Tamiya 77520 - 1/700 German Battle Cruiser Gneisenau 田宮軍事模型食水綫系列 雙星孖星  [77520]

The Gneisenau went into payment on 21st May, 1938. Ranking utilizing the Scharnhorst, she was the biggest and a lot of powerful battleship in the German Fleet of the times. Her displacement was in fact announced to be 26,000 tons, but in reality the girl standard displacement ended up being 31,800 tons. The main armament contains nine 28 cm guns, that have been smaller in calibre than those of the identical class vessels possessed by other nations. The other armament, but had been powerful sufficient and consisted of twelve 15 cm firearms, fourteen 10 cm AA guns, sixteen 37 mm AA device firearms, ten 20 mm AA device firearms and six 53 cm torpedo pipes. She ended up being protected with strong armour and, notwithstanding the woman large displacement, had a speed of 32 knots. All of these factors combined to help make the Gneisenau one of the first-rank high-speed battlecruisers worldwide.