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Bismarck German Navy Battleship Blueprint Wall Art
Open production · Made after your order
A hand-plotted technical blueprint, drawn stroke by stroke in real ink.
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A technical plan of the Bismarck, drawn in pen, line by line, on 250 g/m² paper, 11 x 17 in (27.9 x 43.2 cm). A physical nib presses into the paper and lays down real ink, stroke after stroke.
The Bismarck exists as a photo and a spec sheet, everywhere — a drawing anyone can call up on a screen. What doesn't exist everywhere is a copy that can say who traced it, where, and under what serial number.
The Bismarck is a battleship built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg — launched on 14 February 1939 and commissioned on 24 August 1940, lead ship of the Bismarck class. Three steam turbines fed by 12 Wagner boilers produced 150,170 shp, giving a top speed of 30 knots (55.5 km/h) on trials. She carried eight 380 mm guns as main armament in four twin turrets, backed by twelve 150 mm secondary guns, with a crew of 2,065 (103 officers and 1,962 sailors). Displacement ranged from 41,700 t standard to 50,300 t full load, on a hull 251 m (823.5 ft) long, 36 m (118.1 ft) at the beam, drawing 9.9 m (32.5 ft) at full load. Bismarck's career lasted only nine months: after sinking the British battlecruiser HMS Hood, she was hunted down and sunk by the Royal Navy on 27 May 1941 in the North Atlantic.
At a Glance
- ◆Launched 1939, commissioned 1940
- ◆8× 380mm main guns
- ◆Speed 30 knots, 150,170 shp
- ◆Displacement 41,700–50,300 tonnes
- ◆Sunk 27 May 1941, Atlantic
- ◆Built by Blohm & Voss, Germany
Each piece is physically plotted by the studio's precision robot in Québec City, using Stabilo® Fineliners and Sakura® Gelly Roll inks on 250 gsm (120 lb) stock — stroke by stroke, never printed. A physical tip presses into the paper and lays down real ink. The result is a tactile, hand-plotted finish — never printed.
Specifications
> FORMAT: Tabloid Standard [11" x 17"]
> INK SYSTEM: Stabilo® Fineliner / Sakura® Gelly Roll
> SUBSTRATE: 250gsm High-Density Stock [120lb]
> EXECUTION: Precision Vector Plotting
> PRODUCTION: Open · plotted after you order
> ORIGIN: Québec City, Canada
What the robot does. What a person decides.
The robot
- ◆Runs the file
- ◆Draws the hull, the turrets, the superstructure
- ◆Lays down ink, line by line
- ◆Repeats without tiring
A person
- ◆Chooses the ship and the view
- ◆Designs which lines survive from thousands
- ◆Sets pen pressure, speed, and height
- ◆Watches the plot from start to finish
- ◆Signs, numbers, and packs the piece
Drawn by a robot. Designed by a person.
Included
Production timelapse included — every order · no extra cost
Watch your piece being plotted, line by line, by the studio's robot. A personal timelapse of your production is sent with every order — to share, or to keep as a record of how your piece came to be.
Hidden signature
Real footage — an early production piece, shown under blacklight.
A signature only UV light reveals
On the back of every piece, in the same pass as the drawing, we plot a signature invisible under normal light — codeink.art, the piece's name and serial number, the year, and Québec. Shine a blacklight on it and it glows.
“Bismarck sank the Hood in minutes and was hunted for days afterward — one of the most consequential nine-month careers any warship ever had. Reducing it to a few thousand strokes of ink doesn't shrink the history, just the scale.”
Open production, no duplicates
This piece is plotted after you order it — the pen wears down over the hours it takes to draw, so ink density varies slightly and no two lines close exactly the same way. Nothing is corrected or hidden.
There's no cap on how many are made, but each one is drawn individually, signed, and numbered — never a batch, never printed.
A real process, not a printer
Each piece is physically plotted, pen on paper, in Québec City — watch the machine work.
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Real defects — shipping damage, wrong colour, missing lines — are replaced free of charge.
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Numbered and signed
A unique serial number and the date are plotted on the back in UV ink — invisible to the naked eye, laid down in the same pass as the drawing.
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