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<h3>English Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson‘s "H.M.S. Victory", three-Decker-vessel that was involved in the Trafalgar battle and is the Royal Navy fifth vessel of that name. </h3> <p>On 28th October 1760 the ship was officially named "Victory". In 1777 Great Britain was at war again and on 8th May 1778 the completed vessel was launched as Admiral Vessel under the command of Admiral Lord Keppel to fight her first battle against the French fleet near the Brittany coast. April 1803 she was armed again, with her appearance very different. Most of the golden ornamentation had been changed, or had been deleted. When she then went back to sea she had the looks that are much admired today. In 1825, the vessel became Portsmouth Chief Admiral Headquarters and kept this honor until 1869. The honor was restored to her 32 years later in 1901. In 1921, the Nautical Research Society, whose president was Lord Milford Haven, organized a campaign to save the Victory and on 12th January she was moved into the oldest dry dock in the world: Portsmouth Dock N°2. It is in this dock that she can still be admired, and remains in remarkable condition.</p> <p><em>Note: The instructions, which are also available separately, are already included with the purchase of the model kit and do not have to be purchased separately.</em></p> <h3>Specifications</h3> <ul> <li>Parts: 2107<br> </li> <li>Packaging: 515 x 730 x 120 mm</li> </ul>

<p>Kaga was laid down in 1920 at the Kobe Kawasaki Shipyard as a 40,000 ton class large battleship equipped with a 40 cm gun following the Nagato class battleship. </p> <h3>Features</h3> <ul> <li>Highly detailed plastic model kit</li> <li>Assembly required. Requires glue and paint sold separately </li> <li>1:700 scale</li> </ul>

<p>The battleship Missouri was authorized by the United States Congress in 1939 and laid down on 6 January, 1941 at the Brooklyn Navy Yad. Missouri was launched just over three years later, in January 1944, and commissioned on June 11, 1944. Though two sister ships were being built at that time, they were never completed, making the Missouri the last battleship completed for the U.S. Navy. Her eight boilers and four steam turbines generated 212,000 shaft horsepower, and coupled with her great length of 887 feet (270m), Missouri was capable of 33 knots. She was designed to fit through the Panama Canal with only one foot (30.5cm) of clearance on either side. Her nine 16-inch (40.6cm) guns were the most powerful ever fitted to a U.S. Navy battleship, and could fire 2,700-pond (1,224kg) shells at targets 40,000 yards (36,200m) away.</p> <p>The Missouri joined the 5th Fleet in the Pacific in January 1945, and fought at the battle of Okinawa and also bombarded Japan. She shot down several aircraft and was hit by one Kamikaze suicide aircraft that did no damage. The Missouri was selected to be the site of the formal surrender of Japan to the Allied Powers, which took place on board September 2, 1945. She remained in commission after the war, and was the only battleship available at the start of the Korean War in 1953. She served two tours of duty in the Korean waters.</p> <p>Missouri was decommissioned and placed in reserve in 1955. From 1984 to 1986, the Missouri was modernised at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Old radar systems and weapons were replaced with new SPS-49 radar, Tomahawk cruise missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. After an around-the-world cruise, the Missouri escorted tankers in the Persian Gulf in 1987. During Operation Desert Storm in January 1991, Missouri fired 28 Tomahawk missiles at Iraqi targets and fired her main armament at shore targets in Iraqi-occupied Kuwait. Two Iraqi Silkworm missiles were fired at Missouri on Feb. 23, 1991. One missed and the other was shot down by HSM Gloucester.</p> <p>Missouri was decommissioned again in March 1992, and is now a museum ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.</p> <h3>Specification</h3> <ul> <li>Mold Color: Gray</li> <li>Item Size/Weight: 82.5 x 21.3 x 10.3 cm / 1610g</li> </ul> <h3>Includes</h3> <ul> <li>Photo-etched parts, decals</li> </ul>

<p>The LCM (Landing Craft Mechanized) was the most widely used type of tank-carrying landing craft in WWII and more than 8,500 were built in American yards between 1942 and 1945. As British had no tank-carrying craft lighter than LCT (Landing Craft Tank) s, LCMs were also readily adopted by Royal Navy. LCMs could be either carried on ship davits, or towed across the English Channel. Due to the danger of swamping in rough seas, most LCMs were towed across the Channel and not loaded with troops until the mornings of D-Day. LCMs could be readily identified by their unique perforated bow ramp. As tanks grew larger and heavier, the LCM (3) was developed with a longer hull and greater buoyancy, which allowed a 30-ton tank to be carried. They could also handle up to 30 tons of cargo or 60 troops. LCM (3) had a crew of 4 men and was armed with two 50-caliber machine guns. The LCM was not designed for the crew to live aboard and it remained dependent upon a parent ship over long periods of time. The most important role played by LCMs on D-Day was transporting the engineer teams assigned to demolish the beach obstacles.</p> <h3>Specification</h3> <ul> <li>Model Brief Length: 435 mm Width: 121mm</li> <li>Total Parts: 161pcs</li> <li>Photo Etched Parts: For machine gun brackets<br> </li> <li>Total Sprues: 6pcs plus hull</li> <li>Paint Schemes: USN 1944 during the Normandy Landings</li> </ul>

<p>Trumpeter's kit of the USS New York features precision molded superstructures, and includes vehicles (AAV-7, LCAC, LCU) and carrier-based aircraft (CH-46E, CH-53, MV-22, AH-1W, and UH-1N). It can be assembled as a full-hull or waterline model, and photo-etched parts are included too. Order yours today!<br></p>

<p>Hasegawa brings us a 1/350-scale model kit of the Japanese battleship Mutsu as she was seen at the start of the war in 1941 (Combined Fleet 1st Squadron)! Photo-etched parts for the handrails are included</p> <h3>Specification</h3> <ul> <li>Combined Fleet First Squadron from 1941 at the outbreak of war</li> <li>Model Length: 643mm</li> <li>Model Width: 110mm</li> </ul>