Thank Youfor your quick reply
Hallo Barry,
thank you for your kind and quick reply.
The ships of the black swan class formed an own class in the federal german Navy, called Schulfregatte Klasse 138 (Schoolfrigate class 138).
As far as i know, their modification were of minor nature. The afterdeck was striped of its anti submarine weapons, therefore an additional deckhouse was erected for the accomodation and the education of young cadets.
I am a little busy these days but i try to send you some of the photos i already mentioned this weekend. There one can see quite good the modifications of the afterdeck.
For the moment a can send you a link with a picture of the graf spee.
It's a german site, but i think you recognize the black swan without problems
http://www.heimatsammlung.de/motiv_unter/schiffe_ab_03/images_01/graf-spree-535.jpg
There are quite few pictures of the german black swans in the net at all
But there is no overall view of the whole ship, just details.When i compare the pictures of your model with the photos of my father's ship, they haven't changed a lot.
Coming back to your model, you think it would be okay for you, when i would buy your kit and then modify it to my own purpose?
For me it would be almost a sacrilege reconstructing one of your beautiful models.
I think i know Wilfried from the german Kartonbau Forum. I could wait until he builds a german Black Swan. But as far as i know he just builds waterline models, and i prefer complete models.
They are quite more impressive.
May i ask you how long do you use computer for CAD. I've seen some of your reports in the Kartonbau forum using metasequioa, dating back in 2005?
Have you learned it by yourself, or did you do CAD professionally?
I'm trying hard to learn blender, but it takes a while.
But before i think about a possible reconstruction of your black swan i have to do my university exam. And if there's some time left, i try to improve my blender knowledge.
So i'm looking forward to see new models of you, get well soon.
Thomas