As a custom builder, my deepest respects to owner/builder of this incredible ship, she's truly a work of art. Thanks for sharing her with us, a great video as always.
For the people who haven’t read the description, this is KMS Graf Spee, she was a Deutschland class heavy cruiser and typically referred to as a “pocket battleship” and is most famously known for the Battle of the River Plate in which she faced off against HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles, and HMS Exeter in which she suffered damage to something related to the fuel. But after fake reports of HMS Ark Royal and HMS Renown I think in the region made the captain and German High Command scuttle the ship. Some of her rangefinders rests in Uruguay I believe. I typically can tell the Graf Spee mainly because of her 6 main guns, and her rear quad torp tubes.
She was a Heavy Cruiser... the term "Pocket Battleship" was a British propaganda term. She sunk 11 merchant and supply ships in the Atlantic prior to the Battle of the River Platte. She was a modern marvel at the time.
Atemberaubendes Modell eines erstaunlichen Beispiels der Meerestechnik. Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff (20. März 1894 - 20. Dezember 1939) befehligt von einem Marinehelden und wirklich ehrenwerten Mann. Von Helden besetzt. Stunning model of an amazing example of Marine Engineering. Commanded by a Naval hero and truly honourable man, Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff (20 March 1894 - 20 December 1939). Crewed by heros.
Ein Wahnsinnsteil. 👍👍👍👍😄😄😄😄😄Aber 128Kg!!! Nie im Leben. Die beiden Männer haben den Rumpf locker zu Wasser gebracht. Ich schätze mal, max. 50Kg. Wenn man jetzt den Massstab wüsste, kann man leicht ausrechnen, wieviel das Modell wiegen muss, damit die Wasserlinie stimmt.
I think that the German naval architects designed some of the best looking warships ever in my opinion. In the real world, the trouble was, as I understand it, the German Navy had not achieved its desired size at the outbreak of WWII - plus they didn't enjoy the same access to the Atlantic as the Royal Navy - so they were always constrained in that regard. They were a feared and respected opponent and were tough ships to sink. The accuracy of their fire control systems always gave them the edge in any opening exchanges. This is a beautiful model that really looks right.. Well done to its builder.
The look on Kriegsmarine ships were very... classic, in a way. Elegant lines. Sadly for their designs, the excellence levels achieved during the days of the Kaiser were long gone and the quality of the new designs left a lot to be desired.
Pip Piperade for me germany is the number in world war 2 in making awesome weapon from ship,tank, to planes and not least the first assault rifle but too late to develope that put them to lose the war and the destruction of Hitlers falls. Its just my opinion
I won't comment about the Heer or the Luftwaffe, which both had excellent machines. The Kriegsmarine, however, had some decidedly mediocre (Bismarck) or downright bad (Scharnhorst) surface designs. However, if you want quality ships coming from Germany, look at those designed and produced previous to WW I, back when Germany could afford the luxury of going face to face with the Royal Navy.
Hola !!! Me llamo Gabrielle Andrea y soy de Argentina. Amo este buque !!! Mi abuelo tenía a tres amigos marineros que eran amigos de el. Es una maqueta maravillosa !!! Los felicito realmente por tanto detalle y ver a Hans Langsdorff en el puente. Bellísimo !!!!! Gracias por mantener mediante una hermosa maqueta la memoria de su capitán y la de su buque que es el que más me gusta de la II Guerra Mundial
It is first lifted into the water. Then lead weights and batteries come in. Then the ship's buildings are put on. That's why you do not have to lift 128 kg of 2 people.
It definitely doesn't weight 128kg, regarding Archimedes principle. A 128 Kg floating means the boats submerged volume represents 128kg of water, that is to say 128L. On the video we clearly see the sumbergend volume below the waterline of the boat is far less than 128L. It seems way closer to 12.8L, that is to say 12.8Kg. Basic Physics. Beautiful model tho.
I have been toying (No pun intended) around with the thought for years of building a large scale battleship out of tin and after seeing how easy a steam engine would be to acquire run off propane, I am inspired by this Beautiful Ship.
