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SMS Derfflinger

One of two models Christian Höltge has built commemorating the 100 years anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Christen shares a little about his build with us, along with some fantastic pictures of his diorama.

The Derfflinger was the lead ship of the Derfflinger class battlecruisers. They where the first armed with 30,5 cm guns. She was launched on the 14.03.2013. The commissioning was in September of 1914. She took part in all major engagements in the North Sea and was badly damaged during the Battle of the Doggerbank and Jutland. After the Jutland Battle, Derfflinger was rebuilt with a new tripod mast.

The kit is from Flyhawk and has all necessary parts for a nice model. It closely depicts the ship during before the battle of Jutland., however, at my depicted timeframe, there where no rear 8.8 Flak guns as in the kit; 8.8 SK were mounted. I scratch-built a new gun shield. My model depicts the Derfflinger during summer 1915 when trails where taken with lifting a plane on board. Luckily there was a plane, a Friedrichshafen F33, is included in the kit. For my Derfflinger, I also used the extra photo etch parts from Flyhawk. The set gives the little extra in some places. The Torpedoboot is also from Flyhawk and was borrowed from their Lützow kit.

A really nice model by it self, I painted the Derfflinger with Lifecolors for the hull and Vallejo's for the small parts. The Torpedoboot is painted with Tamiya Nato black. The water is made with water effects from Vallejo and for the ship's crew, I used the really nice figures from Shelf Oddity.

Model Shipwrights would like the thank Christian Höltge for providing us with his feature of the 1/700 scale SMS Derfflinger