Graf Zeppelin WIP

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

Hey MarineC. stop drooling on my shoes

 

[MarineCorps]

Hey MarineC. stop drooling on my shoes

My jaw was dropping. I wasn't drooling Now I am.

 

[W.i.n.t.e.r]

out of curiosity Wyrmshadow: Th German M boat- what is it ??

 

[MarineCorps]

I was wondering that myself. Looks like a WW1 era boat. Or turn of the century. The smoke stack is a dead give away for the general era.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

From what I can gather... 1940 Motor Boat.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

You can add another carrier. This one would be easy to do, just replace the deck on my HMS Ocean.
A Pre-Foch French carrier, a borrowed Collossus.

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I'm piggy-backing on this old thread because this also concerns another german aircraft carrier. A heavy cruiser converted into a light carrier.
Seydlitz

 

[Goldflash]

OOoooo. what a pretty ship. And she has a pretty name, too. Seydlitz. So pretty!

 

[Wyrmshadow]

I had used the Blucher's hull, Graf Zep's island and the Indepence deck to put it together.

 

[Goldflash]

Some Info I've found on the ship for thoes interested:

In 1942, it was decided that the hull of the half-finished heavy cruiser KMS Seydlitz should be converted to an aircraft carrier, in order to provide local air cover for German capital ships. In Bremen, work began to dismantle the superstructure of the would-be cruiser. Probably the armament was already removed to the Atlantic Wall or the Norwegian coast. Some time around November or December 1942, all remaining superstructure was removed and Seydlitz left Bremen for Königsberg.
On New Year's Eve, 1942, the Battle of the Barents Sea took place, in which a superior German naval force was turned away by British light cruisers and destroyers. Hitler was furious and ordered all capital ships decommissioned and all works in progress abandoned. In the few months Seydlitz spent at Königsberg, not much work towards becoming an aircraft carrier could have been done; only some basic flight deck support construction had begun.
No more work were ever done on Seydlitz. She remained in the Schichau Yards in Königsberg until the Russians arrived in April 1945, when she was scuttled to prevent capture. She was renamed Poltava by the Russians and plans were made to rebuild her. They were canceled and the hull was scrapped around 1950-51.

 

[MarineCorps]

Nice ship. Wierd looking but still...