Well ...the Germans did at that time many things first too they were good engineers however Germany was in quaditty behind all the others behind in numbers from the beginning so when the war broke out there was no way that they could catch up against the English or Americans so they were forced to count on quality fue ships but very well made in speed /protection/armament the boilers of this ship were special made & very advance for that period of time had to used special diesel of fuel which this fuel had to be process first at other boiler to specific grade before feed then to the main boilers then when that primary boiler was destroy by the British guns then the ship become useless & therefore couldn't escape the destruction in my opinion the kapitain sink the ship so the technology of the ship guns/engines e t c not to failed at British hands & of course by doing this he save the life of his men but he payed dearly with his own.
It was not classified as a Battle Cruiser but an armored ship or Panzerschiff in Deutsch, British termed it a "Pocket Battleship." Heavy main armament, lighter armor.
I saw a battleship of that size range many years ago in Kingston Ontario being driven around by a man inside. I had the impression he used a canoe for the hull which likely saved a lot of the construction time, and in the end may not have been too far away from the ship's original lines anyway.. He made no effort to conceal himself inside which actually added to the fun of watching him tool around the local waterfront.
There would have been a need for various boats to scout out ports, harbours, anchorages etc of varying depths and conditions. Also a lot of transfers occurred between ships and shore installations in home ports and foreign (neutral or friendly) ports requiring varying types of boats and launches depending on the task being carried out or the status of the person being carried.Not all the boats carried would have been purely lifeboats.
Those wooden decks look awesome! I remember serving on HMAS Supply, an oil tanker in 1978 and every week the morning watch would lime and scrub the decks... I loved the morning watch, 0400-0800
just looking at that plane on the launcher... what kind of logistical nightmare it must have been to get that thing back up there, especially in rougher water.
Would have been better if the upper structure electronics were in full display, plenty of harness there when they put the superstructure on. Aside from that, Love how it turns!
This ship is a Panzerschiff (Armoured Ship), it was intended to combine the features of Battleships/Battlecruisers' heavy artillery (6x280mm / 2x3) with high speed and good manoeuvrability of Cruisers. The result was the "Deutschland-Class", a relatively small ship with high speed, armed with Battleship-Main-guns. These Armoured Ships were rightly feared by enemy Destroyers and Cruisers. Deutschland-Class Panzerschiff (Armoured Ship) 1931 *Ships of this Class* - _Deutschland_ Renamed _(Lützow)_ - _Admiral Scheer_ - _Admiral Graf Spee_ *Armament* Main battery: 6x280mm (11'') [2x3] / maximum range: ~26 kilometres; Shell weight: 284kg; Cadence: 2 s/min (shots per minute) Secondary battery: 8x150mm (5,9'') [8x1] Anti-Aircraft: 6x105mm (3,9'') // 8x37mm (1,18'') [4x2] Torpedoes: 8x533mm (20,8'') [2x4] *Top Speed* 28,5 knots (53km/h)
Beautiful model! Could you describe briefly the power plant? Which electric motors you use, how many, what batteries... I'm designing from scratch something very similar and would be great checking those details with someone already experienced. Thanks in advance!
I do believe it would benefit immensely from a considerable dose of ballast....reduce the freeboard....gets props submerged....heavier wakes....lessen bobbing....
imagining my self back at ww1 and ww2 seeing giant ship like these,astonish at the fact that human can build amazing things like these and disgusted at the same time that it was used to kill humans
Lovely model. Maybe a bit top heavy, or a bit to light ballast? Too bad the cockpit of the Arado wasn't painted at the standard of the rest of the ship. This class was called a pocket battleship, because it had the arnement of a battleship, but not the protection. After the first world war, Germany was not allowed to build warships larger than a certain displacement. The German engineers avoided this by making a new class, popular called the pocket battleship. They where fast and had a striking power large enough to scare anybody, but had little armor. Their tactics was supposed to be to strike when it was favourably, and run when it was not. The captain of Admiral Graf Spree made the wrong decision, and at the end was forced to sacrify his ship.
