HMS Renown, 1/700 by Trumpeter, Model Ship

The Renown class was a class of two battlecruisers of the Royal Navy. The initial expectation of a short war led to their construction being suspended on the grounds they would not be ready in time. Admiral Fisher restarted the building as battlecruisers that could be built and enter service quickly. As a result build time was reduced and they were delivered not long after the battle of Jutland in 1916. Repulse was sunk on 10 December 1941 in the South China Sea off Kuantan, Pahang by Japanese aircraft. Renown survived the war, to be scrapped in 1948. « less