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My suggestion is to paint a red stripe on it to make it go faster.

I'd suggest an 80cm Gustav in Spinal Mount configuration to finally show that Super Space Ship Yamato who's boss.

She'd need a smaller superstructure, improved pen angles and a superheal.

My late father-in-law wanted to make a large and very detailed model of the Bismarck, so he wrote to Blohm und Voss asking if it was possible to get a copy of the plans for the ship. He received a very nice reply letter saying that they would love to be able to, but that unfortunately the plans were destroyed by his air force during the war.

This honestly could be the start of a new series.  Drach's Resdesigns of Badly Designed ships.  Maybe the Admiral Hippers or the Koingsburg cruisers next?

In 2007 I went to the Ship yard of Blohm and Voss in Hamburg. An experience in its self, taking the private, and very beautiful tunnel under the river Elbe  to get to the yard in the middle of the river. We were shown an absolutely immense builders model of the Bismarck, that had been built in the yard. We were told by the director that the model had only recently been exhumed from the yard. It had apparently been buried in the closing days of the war, and it was only in the early 2000’s that the Blohm and Voss management had decided that enough time had passed that it was politically acceptable to exhume and show the builders model again.  What ever you might think of its engineering..it was a stunningly beautiful ship.

I would move the foward radar array out of the blast zone of the foward guns so the ship doesn't blind itself after firing it's main guns.

The tripple turrets combined with the large aft deck space for aviation and torpedoes would have actually worked really well with their surface raiding strategy

Personally i think a jump drive would've been the deciding factor

With my vast knowledge of engineering and historical battleships, I can, with certainty, say that in Dora's place in the 3x3 layout, there would be a pool.

My suggestion is to add an emergency jettison button for each individual rudder.

So glad you're finally making a video on such an obscure ship!!!!

Secondary spam actually would have helped Bismarck quite a bit. She was headed out to do some merchant raiding and freighters typically are not armored or particularly fast. Reducing her displacement would also be beneficial, nothing is quite as awkward as your new flagship getting stuck in the canal because she's too heavy.

Okay,  hear me out on this one: all big guns.  All big guns.  Deck: gun barrels. Hull plates: gun barrels. Rudder: gun barrels
One shell preloaded in each gives a 300-gun broadside.

Give her a robot dragon or maybe a Keter-class anomaly

The scale model ship company Alnavco and its master modeler, Wayne Smith came up with this similar version of Bismarck a year or so ago. Three triple turrets, the 120mm DP guns and a slight rearrangement of the superstructure.

27:29 The ideal use for the rear deck space is of course French cast iron park benches.

I'd suggeat making bismarck into a exoskeleton like rigging so that it can be used by one person and be smaller than a pt boat

I think a spare rudder strapped to the stern would've served her well.