D.K.M. Tirpitz 1942

Project Description

The D.K.M. Tirpitz was the sister ship to the D.K.M. Bismarck these were the two most powerful battleships ever built in Europe and the most heavily armoured. While Tirpitz never destroyed another ship in a traditional gun fight she was responsible for the complete destruction of PQ18 a convoy which had been misinformed that she was sailing to attack them; the reality was she never sailed but the convoy was scattered and destroyed by aircraft.

Tirpitz struck fear into allied sailors and her existence alone could do immense harm to the allied war effort. In 1944 she was eventually bombed and sunk by tall boy bombs in Tromso fjord. The model represents the Tirpitz in her 1942 dazzle paint scheme I have displayed her in the traditional builders model style; full hull on a pedestal base.

The number of parts on this extremely complex model is staggering the anti aircraft guns alone cover almost every available space on the superstructure and required a huge amount of work to accurately represent them. This model received a bronze medal at the world show in 2012.