Even so, however, you should know by now that I would never - ever - turn to a 1/350 kit for a Tirpitz build. For one thing, my tiny diggs are packed with 1/500-ish kits and not only do I have to consume them, to make some room to live in here, but I wouldn't have space for a 1/350 BB anyway - as a matter of survival! No, for me - at least, as long as I live in this tiny pad - 350-scale is for subs, DDs and DEs only!
Meantime, I've got several Bismark-class kits already staring me in the face:
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As is the ancient Airfix Bismark:
Click on Image to Enlarge Or at least, the hull sure doesn't - with a 'way-too-high freeboard, and dubious treatment of the armor belts as well, it rather resembles some of the modernized (blistered) Japanese battleships more than it does a Bismark! But the inaccuracy is all in the shape - as the overall dimensions of 16.4" LOA and 2.35" (max.) beam scale out to 1/597.8 and 1/602.6 - averaging exactly 1/600.2. So, if the hull could be fixed or replaced with something better, perhaps many of the detail parts of the kit could be useable, to good advantage.
Another classic kit - only released as Tirpitz, AFAIK, and also with pretty cool box art - is the Mongram Tirpitz:
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I, of course - if deciding to use this hull - would bulge its sides out to 1/617, matching its length, and then would cannibalize the Airfix and Revell kits - and, even better, the excellent Airfix Prinz Eugen (of which I have at least one in my boneyard) - for the very best of their 1/600 parts, which would be only 2.8% (i.e., completely unnoticeably) oversized.
And that's the answer - my whole answer - to your question, Mikey!
Cheers,
-Matty
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