Littorio

The Littorio-class was the first new Italian battleship class for nearly a decade when design work began in 1930. Initially designed to remain within the 35,000-ton Washington Treaty limit, the final displacement was just over 40,000 tons. As well as being good-looking ships, the Littorio-class included a number of new features including high-velocity guns. They were probably the first of the ‘fast battleships’ that would come to dominate capital ship design in the late 1930s and onward. Littorio was put out of action for six months by the famous Taranto air raid. After the Italian surrender Littorio (renamed Italia) was hit and damaged by German glide bombs.

Contains one resin/metal ship with ship card.

Models supplied unassembled and unpainted