1/350 German Z-38 Destroyer (Smart Kit)

Germany produced a total of 15 Zerstörer 1936A-class destroyers which the Allies referred to as the Narvik class. They were actually closer in size to a light cruiser than a destroyer and they were known only by their hull numbers and didn’t receive any name. They sported powerful 5.9-inch guns with the last three destroyers constructed by F. Krupp Germaniawerft AG in Kiel. Z38 was the penultimate destroyer of the class after being commissioned on 20 March 1943. One of its first combat missions was to escort the Scharnhorst battleship and near the end of the war it operated in the Baltic Sea as German forces retreated. Z38 had a combat displacement of 3691 tons and required a crew of 330 sailors. After WWII it was seized by the UK and used as a test ship under the name Nonsuch before being scrapped in 1950.

• Scale is 1:350
• Newly tooled aft-superstructure
• Newly designed bridge made by slide-mould technology
• One-piece slide-moulded upper hull w/undercut details realistically represented
• Waterline of full-hull version can be assembled
• Highly detailed portholes moulded on hull
• Single AA gun with finest details
• Delicate mines reproduced
• Bilge keels are represented on lower hull by slide-mould technology
• Sumatra radar faithfully replicated
• 20mm Naval-vierling with finest details
• Detailed 533mm torpedo launcher reproduced
• Realistically detailed slide-moulded gun barrels w/hollow ends
• 150mm twin turret w/2 square life rafts is reproduced
• 127mm single turret delicately reproduced
• Delicately detailed funnel
• Realistic photo-etched funnel cap grills with finest details
• Extra-thin shield walls on superstructure for accurate 1/350 scale appearance
• Detailed torpedo locker
• The mast is intricately reproduced
• Accurate workboat and captain's boat included
• Winch and mine rails accurately replicated
• Highly detailed superstructure with moulded-on details
• Delicate ventilation grill area accurately portrayed
• Square life rafts are realistically produced
• Includes 5 realistic 1/350 scale figures