As a custom builder, my deepest respects to owner/builder of this incredible ship, she's truly a work of art. Thanks for sharing her with us, a great video as always.
Models of HMS Ajax, HMS Exeter and HMS Achilles chasing it around the pool would've made for an excellent historical diorama!!
So this is KMS Graf spee?
@@smort3547 yes
Battle of Rio de la Plata
@@Whatareyoudoinnhere ... and get a scale Fairey Swordfish to fly about reporting the fall of shot!!
Admiral Graf Spee intensifies
Captain was not a jerk...he actually saved alot of lives in a battle he couldnt win, and if ship stayed in port, it would of been seized by allies..
RC ROTOR Captain Langsdorf was a true gentleman..much respected by his prisoners.
I do not know how they did it , as it blow up . But the British secret service got the radar off it .
He should have been given an award by the British for the many lives he saved on both sides! Rest in peace Captain!!
Hi
The captain was stupid, it’s a warship, he would have battered the competition again and sailed off, the Spee wasn’t damaged..
Good model. A very well designed ship in real life. All three gave good service.
For the people who haven’t read the description, this is KMS Graf Spee, she was a Deutschland class heavy cruiser and typically referred to as a “pocket battleship” and is most famously known for the Battle of the River Plate in which she faced off against HMS Ajax, HMS Achilles, and HMS Exeter in which she suffered damage to something related to the fuel. But after fake reports of HMS Ark Royal and HMS Renown I think in the region made the captain and German High Command scuttle the ship. Some of her rangefinders rests in Uruguay I believe. I typically can tell the Graf Spee mainly because of her 6 main guns, and her rear quad torp tubes.
She was a Heavy Cruiser... the term "Pocket Battleship" was a British propaganda term. She sunk 11 merchant and supply ships in the Atlantic prior to the Battle of the River Platte. She was a modern marvel at the time.
Atemberaubendes Modell eines erstaunlichen Beispiels der Meerestechnik. Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff (20. März 1894 - 20. Dezember 1939) befehligt von einem Marinehelden und wirklich ehrenwerten Mann. Von Helden besetzt. Stunning model of an amazing example of Marine Engineering. Commanded by a Naval hero and truly honourable man, Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff (20 March 1894 - 20 December 1939). Crewed by heros.
Like all these electric boats, the fun is in the building. Going round & round in an indoor pool would have to be akin to watching paint dry.
If thats the size of Graf Spee RC Model, Imagine Bismarcks RC Model
Confused Admiral Or Yamato
Sebastian Hurtado Cordova tirpitz would be the same size as the Bismarck tho
Pocket battleships are half the size of a battleship
@@cloud6254 Half as in displacement or length?
@@kurumi394 displacement
Great and beautiful.👍👍👍
That is a thing of beauty. The workmanship is amazing 😀
Really cool Deutschland class pocket battleship!!
Good to know Arnie loves his ships too 👍😊
The front turret is suffering from ED.
Elevation Dysfunction.
Only shoots blanks!
lol
Класс,этож сколько труда и терпения
Tourettes Syndrome.
be nice if the main guns would have elevated and turned. Anyone that can build a ship of that detail should be able to come up with that function.
Fair play to the Germany they did build sexy ships . Well engineered well over engineered but still a beautiful sight .
The detail is just as incredible! Not at all surprising that it was built by Germans! 😄👍
Incredible build .True craftsmanship.
Beautiful workmanship!
I see the skipper is adept at using both the rudder and the props to execute turns. Well done!
Excellent attention to detail!!!!! Workmanship most excellent!!!!!
I got distracted by the Titanic sailing in the background lol, very cool ship!
This is something I would call the project of a lifetime.
DAMN A MODEL ADMIRAL GRAF SPEE
Ein Wahnsinnsteil. 👍👍👍👍😄😄😄😄😄Aber 128Kg!!! Nie im Leben. Die beiden Männer haben den Rumpf locker zu Wasser gebracht. Ich schätze mal, max. 50Kg. Wenn man jetzt den Massstab wüsste, kann man leicht ausrechnen, wieviel das Modell wiegen muss, damit die Wasserlinie stimmt.
