A new one from Germany

[Wilfried]

Moin Hagen,

welcome aboard; lot of well known friends welcomes you!

regards
Wilfried

[Michael Mash]

Welcome Hagen!
Mike

[thorst]

Welcome from Nuremberg!

Thorsten

[hagen von tronje]

@Werner
Well, not the „Mauretania“ – apart from joining a new community to meet some old friends I’m especially interested in the „Sea Vixen“…

@elliott
Okay – then I will place some pictures here every now and then.

@SCEtoAUX
Thanks – Zweibrücken? Was it maybe during your military service?

@Yu Gyokubun
Hello Yu – really a long while…
Nice to meet you her – hope you’re doing well.

@Seascape
Thanks, Fred. That’s true – there are some old friends amongst the members here…

@Vermin_king
Thank you – hope there will really be more time (mostly retired people answer: „I’m afraid I haven’t any time").

@Wilfried
Hello Wilfried – well not quite surprising to meet you here…

@Michael Mash
Hi Mike, nice to meet you here, too!

@thorst
Hello Thorsten,
greetings from the „Oberpfalz“ to „Mittelfranken“!

[SCEtoAUX]

@SCEtoAUX
Thanks – Zweibrücken? Was it maybe during your military service?

Nope, it was my father's military service that took us to Zweibrücken. I was just 4 years old and having a good time exploring the area and not worrying about anything. We lived on Carl-Pöhlmann-Straße according to family records.

[hagen von tronje]

Well, of course it couldn't have been you with that military service - you're much too young according to your picture. I somehow read over the year dates...

I'm very pleased to hear that you enjoyed your stay in Germany.

[peter taft]

Hello and welcome to PM DOT COM. Enjoy your stay {you will}

[herky]

Originally Posted by hagen von tronje

Hello to all,

another guy from Bavaria, Germany!

I started card modelling back in the sixties building ships and airplanes, but at the age of twenty there became some other things more important (army, studies, job), which resulted in a 35 years break....

In 2005 I started again with that hobby and since that time I have built about 120 models, mostly ships in 1:250 and some warbirds in 1:50. In about 28 months I will retire - and I hope, there will be much more time for card modelling...

Grettings
Hagen

welcome.im guessing if you build ships and at 1;250 you must be a hmv model fan as i am

[hagen von tronje]

@Peter Taft
Thanks, Peter! Yes, I'm sure, I will....

@Herky
Yes, you’re right – there are a lot of HMV-models amongst my kits (many haven’t been built yet), but I build models from other publishers, too, e.g. Moewe-Verlag or MDK-Verlag (both not as detailed as HMV, but some ships which you don’t find elsewhere) or Passat-Verlag (high-class kits) and other smaller publishers.

[hagen von tronje]

Well– let’s start with the card model show…

Back in 2005 I started card modelling again after a 35 years‘ break as I mentioned above. All my ships are waterline models in 1:250.

The first one to be glued in 2005 was the old pre-dreadnaught „Schleswig-Holstein“ of the Imperial German Navy (Moewe-Verlag, Germany). When I built this ship I didn’t know anything about laser cut parts, therefore she was fitted with the original card railings from the kit. Maybe one day I will replace these card parts with laser cutted parts.

The „Schleswig-Holstein“ was built in 1906. Rebuilt after WWI she was still in use with the „Reichsmarine“ (German Navy of the Weimar Republic). Even the „Kriegsmarine“ used that old ironclad as a cadet training ship. On December 18, 1944, she was bombed near Gotenhafen (today Gdynia, Poland) and sunk. After the war she was raised and towed to Reval (today Tallin, Estonia). Then she was rebuilt and used as a target ship until 1955 for the Red Fleet.

The model shows the „Reichsmarine“ version after the reconstruction.