HMS Belfast 1942 Royal Navy Cruiser HMS Belfast, an improved Southampton-class cruiser, was ordered from Harland & Wolff in 1936, laid down in December that year, and launched on St. Patrick's Day 1938. Commissioned into the Royal Navy on 5 August 1939, the ship played key roles in major conflicts and peacekeeping over 24 years of service. Shortly after joining the fleet, HMS Belfast struck a German magnetic mine in November 1939, which caused significant damage, keeping it out of service for three years.
Rejoining the fleet in 1942 as the Royal Navy's largest cruiser, HMS Belfast helped protect Arctic convoys to Russia and participated in the sinking of the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst in 1943. In 1944, as flagship of Bombardment Force E, she supported the D-Day landings. After World War II, HMS Belfast saw action in the Korean War from 1950 to 1952 before being decommissioned in 1963, ending her active career.
Saved from scrapping by a preservation campaign led by Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, HMS Belfast was turned into a museum ship and opened to the public on 21 October 1971. Moored on the River Thames, she remains a part of the Imperial War Museum, as the last surviving vessel of its type. Since 1994 HMS Belfast has worn Admiralty Disruptive Pattern Camouflage, representing the ship’s WW2 period from late 1942 to mid 1944. Colour references are provided in the kit painting guide.
11 sprues and decks, metal chain, photo-etch. Two-piece hull. Two Walrus seaplanes and display stand included.
L: 534.3 mm, W: 60 mm, Total parts 520+
1:350 scale model kit from AiP, requires paint and glue.
HMS Belfast 1942 Royal Navy Cruiser 1:350 by AIP
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If you wish to cancel your order after it has been dispatched, you will be charged for both delivery and collection cost. You will also need to pay any return costs if you wish to be refunded for your purchase (but not the original delivery costs).
Most orders will dispatched using a tracked system. Please make sure you enter your e mail address and mobile number on your order to receive text notifications.
If there is no one available when our delivery partner tries to deliver your order, they will usually try to deliver again the next working day or they will drop a card in to offer you a collection from a local collection point. If you should refuse delivery of goods, or are not available to accept the delivery on both delivery attempts, you will be required to cover any extra costs incurred.
Royal Mail staff and couriers sometimes leave parcels with a neighbour or in an outbuilding or at the rear or side of the property. If a parcel is too large to go through the letter box Royal Mail may return it to the local sorting office (not the local Post Office) but may not leave a card advising you. First Class may take up to 4 days and second class up to 10 days delivery time. Please check there first before reporting non delivery. Tracked deliveries will be 24 or 48 hour but may take longer especially around a bank holiday.
All quoted delivery prices are for most UK Mainland addresses. Northern Ireland (BT), Isle of Wight (PO30-37), Isle of Man (IM), Scottish Highlands and Orkney Isles (PA, ML, EH, KA, G, KY, PH, DD, AB, IV, KW), Outer Hebrides and the Shetland Isles (HS, ZE), Channel Islands (JE and GY) will incur additional charges and may also experience delivery delays.
We will only deliver goods to the address on the order.
We are closed on Wednesdays, Sundays and bank holidays so do not ship on these days.
Due to postal restrictions we are unable to send liquids, batteries including Lipo/Life and aerosol products by Royal Mail. These have to be sent by courier as they have to go by road. We do not send fuel.
HMS Belfast 1942 Royal Navy Cruiser 1:350 by AIP
Regular price
£89.99
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