Works of Art.
Absolutely gorgeous model. One quibble: The Arado floatplane's really needs its canopy framework painted.
That is the admiral Graf spee pride of German cruisers
Тысяча примеров из разных отраслей:немцы всё умеют и отдыхать и работать!
I think that the German naval architects designed some of the best looking warships ever in my opinion.
In the real world, the trouble was, as I understand it, the German Navy had not achieved its desired size at the outbreak of WWII - plus they didn't enjoy the same access to the Atlantic as the Royal Navy - so they were always constrained in that regard. They were a feared and respected opponent and were tough ships to sink. The accuracy of their fire control systems always gave them the edge in any opening exchanges.
This is a beautiful model that really looks right.. Well done to its builder.
Pip: I suppose I like the Japanese better....lower freeboard....extended bows....about 10-stories high (easier to find after they sink...)
The look on Kriegsmarine ships were very... classic, in a way. Elegant lines. Sadly for their designs, the excellence levels achieved during the days of the Kaiser were long gone and the quality of the new designs left a lot to be desired.
Pip Piperade for me germany is the number in world war 2 in making awesome weapon from ship,tank, to planes and not least the first assault rifle but too late to develope that put them to lose the war and the destruction of Hitlers falls. Its just my opinion
I won't comment about the Heer or the Luftwaffe, which both had excellent machines. The Kriegsmarine, however, had some decidedly mediocre (Bismarck) or downright bad (Scharnhorst) surface designs. However, if you want quality ships coming from Germany, look at those designed and produced previous to WW I, back when Germany could afford the luxury of going face to face with the Royal Navy.
German ships had a tendency to be "wet" in even calm waters .
Hola !!! Me llamo Gabrielle Andrea y soy de Argentina. Amo este buque !!! Mi abuelo tenía a tres amigos marineros que eran amigos de el. Es una maqueta maravillosa !!! Los felicito realmente por tanto detalle y ver a Hans Langsdorff en el puente. Bellísimo !!!!! Gracias por mantener mediante una hermosa maqueta la memoria de su capitán y la de su buque que es el que más me gusta de la II Guerra Mundial
Everytime the Graf Spee enters a match in War Thunder: "Why do I hear boss music?"
Try World of Warships you don't hear it there.
@@StarBornMichael yup but hear it when the Yamamoto battleship enters.
Am I the only one kinda disappointed that at that scale, they didn't motorize the turrets and go the extra step to make it more realistic?
Or you know, make the front guns level and not pointed at the deck.
Prächtiges Schiff! Stellen Sie sich vor, der Katapultwerfer für das Wasserflugzeug funktioniert.
Beautiful ship got a lot right this graf spee is the best I have seen
Is it deutschland or graf spee
Yamato Master grad spee I use it in world of warships I can confirm this is the graf spee the aft torpedo tubes 2 283 mm guns etc
If that's 128kg those two old boys make it look easy work lifting it in.....
ilovenitnat yeah impossible that boat weights 128k... More like near 50k
It is first lifted into the water. Then lead weights and batteries come in. Then the ship's buildings are put on. That's why you do not have to lift 128 kg of 2 people.
12kg
Then the description should clarify that fact.
It definitely doesn't weight 128kg, regarding Archimedes principle. A 128 Kg floating means the boats submerged volume represents 128kg of water, that is to say 128L. On the video we clearly see the sumbergend volume below the waterline of the boat is far less than 128L. It seems way closer to 12.8L, that is to say 12.8Kg. Basic Physics. Beautiful model tho.
還放水裡..真厲害..太逼真
The Admiral Graf Spee was not a "battle cruiser".
The detail in this model is amazing.
It's a heavy cruiser and it could be deutschland to
It was a "pocket battleship"
@@Schlipperschlopper still a cruiser not battleship
@@benconway9010 it was like the Mikasa in that it was meant to be a cruiser that leaned more towards its battleship capabilities instead of destroyer
@@benconway9010 "pocket battleship" was just a nickname that stuck..as thats essemtially what this ship was
Great looking ship. What fun......
