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Italeri: Admiral Graf Spee Reissue
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Posted: Friday, November 13, 2015 - 06:31 AM UTC


Italeri has re-issues their 1/720 kit of the Kriegsmarine 'Pocket Battleship', Graf Spee. She was commissioned in 1936 and originally called 'Panzerschiff' - armored ship - armed with 11" guns in two triple turrets and designed to out run what she couldn't out fight.

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Posted: Friday, November 13, 2015 - 08:07 PM UTC
I built the Deutschland (a variant of this Graf Spee kit) back when it was issued by Testors/Italeri in the 1980s. Especially for the time, the detail was fantastic! Comparable to the best of the Tamiya 1/700 kits of the time, these old Italeri 1/720 kits still stand up today.
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