Trumpeter Scale Models 5361 1/350 German Battleship Scharnhorst

Model Kit

Few capital ships of the Second World War captured the imagination quite like the German battleship Scharnhorst. Commissioned in 1939 as part of Germanys ambitious naval expansion, she and her sister Gneisenau represented a new generation of fast, heavily armored surface raiders designed to challenge Allied sea lanes. Her early-war Atlantic sortiesmost notably Operation Berlin in 1941demonstrated the potency of the Kriegsmarines commerce warfare strategy, sinking or capturing over 100,000 tons of Allied shipping and forcing the Royal Navy to divert significant resources in pursuit.

The ships career culminated in the dramatic Battle of the North Cape in December 1943, where she engaged British forces in Arctic waters while attempting to disrupt convoys bound for the Soviet Union. Outgunned and ultimately overwhelmed by radar-directed fire from HMS Duke of York and accompanying cruisers and destroyers, she met her end in a fierce surface action that marked one of the last classic battleship engagements in European waters.

FEATURES:

• Scale: 1:350
• Length: 672.6mm
• Beam: 85.7mm
• Total Parts: 990+
• Metal Parts: shaft, anchor chain
• Photo Etched Parts: 5 pcs
• Total Sprues: 17 sprues, decks and hull
• Hull made from two-directional slide molds
• Deck wood pattern finely rendered
• Contains display stand