Tamiya 77520 - 1/700 German Battle Cruiser Gneisenau  [77520]

The Gneisenau went into commission on twenty-first might, 1938. Ranking utilizing the Scharnhorst, she have been the largest and a lot of effective battleship inside the German Fleet of this times. The woman displacement ended up being indeed announced become 26,000 tons, actually the woman standard displacement had been 31,800 tons. The principal armament consisted of nine 28 cm weapons, of smaller in calibre than those for the identical class vessels possessed by other nations. Another armament, but was in fact effective adequate and contains twelve 15 cm guns, fourteen 10 cm AA weapons, sixteen 37 mm AA device weapons, ten 20 mm AA device firearms and six 53 cm torpedo pipelines. She had been protected with strong armour and, regardless of the woman big displacement, had an interest rate of 32 knots. These types of factors combined to help make the Gneisenau one of several first-rank high-speed battlecruisers around the world.