by Ted Bunn
1/400 Graf Spee (Heller)
I actually started this project before the Trumpeter and Academy 1/350 releases of this ship. Just goes to show how slow of a builder I am.
I cut the hull to my preferred waterline version. I also added over a dozen portholes along with a half dozen hatches not included on the molding. Additional ladders and platforms not addressed by the Heller kit were also added to locations according to my reference pictures.
My Graf Spee is painted with Colourcoats enamels from WEM. I also fitted her out with the dedicated WEM PE set for this kit. L'Arsenal products include their resin crew figures set, oxygen and acetylene bottles (just to help add deck clutter) and their Arado Ar-196 resin seaplane. The main and secondary brass gun barrels came from Modelmarine.de. Weathering was lightly done with MiG pigments. The water was made with heavy gel.
