Fordboy SAID
Ahoy Shipmates As you know the news desk is always hunting out the latest news from around the world for you. So here is the latest and greatest details on the new 2009 release from Trumpeter. You just have to check it out! Link to Item If you have comments or questions please post them here. Thanks! Sean

JayTDee SAID
This looks like a really nice kit. How does the Academy kit look in comparison?

CMOT70 SAID
And with Prinz Eugen still on the way, all that is needed now is Scharnhorst/Gneisenau to have all the major German heavy classes as new tool model kits in 1/350.

warshipbuild SAID
Top News! So when can I get one? Looks like there might be a chance for Admiral Scheer & Deutschland too.

ONSLOW SAID
Good news,but,I do wish they had done the Admiral Scheer,and left the Spee to Academy. Phil

goldenpony SAID
Well, that is certianly wonderful news. I can say my bank account is going to shutter this coming summer. C|:-)

Tomfan SAID
Nice.. Graff Spee and Prinz Eguen, have to buy them both..

blaster76 SAID
My only question...are they going to chaarge BB or HC price on this one. Afterall, it an't a BB by any stretch with only 6 11" and light armor. It does exceede HC though with the 11" but most of those had 8 to 9 of those. But what a beauty. Glad they did this one ovr one of the sisters, I like the solid bridge rather than those small skinny ones on pole. It is going to be one heck of a summer, with Myoko due out, Repulse and Eugen and Spee as well. At least I've gotsome recovfery time a...

JayTDee SAID
While I obviously don't know which price Trumpeter is going to set for this, the Kriegsmarine officially called the pocket battleships "Heavy Cruisers" from 1940 on. Until then they were known as "Armored Ships". Graf Spee in the depicted configuration therefore is an Armored Ship. At any rate, heavy cruiser hits the nail on the head. They just have a different balance of firepower and speed than most other ships of that size/designation.

allycat SAID
Hi All, I was reading M. J. Whitley's German Capital Ships last week, and looking at the photos it appears Scheer and Spee were quite similar before Scheer was refitted with the pole type bridge structure and had her bows rebuilt at the start of the war. (there's a photo of Scheer's bridge on page 27 which at first glance I took as Spee's until I checked the various platform spacings and sizes comparison photo available onpage 88) They were both built to virtually the same design except Spee g...