with your jokes makes it even more interesting to watch. Good work, I hope to see more of that in the future but in 1/350 scale or maybe 1/200 😉😃

Great work

Very good work indeed. The turret tops and swastikas were for identification to own airforces. During the Norwegian campaign in 1940, British ships began copying the colour of the turret tops to confuse Luftwaffe pilots. By comparison, in WW1 German battleships and battlecruisers used dark grey turret tops with white circles.

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A 1/700 scale Arado 196?? I can barely cope with 1/72! Incredible job!! That deck sticker really does add a huge amount, but all that etch in the kit too.

Impressive 👏👏👏

Loved the Vid and your humour.....giggled along with you as it played! 🤪 Flyhawk....say no more! Best thing to happen to Ship kits in ages....yes, I have a fair old stash of them now! 😜👍🏻👍🏻 Have a go at their 1/72 King Tiger? It’s a great little kit if you’re into Armour!

Very nice job ..

In the typical Atlantic weather the ship itself would be hard to spot from above, let alone the paint work. The British pilots couldn't locate the Bismarck for days, despite that they knew where to look.

Really great work! Flyhawk kit really tortures some people but they made the best 1/700 model ship kits so far. You can try to add some welding line details since it is a full hull version.

Troppo BELLA 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great!

The swastika markings were air recognition markings. The Regina Marina had red and white "candy strips" on the bow and stern. Air recognition was a big problem. Remember the HMS Sheffield (British heavy crusier) was attacked by Swordfish torpedo planes because they thought she was the Bismarck. Luckily no torpedoes hit home.

hello... new to model ship building... i have been modeling N scale railroad for 30 years... now i want to try my hand at military ship building...i am modeling 1/700 & going to do my version of the USS Saratoga in 1968/69 with it's support ships... you did an awesome job on this entire project.. BTW i did sub.. thx 4 sharing... vinny...aka da cuzzz

The yellow paint on top of the main gun turrets, as well as the bow and stern swastikas were meant as a friend recognition for the Luftwaffe while in friendly waters. These recognition features would be removed, covered or painted over whenever the Kriegsmarine ships sailed outside the areas covered by the Luftwaffe ;)

I think FlyHawk make the best 1/700 scale. Unfortunately my eyes struggle with this scale... Nice video and build 👍🤔

very nice work! i am retired now and just getting back to the hobby, i have the 1/700 iowa and went ahead and also bought the wood deck and am looking for any tips on laying this decking down so i do not end up with a small pile of decking!!

The flags were for aircraft Identification.

May I ask what brand of wooden deck do you use? I'm looking to use

I’m guessing the deck was Shipyardworks?

What battleship ll come next😁 i have Bismarck a lv5 from revell but still havent got to it😅

I am working on this kit right now. I am struggling with the photo etch guide! Utterly horrible! Flyhawk really needs to up their game in that department. I am just trying my best to muddle through but other than that the kit is beautiful! I have their Bismarck deluxe waiting after I finish Scharnhorst.

Where do you get your Flyhawk Models? I tired amazon but had gotten the orders canceled twice

Schon komisch. In vielen Videos geht es nur um "Bismarck"hier und "Yamato "dort. An die anderen grossen Schiffe wie die Gneisenau, dieGraf Spee und ebend die Scharnhorst denken nur wenige.

Have You Done KMS TIRPITZ 🤔. To Bad There's No More Metal One's 🤬. I Only Want Metal One's. I Want KMS SCHARNHORST,GNEISENAU,BISMARCK,TIRPITZ,PRINZ EUGEN

No es un acorazado leches!!!! Es un crucero acorazado que es distinto panda de burros!!!.

I love to smell da glue mostly