Nov 12th, 2014: Tirpitz

[xoxoxoBruce]

Germany built the battleship Bismarck to be the be-all, end-all, of kick-ass navel power. Of course this was mid '30s before they realized that airpower would become king. They also built a second Bismarck Class battleship named the Tirpitz. It really didn't do a lot of combat, mostly hanging out in Norway, being a "fleet in being", which hangs around it's front porch daring anybody to sail down it's street.

The trouble is you never know when he'll come down off that porch so you tie up several of your ships to hang around his neighborhood, in case he does. That got old so a couple of Lancaster Bombers carrying 12,000 pound(5400kg) "tallboy" bombs, put an end to the Tirpitz in late 1944.

But someone recreated the Tirpitz out of 71,000 wooden matches in 1:125 scale.





Here's some detailed pictures.