Trumpeter Ship Models 1/700 HMS Rodney British Battleship (New Variant) Kit

November 28, 1922, HMS Rodney started Cammel-Laird shipyard in Birkenhead, launching on November 7, 1925, and named after the 18th and 19th-century British naval star Rodney; November 1927on the 10th HMS Rodney completed.

During World War II, HMS Rodney than its sister ship HMS Nelson, better known 1940 HMS Rodney and HMS Nelson join the Norwegian campaign, and rounded up German pocket battleship DKM Sher will the action April 1940 near Bergen, Norway by German bombers, and wounded. May 27, 1941, HMS Rodney took part in the action to surround and annihilate the German battleship DKM Bismarck. Battle, Rodney has lost the ability to effectively fight back the fired over 380 rounds of 16-inch shells.

Soon, HMS Rodney to the Mediterranean as a convoy escort mission to together with the HMS Nelson escorting combat. The end of 1942 to 1944, with HMS Nelson No., join the landing in North Africa, Sicily, landing, and support the Allied landing the Italian territory. HMS Rodney 1944, the unprecedented scale of the landings, is one of the landings spent six battleships.

After the war, in 1945, HMS Rodney in 1945 and transferred to reserve in March 1948 was the sale of disintegration.

• 320+ Parts
• Lower hull made from multi-directional slide molds
  
• Deck wood pattern finely rendered
  
• Contains engraved nameplate 
  
• Photo-etched frets included