{"id":11292,"date":"2020-06-10T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=11292"},"modified":"2020-06-10T08:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T07:36:51","slug":"german-transfer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/german-transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"German Transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/german-transfer\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"450px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div><p>You can file this in the &#8216;why didn&#8217;t I think of it before&#8217; category. <\/p>\n<p>The background for the recently released Turkish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/04\/the-sultan-of-swing\/\">Sultan Selim<\/a> battlecruiser mentioned its German roots, and how the Turks converted it and then built more of the same design. <\/p>\n<p>So what if we go back to the original Teutonic battlecruiser, replace the round turrets with more Germanic square ones ? Hey presto, we get the SMS Goeben (which is the name of one of the real Moltke class battlecruisers that the Germans transferred to the Ottoman Empire <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SMS_Goeben\">in August 1914<\/a>). It&#8217;s exactly the same model as the Sultan Selim, just with German turrets instead (the turret pins on the round turrets are slightly larger so you&#8217;ll need a steady hand to centre the German turrets on the rings, and the rearmost turret is a very tight squeeze against the superstructure).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/german-transfer\/goebenrelease\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoebenRelease.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,540\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"GoebenRelease\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoebenRelease.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoebenRelease.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11295\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Aeronef\/Germany\/VAN-328.html\">VAN-328<\/a> &#8211; Goeben class Battlecruiser &#8211; \u00a37.00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can file this in the &#8216;why didn&#8217;t I think of it before&#8217; category. The background for the recently released Turkish Sultan Selim battlecruiser mentioned its German roots, and how the Turks converted it and then built more of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2020\/06\/german-transfer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,46,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aeronef","category-imperial-skies","category-new-releases"],"views":2030,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/GoebenRelease.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p26BWy-2W8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8284,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/02\/the-grand-fleet-arrives\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":0},"title":"The Grand Fleet Arrives","author":"Tony","date":"February 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Following on from the arrival of the new Victoria and Albert class battleships, the rest of the British capital ships get a similar makeover this week. 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Three replace the existing models, while the Hansa and L\u00fctzow are new designs. The K\u00f6ln is one of the oldest German models in the range and both it and the Emden had small cast-on turrets. 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After a successful run of the master moulds the other night, we have tins and initial stock of the Neo-Soviet BRK gunboat, in two variants with a choice of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;6mm SF&quot;","block_context":{"text":"6mm SF","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/6mm-sf\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0519.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0519.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0519.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7400,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2017\/02\/defending-the-harbours\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":4},"title":"Defending the Harbours","author":"Tony","date":"February 17, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Today's new release is an expansion to our Small Scale Scenery Harbour Walls set. It's a set of compatible pieces with fittings for various sizes and type of gun turret, plus fixed gun mountings (from our Fort Guns). They aren't based on any historical prototype, so technically I suppose they'd\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Releases&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Releases","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/category\/new-releases\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SSS-8076-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SSS-8076-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SSS-8076-2.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/SSS-8076-2.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":8633,"url":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/der-luftschiffeflotte\/","url_meta":{"origin":11292,"position":5},"title":"Die Luftschiffflotte","author":"Tony","date":"May 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The German Aeronef Fleet is the latest one to be updated, with the existing battleship and battlecruiser models replaced with new designs. 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