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

The Gneisenau went into payment on twenty-first May, 1938. Ranking using the Scharnhorst, she had been the biggest and most effective battleship in German Fleet of the days. The Woman displacement was indeed established become 26,000 tons, but in reality the girl standard displacement had been 31,800 tons. The primary armament consisted of nine 28 cm firearms, which were smaller in calibre than those of the identical course ships possessed by other nations. One other armament, but ended up being powerful enough and consisted of twelve 15 cm firearms, fourteen 10 cm AA firearms, sixteen 37 mm AA machine guns, ten 20 mm AA device firearms and six 53 cm torpedo tubes. She ended up being protected with strong armour and, regardless of her large displacement, had a rate of 32 knots. All of these factors combined to make the Gneisenau one of the first-rank high-speed battlecruisers on the planet.