Swastika on Bismarck Deck Question

here is a link showing the decal sheet. also no swastikas on the flags...

Mask it out and airbrush it, or buy a sheet of black decal paper and cut your own. What are the heavy black stripes on the deacal sheet for ? Are you meant to make up a swastika with them or are they for some thing else?

Hunt down a cheap decal sheet with a big swastika on it I guess. Does anyone make aftermarket decals of those Swastika ID flags they used on panzers?

Pat

Lookie what I found:

Pat

So do it as the ship actually appeared during Rheinübung.

The swastika was painted out before Bismarck left Norway.

Cheers.

They thought that was the case, but when Bob Ballard found it it had swastikas on it both fore and aft.

info on the paint schemes here, although they don't show the swastikas on it when it was sunk: are from this webpage: explanation may be here: "On 22 May, the weather worsened. During the night, the German battle group headed North, with the three destroyers in the lead and the Prinz Eugen closing the formation. At 0420, the destroyers were detached and headed east to Trondheim, while the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen maintained their northward course at 24 knots. At 1237 there was a submarine and air alarm, and the German ships zig-zagged for about half an hour. When the alarm ended, the tops of the main and secondary turrets were painted over, and the swastikas on the decks were covered with canvas, as they could help enemy aircraft to identify the German ships."

So the swastikas weren't painted over, they were covered with canvas - which has rotted away in the years since it sunk. Neat model of the sunken Bismarck:

Pat

snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.net said the following on 25/02/2008 02:48:

The knee-jerk reaction.

Someone seeing sense.

Install yellow "smiley faces" instead. Must not offend anybody...

JM

it sure shows up on the wreck.

on 2/25/2008 10:52 AM snipped-for-privacy@some.domain said the following:

Perhaps the paint they used to cover the swastika was quickly applied and was not as durable as the original paint and the sea erased it.

some self-adhesive vinyl:

squadron also lists several sheets of waterslide aircraft swastikas in various sizes / scales that *might* be close. you'd have to do some scale conversions to check however....

That's because it wasn't painted over, it was covered with canvas. And the canvas has rotted away.

Pat

John Mianowski wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@41g2000hsc.googlegroups.com:

Gahan Wilson was way ahead of you. He had a cartoon of soldiers sporting smiley-face armbands marching in review before a stand festoon with smiley-face flags. It was in Playboy or National Lampoon, I can't recall which.