NUOTIE 1/1000 German Heavy Cruiser Prinz Eugen Diecast Model with Display Base

Product Overview

This 1:1000 model shows the German heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as she sailed in 1941: grey hull sides broken by black-and-white chevron bands, a red-brown hull below the waterline, tan wooden decking, and eight 20.3 cm guns carried in four triple turrets fore and aft. The tower bridge rises amidships with the aircraft catapults and cranes around it, and a seaplane sits on deck. At this scale the model comes out to about 21 cm (8.3 in) long and sits on a light-blue display base with a "Prinz Eugen Heavy Cruiser" nameplate.

Key Features

• 1/1000 scale, about 21 cm (8.3 in) long, 2 cm (0.8 in) wide and 5 cm (2 in) tall
• Diecast metal hull: grey sides with black-and-white chevron bands, red-brown below the waterline, tan main deck
• Four triple turrets, tower bridge, catapults and cranes with a seaplane on deck
• Secondary and anti-aircraft batteries modelled along the hull
• Light-blue display base with a "Prinz Eugen Heavy Cruiser" nameplate

The Ship

Prinz Eugen is remembered as the ship that never sank. In May 1941 she escorted the Bismarck into the Atlantic on Operation Rheinübing and escaped the hunt that ended her flagship. In February 1942 she took part in the Channel Dash past the Royal Navy's home waters. She outlasted the war itself — the only major German surface ship to do so — surrendered at Copenhagen in May 1945, and was handed to the United States. The Americans took her to the Pacific and moored her at Bikini as a target for the atomic tests of Operation Crossroads; she survived both blasts, only to capsize months later with her sea valves unattended. Her model outlived every battleship that served beside her.

On the Shelf

Her May 1941 companion, the German battleship Bismarck, is in the same 1/1000 series on a matching base — the flagship that sank and the cruiser that escaped, side by side. The German battleship Scharnhorst completes the German shelf in the same scale.

An Honest Note on Scale

Prinz Eugen was about 208 m long, so 21 cm is right for a 1/1000 hull. At this scale she is a display piece rather than a loupe subject: the chevron bands, turret layout and tower bridge read clearly at arm's length, which is what carries the identity here. The hull is diecast metal with painted detailing. The masts, cranes and AA barrels are slender castings; dust with a soft brush rather than a cloth.