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Dragon Models is pleased to announce its newest 1/700 ship, German Zerstorer Z-39.

Images and Info from Dragon


Features:
- One waterline and one full hull version can be assembled
- Upper hull w/undercut details realistically represented
- Intricate bridge rendered w/authentic details
- Realistic photo-etched funnel cap grills w/finest details
- Photo-etched FuMO 27 radar is accurately presented
- Photo-etched FuMO 63 radar is accurately presented
- Delicate winch and detailed mine rails are accurately replicated
- Sumatra radar faithfully replicated
- Realistic 3m rangefinder produced
- 53.3cm torpedo launcher molded
- Accurate workboat stowage and captain's boat are included
- Square life rafts are realistically produced
- Realistically detailed slide-molded gun barrels w/hollow ends
- Slide-molded 15cm twin turret
- 12.7cm single-gun turret delicately reproduced
- 3-directional slide-molded twin 15cm gun turret
- 3.7cm LM42 intricately reproduced
- Delicate twin FlaK 38 LM43
- 2cm Naval-vierling w/finest details
- 3.7cm twin anti-aircraft gun w/fine details

Dragon previously launched an exquisitely detailed model of the German Z39 Zerstörer in 1/350 scale. This stunning kit was on a par with the impressive Scharnhorst battleship kit in the same scale. Dragon is now following up with another model of the Z39, this time in 1/700 scale. The kit is the very first German destroyer that Dragon has created in this convenient scale. That means that the whole kit is brand new, except for miscellaneous pieces of equipment that are found in common with other German warships. As usual, the box includes two hulls allowing shipbuilders to create either a waterline or full-hull version. To maintain Dragon’s high standards, slide-mold technology is widely employed. The superstructures, for instance, are made by multi-directional slide molds. The gun turrets are also slide molded, and the guns can be moved up and down for extra realism.

For those not familiar with the Z39, a quick introduction would be useful. Known as Zerstörer 1936A-class destroyers (the Allies referred to them as the Narvik class), a total of 15 ships were built. They were actually closer in size to light cruisers than to destroyers, and vessels received numbers rather than names in keeping with ships built after WWII began. The class sported powerful 5.9-inch guns, and Z39 was the last of the class. Commissioned on 21 August 1943, Z39 operated in Jutland before being dispatched to the Baltic Sea in early 1944. Soviet bombers damaged it in June 1944, and when it was sent to Kiel for repairs it was hit by another bomb. Upon returning to operational duty in February 1945 it saw little further action. This 1/700 scale model may be smaller than the earlier kit, but thankfully no detail is lost in the transformation.