Description

1/700 HMS Rodney

Trumpeter 06718

Excludes all glues, paints and tools necessary to assemble.

November 28, 1922, HMS Rodney started the Cammel-Laird shipyard inBirkenhead, launching on November 7, 1925, and named after the 18th and 19th-century British naval star Rodney; November 1927on the 10th HMS Rodney completed.

During World War II, HMS Rodney and its sister ship HMS Nelson, better known as 1940 HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson join the Norwegian campaign, and rounded up German pocket battleship DKM Sher will the action April 1940 near Bergen, Norway by German bombers, and wounded. On May 27, 1941, HMS Rodney took part in the action to surround and annihilate the German battleship DKM Bismarck. During the battle, Rodney lost the ability to effectively fight back the Bismarck fired over 380 rounds of 16-inch shells.

Soon, HMS Rodney to the Mediterranean as a convoy escort mission to Malta together with the HMS Nelson escorting combat. From the end of 1942 to 1944, with HMS Nelson No. join the landing in NorthAfrica, and Sicily, landing, and support the Allied landing the Italian territory. HMS Rodney 1944, the unprecedented scale of theNormandy landings, is one of the landings spent six battleships.

After the war, in 1945, HMS Rodney 1945 and transferred to the reserve in March 1948 was the sale of disintegration.

• Scale 1/700
• Length: 309.5mm
• Beam: 45.5mm
• Total parts: 320+
• Includes photo-etch
• Total sprues: 12
• Lower hull made from multi-directional slide moulds.
  
• Deck wood pattern finely rendered
  
• Contains engraved nameplate
  
• Photo-etched frets included