Trumpeter | 1/200 German Bismarck Battleship Unboxing | #askHearns

Published 29 January 2022

BJ has a detailed look at the big Trumpeter 1/200 Bismarck kit.
This is a magnificent kit with plenty of fine parts for detail and many sheets of photo-etched parts.
There is also a bonus clear and interior detailed main gun as an option.

More information:
www.hearnshobbies.com/products/trumpeter-1-200-german-bismarck-battleship

Model Brief :
Length: 1265mm : Beam: 181mm
Total Parts : 1700+
Metal Parts : anchor chain , propeller shaft,
Photo Etched Parts : 13 sheets
Total Sprues : 45 sprues, hull, decks and superstructure
Released Date : 2012-09
More Features "One-piece hull made from two-directional slide molds
- The Deck is a single piece casting:
- 4 sprues for 4 Ar196 w fine details.
- Accurately detailed gun
- 13 pieces of photo etched frets for handrails, ladders, radar parts etc.
Bonus : A full structure main gun turret with two metal gun barrel"

Bismarck was the first of two Bismarck-class battleships built for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. Named after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, the ship was laid down at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg in July 1936 and launched in February 1939. Work was completed in August 1940, when she was commissioned into the German fleet. Bismarck and her sister ship Tirpitz were the largest battleships ever built by Germany, and two of the largest built by any European power.

Bismarck conducted only one offensive operation, lasting 8 days in May 1941, codenamed Rheinübung. The ship, along with the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, was to break into the Atlantic Ocean and raid Allied shipping from North America to Great Britain. The two ships were detected several times off Scandinavia, and British naval units were deployed to block their route. At the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the battlecruiser HMS Hood initially engaged Prinz Eugen, probably by mistake, while HMS Prince of Wales engaged Bismarck. In the ensuing battle Hood was destroyed by the combined fire of Bismarck and Prinz Eugen, which then damaged Prince of Wales and forced her retreat. Bismarck suffered sufficient damage from three hits to force an end to the raiding mission.

The destruction of Hood spurred a relentless pursuit by the Royal Navy involving dozens of warships. Two days later, heading for occupied France to effect repairs, Bismarck was attacked by 16 Fairey Swordfish biplane torpedo bombers from the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal; one scored a hit that rendered the battleship's steering gear inoperable. In her final battle the following morning, the already-crippled Bismarck was engaged by two British battleships and two heavy cruisers, and sustained incapacitating damage and heavy loss of life. The ship was scuttled to prevent her being boarded by the British, and to allow the ship to be abandoned so as to limit further casualties. Most experts agree that the battle damage would have caused her to sink eventually.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck
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