Description

1/200 German Scharnhorst Battleship

Trumpeter 03715

Excludes allglues,paints and toolsnecessary to assemble.

Battleship Scharnhorst is Scharnhorst class first ship, ship types are divided into battleships, the initial design can dress up as a 380 mm main gun battleship jumped to meet future war, but during World War II and not implemented. Scharnhorst was built by the War Naval Shipyard Wilhelmshaven, Germany, on October 3, 1936 launch, and began service on January 7, 1939.

In 1938, Scharnhorst found insufficient premium bow freeboard in the trials, docking bow refit in 1939. After the outbreak of World War II, in 1940 in the North Sea Scharnhorst Premium sank two ships of the Royal Navy aircraft carrier Glorious and two destroyers, but Scharnhorst was hit by the British destroyer fired torpedoes and water, then drydocking repairs.

In 1941, the Scharnhorst broke into the Atlantic Ocean, at sea and destroy operations. In the two-month operation co sunk 22 merchant fleets, with a total tonnage of 11,5000 tons, greatly damaging the Allied shipping.

December 25, 1943, Scharnhorst sailed convoy attack allies, suffered the main fleet of the Royal Navy battleship Duke of York lead to the interception, was to attack the British, was eventually sunk by Duke of York.

• Scale: 1:200
• Item Type: Plastic Model Warship Kit
• Model Brief: Length: 1175mm Beam: 150mm
• Total Parts: 1600+
• Metal Parts: anchor chain, shaft
• Photo Etched Parts: 6 pcs
• Total Sprues: 25 sprues, hull, superstructure and decks
• Released Date: 2020-11
• More Features: One-piece hull made from two-directional slide molds,Deck pattern finely rendered, Accurately detailed gun,6 pieces of photo-etched frets for handrails, ladders, radar parts etc.
  – includes 2 Ar196 waterplane