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Adding to their line of Queen Elizabeth Class of battleships, Trumpeter has announced a 1939 variant for the HMS Valiant. This kit is listed as to be available in March 2015.

Valiant was the third commissioned Elizabeth Class battleship and entered service in 1915. She fired 288 rounds in the Battle of Jutland in 1916 and suffered no damaged herself though some of her sister ships had been severely.

In the Second World War, she took part in Operation Catapult, the attack on French ships at Mers-el-Kébir in 1940. In late 1941, she had suffered damage in the Alexandria harbor by Italian frogmen riding the two-man "human torpedoes". In 1944 she joined the Eastern Fleet where she took part in raids against Japanese bases in Indonesia.

This kit (No. 5796) is made up of 290 parts, including photo-etched details and two aircraft. Trumpeter has a suggested retail price of $52.95