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Z20 Karl Galster German Navy Destroyer 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 Z20 Karl Galster, 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 Z20 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 Z20 Karl Galster is a Type 1936 destroyer built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine by AG Weser in Bremen — launched on 15 June 1937 and commissioned on 21 March 1939. Two Wagner geared steam turbines fed by six Wagner boilers produced 70,000 PS, giving a design speed of 36 knots (67 km/h) and 39 knots (72 km/h) on trials. She carried five single 12.7 cm main guns, backed by twin 3.7 cm and single 2 cm anti-aircraft guns, plus two quadruple 53.3 cm torpedo tube mounts — eight tubes in all — with a crew of 323 (10 officers). Displacement ranged from 2,411 long tons standard to 3,415 long tons deep load, on a hull 125.1 m (410.4 ft) long, 11.8 m (38.7 ft) at the beam, drawing 4.5 m (14.8 ft). She survived the war and was handed to the Soviet Union as a war prize, serving as Prochnyy before being scrapped in 1958.
At a Glance
- ◆Launched 1937, commissioned 1939
- ◆5× 12.7cm main guns
- ◆Speed 36 knots (39 on trials)
- ◆8 torpedo tubes, 53.3cm
- ◆War prize to USSR, 1945
- ◆Built by AG Weser, 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 guns, the torpedo tubes
- ◆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.
“Most German destroyers of her class never survived the war at all — this one did, and ended up serving under a different flag for over a decade after. Reducing her to a few thousand strokes of ink is a way of keeping both halves of that story.”
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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