Whats This, Dutch Battlecruiser Going Down!?!

Starts with Jim H. missidentifying the sinking DBC as Scharnhorst (considering how similar they look), followed by some pond-side joking. Then my brother comes in and anounces the sinking condition of Dave's ship to the world, moments before it slips under.
From over an inch of freeboard to sunk in under 30 seconds. That's a pretty fast sink, if you ask me.
This was the second of four battleships sunk that day, although two were grounded and the fourth was rescued just before going all the way under to save a wireless video camera.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• big
• gun
• robot
• robotic
• radio
• controlled
• model
• warship
• combat
• battle
• ship
• cruiser
• dutch
• sink
• batttlecruiser

[guitarhero3rox97]

all the servos are waterproof so u just patch the holes or something and get going the next day or whatever?

[kotori87]

Correct. Salvaging a ship after it's been sunk takes 30 minutes to an hour for most ships. That involves flushing out servos, radio, motors, magazines, etc. with rubbing alcohol to prevent rust, and applying temporary masking-tape patches. I have seen one or two ships that, upon rescue, are simply refloated and sailed back into shore, though. That takes some impressive waterproofing.

[draculapw]

I was referring to the size. Ever seen a Swiss army knife? ;-)

[kotori87]

*dutch* battlecruiser. Dutch, not Swiss...

[draculapw]

This looks like the entire Swiss Navy!

[kotori87]

90-140 Kg. The only 1/72 scale Bismark I've seen took two people to launch, broke into two sections, and most of the ballast was 5-Kg bags of lead shot, added after the boat was in the water. PM me if you want to see pictures.

[xatrag]

How much is that in Kg?? Im from Sweden so I dont know.

Thank you

[kotori87]

yes, but not easily. And not cheaply, either. A 1/72 scale Bismark is around 12 feet long and weighs between 200 and 300 pounds.

[burgardus]

really wonderful that someone built one of the never-built Dutch battle cruisers as a scale-combat model!

Very few people know actually that the Netherlands planned to built at least three Scharnhorst-type Battlecruisers for service in the Dutch East-Indies. I run into this video, checking the internet on information for converting a scharnhorst-model into one of these DBC's

[xatrag]

It is posible to by 1/72 scale battleships like Bismark.