NUOTIE 1/1250 HMT Mauretania Dazzle Camouflage Troopship Diecast Model with Display Base

Product Overview

This 1:1250 model shows HMT Mauretania as she sailed in the First World War: no longer the Cunard speed queen, but a requisitioned troopship wearing dazzle camouflage. Angular shapes in blue-grey, white and black run across hull sides and all four funnels, with the warm yellow of the upper decks breaking through between them. At this scale the model comes out to about 25.5 cm (10 in) long and sits on a red wood-finish display base with a gold "HMT MAURETANIA" nameplate.

Key Features

• 1/1250 scale, about 25.5 cm (10 in) long, 2.5 cm (1 in) wide and 7 cm (2.8 in) tall on the base
• Diecast ABS hull painted in First World War dazzle camouflage: blue-grey, white and black geometric shapes over hull sides and funnels
• Four patterned funnels, yellow-toned upper decks, masts and slender rigging modelled in
• Gold propellers and centre rudder at the stern
• Red wood-finish display base with a gold "HMT MAURETANIA" nameplate

The Ship

Mauretania entered service for Cunard in 1907 and held the Blue Riband — the fastest Atlantic crossing — for more than twenty years, a streak no rival broke until 1929. When war came she first served as a troopship, wearing the dazzle paint this model reproduces, and later spells as a hospital ship carrying wounded soldiers home. She returned to passenger service in 1919 and kept sailing until 1934, finally laid up after Cunard's newer liners took over her route. She was scrapped in 1935 — by then, sailors and passengers had called her "Old Maure" for three decades.

On the Shelf

Her running mate RMS Lusitania is available in the same 1/1250 series, finished in her peacetime Cunard colours, and the two make a natural pair. For another First World War troopship in dazzle paint, the HMT Olympic model repeats the effect on White Star's eldest sister. All sit on the same style of display base.

An Honest Note on Scale

Mauretania herself was about 240 m long, so a strict 1/1250 hull would run just over 19 cm; this model stretches to 25.5 cm, a touch large for the scale but consistent across the series. At 1/1250 she is a display piece rather than a loupe subject: the dazzle shapes, deck lines and funnels read clearly at arm's length, which is what carries the identity here. The hull is diecast ABS with painted detailing — light in the hand — so the base does the anchoring. The masts and rigging wire are slender castings; dust with a soft brush rather than a cloth.