Arado Ar-196A-2 - Admiral Hipper
A Joint Project - Between a Husband & Wife

This project will be a collaboration build between my wife & I. She plans to build the Admiral Hipper & I will build one of the Hipper's Arado Ar-196s. The Trumpeter Admiral Hipper will be her contribution, straight from the box, unless she chooses to include barrels. My contribution will be the Blue Ribbon release of the Heller Arado Ar-196 with all sorts of goodies to doll it up; Some of which took a long time to obtain.

Originally this was going to include two ships, including the IBG Models Glowworm. However, no rescue aircraft seem to have been involved from the RAF side of the engagement so it would have been a 2-1 contribution to the collaboration. Although the Arado didn't really play a role in the aforementioned engagement they were still there to bear witness to the battle that led to the ONLY known recommendation from the Kriegsmarine to the Royal Navy in WW2 to grant a medal to an enemy combatant.

Incidentally, the day the HMS Glowworm & KMS Admiral Hipper clashed (literally) was exactly 37 years before the birth of my wife.