Einfach nur toll!
Very impressive !!!
Makes me drool too see that beautiful model sailing on the water
WHAT A DETAILED MODEL.... ;-)))
Great ship and video, excellent work. thank you so much for sharing.
Level of detail is outstanding on the ship itself but the canopy on Arado AR 196 really stands out.
Nice details. ; D
Incredible and awesome modell! Very nice ship! Biggest respect for you!
Well done!
Greeting from Hungary
Beautiful model.
What a beautifull model of DKM CORONEL, looks soy marvelous, named in honour of the battle of Coronel, Chile.
German engineering at it's finest
Amazing details. However it will be better if there are some oil washing and weathering work done on it as well.
Wish we had model boating clubs like this in the U.S.
Majestic.
Simply Majestic.
Someone shows up with same scale yamato: "yeah.. this pool isnt big enough "
hitlersmissingnut Yamato is a favorite of mine too. Amazing ship of her time. Excellent commentary friend.
GarthanSaal444
That Yamato model is 1/10 scale. One thousand of those would equal the size of the real deal.
@@jamesgroccia644 I think you mean 10? the real ship is 10x the length of the 1/10 scale model.
@@LMP-R I mean the real ship is 10 times taller, 10 times longer, and 10 times wider. Since weight increases in cubes, 10*10*10= 1000 times the size.
We need this to happen at an Olympic size pool and underwater cameras showing submarines.
Nice build
I have been toying (No pun intended) around with the thought for years of building a large scale battleship out of tin and after seeing how easy a steam engine would be to acquire run off propane, I am inspired by this Beautiful Ship.
Well ...the Germans did at that time many things first too they were good engineers however Germany was in quaditty behind all the others behind in numbers from the beginning so when the war broke out there was no way that they could catch up against the English or Americans so they were forced to count on quality fue ships but very well made in speed /protection/armament the boilers of this ship were special made & very advance for that period of time had to used special diesel of fuel which this fuel had to be process first at other boiler to specific grade before feed then to the main boilers then when that primary boiler was destroy by the British guns then the ship become useless & therefore couldn't escape the destruction in my opinion the kapitain sink the ship so the technology of the ship guns/engines e t c not to failed at British hands & of course by doing this he save the life of his men but he payed dearly with his own.
Hi, I'm actually designing a heavy cruiser model in 1/48 out of aluminum, based in a Spanish ship from 1930's. Pretty challenging but a real passion.
A big battlecruiser versus small battleships, looks like the tables have turns
That bloody hull should be wider to keep the thing flopping side to side so easy. Its top heavy get more weight in the base it will float better
Graf Spee! Ausgezeichnet!
That is one of the most beautifull model pf any ww2 ships 💓💓💓💓
It was not classified as a Battle Cruiser but an armored ship or Panzerschiff in Deutsch, British termed it a "Pocket Battleship." Heavy main armament, lighter armor.
that s so amazing ! my dream scale model in rc ! sadly the biggest i can is going to be 1/200 scale atleast !
I saw a battleship of that size range many years ago in Kingston Ontario being driven around by a man inside. I had the impression he used a canoe for the hull which likely saved a lot of the construction time, and in the end may not have been too far away from the ship's original lines anyway.. He made no effort to conceal himself inside which actually added to the fun of watching him tool around the local waterfront.
Very cool! Gold hand's masters
another thing i have always wondered with these big ships, is why there are soo many different types of life boats
There would have been a need for various boats to scout out ports, harbours, anchorages etc of varying depths and conditions. Also a lot of transfers occurred between ships and shore installations in home ports and foreign (neutral or friendly) ports requiring varying types of boats and launches depending on the task being carried out or the status of the person being carried.Not all the boats carried would have been purely lifeboats.
@@jgdooley2003 hey thanks, that actually makes sense
Nice, the Graf Spee, play it alot in Wows
loved seeing the crazy innards of the beast
Beautiful ship.
