Ironclad Battleship Dingyuan (1881) 1/700

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Built In The Early 1880S In Germany, Dingyuan (定遠), And Her Sister-Ship Zhengyuan (鎮遠) Are The Only Battleships Ever Commissioned By China. Both Ships Served In The Beiyang Fleet During The Sino-Japanese War. Both Where At The Battle Of The Yalu River, And Proved To Be Impervious To Most Japanese Guns Of The Time. Unfortunately For The Chinese, Dingyuan, Which Was The Beiyang Fleet Flagship, Fired Her Main Guns Forward, Which Destroyed The Command Deck, Resulting In All The Chinese Officers To Be Killed Or Wounded. The Rest Of The Fleet, Without Any Direction, Performed Poorly Until The End Of The Battle. The Two Battleship Then Took Part In The Battle Of Weihaiwei, Where Zhengyuan Was Captured By The Japanese And Dingyuan Destroyed. Renamed Chin Yen By The Japanese, Zhengyuan Participated In The Russo Japanese War, Notably During The Famous Tsushima Battle Where She Engaged The Battleship Kniaz Sovorov. She Was Retired From Service In 1911 And Scrapped. Her Anchors Where Returned To China After Ww2 In 1947. The Model Is Intended For 1/700 Scale. I Decided To Replace The Masts By Copper Tubes Because They Proved Very Fragile For The Rigging.

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