BRICKSHIPS

Instructions Only!

• Approximate cost for the parts on Bricklink: ~150$ - ~200$ (shipping and handling fees not included)

After your purchase I will send you an email containing the link to download the PDF-instructions as well as the .xml file for the partslist on Bricklink. The time this will take might vary a bit, but will usually always be within 24 hours.

Details about the model:

• Length: 43.2 cm (17.0in)

• Width: 5.2 cm (2.0in)

• Height: 13 cm (5.1in)

• Scale: 1:485

• Total parts: 813

• Features poseable turrets and gun barrels

About the ship's history:

The Prinz Eugen was the third Admiral Hipper-Class cruiser developed by the Kriegsmarine. Prinz Eugen and the light cruiser KMS Nürnberg were the only major vessels of the Kriegsmarine to survive the war in serviceable condition.

The Prinz Eugen was laid down on 23 April 1936, launched on 22 August 1938 and commissioned on 1 August 1940. She was then soon selected to join the battleship Bismarck on operation Rheinübung, but the start of the operation was delayed due to repairs on Prinz Eugen after she detonated a British magnetic mine. The repairs were completed on 11 May 1941 and the ship rendezvoused with Bismarck a week later to depart for Norway. While anchoring in Norway, the two ships were spotted by a British Supermarine Spitfire and the British Navy dispatched the battlecruiser HMS Hood and the battleship HMS Prince of Wales in response to intercept the German ships.

As the two German ships were crossing through Denmark Strait on the morning of 24 May 1941 they encountered the aforementioned British ships which opened fire on 5:52. Prinz Eugen scored multiple hits on Hood and Prince of Wales and after Hood was sunk by Bismarck and Prince of Wales withdrew due to being severely damaged the two German ships continued to advance further into the Atlantic. As Bismarck needed to return to France to repair, Prinz Eugen was ordered to continue the operation. But on 27 May 1941 after Bismarck had been sunk she was ordered to abandon the mission and head for an occupied port in France, for which the port of Brest was chosen.

While being repaired in Brest, Prinz Eugen was heavily damaged during a British air raid and needed to be repaired until the end of 1941. Prinz Eugen then returned to the Baltic Sea via the English Channel in operation Cerberus. On 21 February Prinz Eugen was damaged by the British submarine Trident and needed to be repaired once more until October 1942 and conducted Sea trials for the rest of the year. As in 1943 it became clear that it would be impossible to relocate the ship to Norway, Prinz Eugen was reassigned as a training ship for nine months and returned to combat duty in October 1943.

During the rest of the war Prinz Eugen mainly provided support with her main guns in the fight against the Soviet Army. When the war ended the ship was decommissioned and turned over to the Royal Navy and was later awarded as war prize to the United States. They then used the ship as a target ship during the tests of nuclear weapons in the Bikini Atoll in 1946. Prinz Eugen survived both explosions mostly unscathed, but as the ship wasn't being maintained due to radiation danger its condition gradually became worse until she ultimately capsized at the Kwajalein Atoll.