NUOTIE 1/1000 German Battleship Scharnhorst Diecast Model with Display Base

Product Overview

This 1:1000 model shows the German battleship Scharnhorst in her later-war Baltic camouflage: grey hull sides broken by bold white bands at bow and stern, a red-brown hull below the waterline, warm tan wooden decking, and the pagoda-style bridge tower with rangefinders above. Nine 28 cm guns ride in three triple turrets, the forward pair finished in the pale grey of the same scheme, with rotating bow turrets and a seaplane parked amidships. At this scale the model comes out to about 23.5 cm (9.25 in) long and sits on a light-blue display base with a "Scharnhorst Battleships" nameplate.

Key Features

• 1/1000 scale, about 23.5 cm (9.25 in) long, 3 cm (1.2 in) wide and 4.4 cm (1.7 in) tall
• Diecast metal hull in Baltic camouflage: grey sides with white bands at bow and stern, red-brown below the waterline, tan main deck
• Rotating forward turrets; secondary and anti-aircraft batteries modelled across the deck
• Midships catapult with seaplane, pagoda-style bridge and rangefinders
• Light-blue display base with a "Scharnhorst Battleships" nameplate

The Ship

Scharnhorst was the Kriegsmarine's most successful surface raider. Early in the war she hunted convoys in the North Atlantic with her sister Gneisenau, and in June 1940 she caught and sank the British carrier HMS Glorious. After spells damaged, repaired and relocated to Norway, she sailed on 26 December 1943 to attack a Arctic convoy and was intercepted off North Cape by the battleship HMS Duke of York and escorting cruisers. Pounded by gunfire and torpedoes, she sank that evening; only 36 of her roughly 1,900 crew were rescued. It was the last time a German capital ship fought a gun action at sea.

On the Shelf

The German battleship Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen model sit beside her in this 1/1000 series on matching light-blue bases — the three most recognisable German surface ships of the war, one shelf, one scale.

An Honest Note on Scale

Scharnhorst was about 235 m long, so 23.5 cm is right for a 1/1000 hull. At this scale she is a display piece rather than a loupe subject: the camouflage bands, turret layout and bridge tower read clearly at arm's length, which is what carries the identity here. The hull is diecast metal with painted detailing. The masts, AA barrels and catapult frame are slender castings; dust with a soft brush rather than a cloth.