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Well said.
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Andrea Doria and Stockholm are available in 250 scale. Fortunately, I took many pictures of a detalied model at the Genoa Shipping Museum two years ago. That shall serve as guideline. But first my Gustloff must go on. At the moment I am working at the Signal Deck to Sports Deck section, including the awnings.
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The pics show nicely the current status of the ship. The boat deck is under construction. I improved the lasercut davids a bit. The upper parts of the davids are added later as not to obstruct the details below. Unfortunately there are few (and contradictory) information about the platforms between the davids for the boat winches and the working galleys that connect these platforms. I opted for the number chosen by the model on display at Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum in Bremerhaven. The cranes of the davids are connected by rods to the upper parts of the davids. As usual, as a builder sometimes you must decide for one alternative. Other models show the rods connected to parts of the winches. One way or another - the deck starts to look impressive and gives a nice, detailed look to the ship. Basically a picture of a mock-up for the movie helped me a lot.
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My hospital ship project is completed. It took me almost a year, more that I originally planned. Well, let´s have a look around the ship as it presented itself from 1939 to 1940: the first pictures show the bow and forecastle with the bridge front. The details inside the Lower Promenade Deck show nicely: here are some recreational areas for the upper-rank patients, like officers.
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the bow and forecastle
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the Upper and Lower Promenade, also with hospital equipment on the lower deck.
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the Sun Deck: the Winter Garden (Laube) at the front, followed by the gymnaium, the funnel and the sports area (assembly area for propaganda purposes). Also visible is the back of the Upper and Lower Promenade Decks
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You did a superb job on this model. I have enjoyed looking at all the sharp images you have provided.
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The next row of pics show the inside of the Lower Promenade, the aft part of the Lower Promenade with some outdoor space for deck chairs for patients and the A-Deck.
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The final pics give an impression of the entire ship. One may speculate what would have become of this impressive and innovative ship, had it outlived the war. It is an interesing speculation if it could have overcome its sinister past and sailed into a more peaceful and friendly future in the fifties. The French would not have taken it, I assume, as they were in need of a transatlantic liner. The Gustloff was not capable of such a service, neither in terms of hull strength or machinery. This also applies to CP as a replacement for their Empress of Britain. Royal Mail, P&O, Union-Castle and Orient needed long-distance tropical liners. Maybe Cunard would have inegrated her into their fleet as a cruise ship and the Caronia would have never been built. Maybe they would have re-engined her to increase her low-15-knots. The Americans would have turned her down, I suppose. They were over-impressed by the performance of the Queens, so it is likely they they would have pursued with their own plans of a big liner. The re-allocation of the USS Europa to the French show that another re-building was out of the question. Here the shadow of the Leviathan still lingered over the horizon, a story that the Americans were most unwilling to repeat. They also strived for something bigger that their own America. That leave the Soviets as the most likely ones to engage the Gustloff after the war. They showed that they found work for many ex-German liners, regardless of condition or size. Like the Admiral Nachimov, maybe the Gustloff would have served nicely on the Black Sea in calm, warm weather. I can vividly picture Russian tourists in the fifties and sixties on her vast open decks, enjoying the summer breeze before they had to return to their grey-Soviet-style housing and factories. As "Mir" the ship would at last have sailed on a somewhat happier course...
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