Revell The First Bismarck Battle (1:1200) (Giftset) (RVL05668)

Description

Revell 05668 plastic model - the first set of 1:1200 scale Battle of Bismarck dioramas to glue together. The kit contains 76 parts, difficulty 3.

A starter kit for designing your first diorama to present your built models in a realistic environment.

Information about the template:

HMS King George

HMS King George V was the lead ship of a class of four Dreadnought battleships built for the Royal Navy in 1910. She spent most of her career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets, often serving as flagship. Apart from an unsuccessful attempt to intercept the German ships which bombarded Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby in late 1914. Her service during the First World War generally consisted of routine patrols and training in the North Sea.

After the war, King George V became flagship of the Home Fleet and then the Reserve Fleet. In late 1920 she was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. The ship evacuated refugees during the Great Smyrna Fire in September 1922 and then returned home in early 1923. King George V was reduced to reserve and used as a training ship until the end of 1926. Later in the year she was sold for scrap in accordance with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty.

Bismarck

Bismarck, with a displacement of 42,343 tons, was the largest and most modern battleship in the world at the time (along with the British Hood). She was launched on February 14, 1940 at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg and, next to her sister ship Tirpitz, she was the most advanced and prestigious ship in the German Navy. It measured a full 251 m in length and the top of its main mast stood 52 m above sea level. Its protection was represented by a total of 17,450 tons of armor plates. The newly designed heavy guns fired projectiles weighing 800 kg up to a distance of 34.2 km and could penetrate even 350 mm armor from 21 km. On May 24, 1941, Bismarck, together with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, managed to sink the largest British battlecruiser Hood with a direct hit from the fifth salvo from its 380 mm guns in a sea battle at the border of the ice field near Greenland. Although Prinz Eugen did not receive any direct hits, Bismarck, which was damaged in the bow, was to take shelter in a French port. However, in the subsequent pursuit by British ships and aircraft, one of the torpedoes hit the rudder on 27 May 1941, and after a series of further hits by the ships of the Home Fleet, which were clearly outnumbered, Bismarck was crippled and finally sunk in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean 800 km from the French coast. Of the 2092 crew members, only 115 survived.