Colin,..for me the Scharnhorst was beauty personified,...I do know where your coming from,and admit that there are many other ships that can be viewed as beautiful, but for me it was Her,...I have a shelf full of books on most of the German ships of WW11, and the same goes for German Tanks,and armour and ordinance,
In fact I don,t think I have one book on British or allied weaponry....probably the German influences showing through from my father,...who fought on the Eastern Front,43/45,and lived to tell the tale,
Wullie
One of the most attractive Warships that ever were has to be the French Battleships of WW2. Really great looking ships. Re the dearth of British ships or wepons being modelled it is because of lack of interest in them. To see Diaramas at modelling shows would give the impression that the war was between Germany and USA !!
I was , upto a couple of years ago, involved in production and sales of model Kits of Military subjects. If you wanted a sure fire seller, model something German. No matter what! At one Show, as a joke, we advertised that our next model would be that of an Armoured Assault Wheelbarrow, As used on the Eastern Front, We had 19 firm orders for the kit when it was ready!!
As a matter of plain fact, none of the German Capitle Ships were very succesfull, all being sunk of bottled up in Norwegian Fjords while the Brits slowly knocked bits off them! Any that did brave a Breakout were very smartly disposed of.