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HMS Jervis was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy named after Admiral John Jervis. She was laid down by R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Limited, at Hebburn-on-Tyne on 26 August 1937. The ship was launched on 9 September 1938 and commissioned on 8 May 1939, four months before the opening of hostilities.

The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Jervis gets a model kit release from Aoshima! Its proportions are perfectly reproduced, down to the shape of the bridge, its rear personnel room and its various armaments; a set of general-purpose decals are included to convert it to other J-class destroyers.

This is an injection-plastic ship model kit.

Inlcudes

• Decals

Hasegawa adds to their 1/350 IJN fleet with this release of the light cruiser Yahagi as it appeared during Operation Ten Ichi-Go, the suicidal mission of the IJN battleship Yamato and its escorts to defend Okinawa in April of 1945. The Yahagi was lost in the ensuing battle. The detail of this kit is phenomenal, as on all of Hasegawa's recent 1/350 kits. Includes a pamphlet on the history of the Yahagi, plus a marking/painting/main rigging reference chart. A full-hull model, with elegant display stands. Instructions are in Japanese and English.

Specification

• Scale: 1/350
• Static display model, length: 498.5 mm, 511 pieces + bonus: poster (594 x 841 mm)

The Type VIIC U-boat was the workhorse of the German underwater force, with 568 produced from 1940 to 1945. The Type VIIC was an effective fighting machine and was seen almost everywhere U-boats operated, although its range of only 8500 nautical miles was not as great as that of the larger Type IX (11,000 nautical miles), severely limiting the time it could spend in the far reaches of the western and southern Atlantic without refueling from a tender or U-boat tanker. The VIIC came into service near the beginning of the war and was still the most numerous type in service when Allied anti-submarine efforts finally defeated the U-boat campaign in late 1943 and 1944.

Features

• Painting and assembly required
• 2 sprues
• High-quality plastic
• Build both VIIC and IXC versions
• Waterline builds
• Simple assembly
• Includes sinking ship in bow and stern pieces
• Molded in grey
• Illustrated instructions in Japanese

Specification

• Scale: 1/700
• Skill Level: 2
• Length: 9.6”
• Height: 3.5”
• Parts: 25+

A ship which represented the first of a new breed of vessel for the modern Royal Navy, HMS Devonshire (D02) was the first of the Navy's new County-class Destroyers, which were designed around the Seaslug surface to air missile system. A fleet defender designed to knock out high flying enemy aircraft before they could release their stand-off anti-shipping munitions, Devonshire was launched in June 1960 and commissioned in November 1962 and was the first vessel of her type to enter Royal Navy service and the first operational Royal Navy ship to fire the Seaslug missile. The missile was only used in action once and this was when HMS Antrim fired Seaslugs during the Falklands War, but it has to be said with somewhat disappointing results.

Decommissioned in 1978, she would spend the next six years languishing in Portsmouth harbour, as a proposed sale to the Egyptian Navy fell through. For such a notable ship, she would meet a rather ignominious end as a target ship, sunk by HMS Splendid in the North Atlantic on 17th July 1984, only days after serving as a floating target during Sea-Eagle anti-ship missile trials.

Specification

• 1:600 Scale
• Parts Included: 80
• Skill Level: 3
• Scheme Options: 1