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Battleship Bismarck, the most powerful battleship of the kriegsmarine (oh, and the Tirpitz too). This time is opening fire against something... maybe the Hood.Photoshop CS + wacom tablet
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Very good, you kept the ferocity of the Bismarck. I believe there were plans for both BBs to sail together, but the Tirpitz was still not ready for deployment for May. An interesting scenario, but I believe ultimately the Royal Navy would get the upper hand.
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no problems great pic
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Yes, well done! Looks like mine but yours is infinately better.
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Awesome job!!
A very sad moment in Royal Navy history.
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si, esa era la idea, mostrar al acorazado abriendo fuego con sus caΓ±ones de artilleria 
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saludos...
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Really interesting picture :3
I love the way the water looks like. It is like a real thing 
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thanks man, comments are always appreciated
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You are welcome really :3
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Whats Kriegsmarine? Warmarine? Warnavy? Wardivers? Tirpitz, whazzat? The "Hood?"
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war navy
Great Job on this one HDT!
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ok, let me explain. The Kriegsmarine was the german navy of the WW II, the Tirpitz was the sister battleship of the Bismarck and the Hood was a british battleship that tried to stop the bismarck but it failed and was sunk by the bismarck main artillary guns... pretty much like that.
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Tirpitz did not sail with Bismark in 1941, I don't think it was completed at that time. Tirpitz was Bismark's sister ship, but it never left German or Norwegian waters for the entire length of its career. The ship that accompanied the Bismark on the Bismark's lone sortie was a heavy cruiser called the Prinz Eugan, which was nearly identical to the Bismark in terms of its exterior design, and the two ships would have to be right next to each other in order to tell which is which (Bismark was much bigger). In fact, in the Battle of the Denmark Strait (where the Hood was sunk), Hood and Prince of Wales (the British battleship accompanying the Hood) fired on Prinz Eugan first, thinking it was Bismark.
Also, Hood was a battlecruiser, not a battleship. Battlecruisers and battleships can be hard to differentiate and were largely only employed in European navies. In general a battlecruiser is a warship of similiar dimensions to a battleship, and is also as heavily armed as a battleship, but to improve it's speed and range, a battlecruiser has much less armor then a battleship, which is why the Hood lasted six minutes against Bismark. One salvo sent a shell through Hood's thin armor and exploded in Hood's aft powder magazine. The resulting explosion ripped the Hood in half (and Bismark might have sunk the Prince of Wales as well if half of its shells hadn't been duds).
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geez, thanks for the help with this, I love the WW II facts, thanks for clearing the whole subject. The Bismarck was a beautiful ship, yet hard to paint hahaha.
thanks again!!1
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