Those wooden decks look awesome! I remember serving on HMAS Supply, an oil tanker in 1978 and every week the morning watch would lime and scrub the decks... I loved the morning watch, 0400-0800
trés belles maquettes, bravo
Beautiful Model. You are are a super craftsman ( men)
just looking at that plane on the launcher... what kind of logistical nightmare it must have been to get that thing back up there, especially in rougher water.
Brilliant, incredible.
A lot of work.
Beautiful ship! I bet that wasn't built on the kitchen table!
They should load those guns with .22lr, and .357 shells. But it's Germany so guns are insanely hard to get much less modify.
Would have been better if the upper structure electronics were in full display, plenty of harness there when they put the superstructure on. Aside from that, Love how it turns!
128kg, - that's a floating slipped disk right there!
Gorgeous one though.
No wight ifvrwal biat
Cantik miniaturnya saya suka 😊
Это афигительно!
Nice ships, what detail! That was cool to see a model of a Nam PBR scooting along there.
Lovely ship
Ohhh, Admiral Graf Spee. Master piece! (beter plumbum batery then lipo,no fire on board)
I'm impressed. Very cool.
Ein super Modell der ,,GRAF SPEE''
speechless 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
This ship is a Panzerschiff (Armoured Ship), it was intended to combine the features of Battleships/Battlecruisers' heavy artillery (6x280mm / 2x3) with high speed and good manoeuvrability of Cruisers.
The result was the "Deutschland-Class", a relatively small ship with high speed, armed with Battleship-Main-guns.
These Armoured Ships were rightly feared by enemy Destroyers and Cruisers.
Deutschland-Class Panzerschiff (Armoured Ship) 1931
*Ships of this Class*
- _Deutschland_ Renamed _(Lützow)_
- _Admiral Scheer_
- _Admiral Graf Spee_
*Armament*
Main battery: 6x280mm (11'') [2x3] / maximum range: ~26 kilometres; Shell weight: 284kg; Cadence: 2 s/min (shots per minute)
Secondary battery: 8x150mm (5,9'') [8x1]
Anti-Aircraft: 6x105mm (3,9'') // 8x37mm (1,18'') [4x2]
Torpedoes: 8x533mm (20,8'') [2x4]
*Top Speed*
28,5 knots (53km/h)
Beautiful model! Could you describe briefly the power plant? Which electric motors you use, how many, what batteries... I'm designing from scratch something very similar and would be great checking those details with someone already experienced.
Thanks in advance!
I do believe it would benefit immensely from a considerable dose of ballast....reduce the freeboard....gets props submerged....heavier wakes....lessen bobbing....
Yes but unfortunately you can't scale water or it's behaviour
A great model!
imagining my self back at ww1 and ww2 seeing giant ship like these,astonish at the fact that human can build amazing things like these and disgusted at the same time that it was used to kill humans
Amazing Job, fascinating.
That's the trouble with large scale models . They take so long to get in the water and they are so delicate !
HE WAS MADE TO RULE THE WAVES ACROSS THE SEVEN SEAS!
*Amazing*
Nicely build model
INCREÍBLE
DAS IS GOOOOOOD
That's a beauty. A pocket battleship, the Graf Spee, isn't it?
What the British called her, yeah.
Graf spee my boy!
The speaker in rhe microphone makes my phone drain more batteries
The navy the Third Reich may be small but it packs a mighty punch
So that's what they call a pocket battleship? Gotta have large pockets :D
Lovely model. Maybe a bit top heavy, or a bit to light ballast? Too bad the cockpit of the Arado wasn't painted at the standard of the rest of the ship. This class was called a pocket battleship, because it had the arnement of a battleship, but not the protection. After the first world war, Germany was not allowed to build warships larger than a certain displacement. The German engineers avoided this by making a new class, popular called the pocket battleship. They where fast and had a striking power large enough to scare anybody, but had little armor. Their tactics was supposed to be to strike when it was favourably, and run when it was not. The captain of Admiral Graf Spree made the wrong decision, and at the end was forced to sacrify his ship.