To Submarine fans--We would like to proudly announce the release of our 1:350 HMVS Cerberus (1868) Breastwork Monitor Model Kit!
Basic Warship Information:
The Cerberus-class breastwork monitor was a pair of breastwork monitors built for the Royal Navy in the 1860s. HMVS Cerberus is a breastwork monitor that served in the Victoria Naval Forces, the Commonwealth Naval Forces (CNF), and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) between 1871 and 1924.
The absence of masts and rigging allowed more weight to be worked into the ship's armor. This also meant it was possible to arm the ships with two-gun turrets, one fore and one aft, which had wholly unobstructed fields of fire over the bow and stern, and on wide arcs amidships. The turrets were mounted on the upper deck and hence had a greater height above water and a correspondingly greater command than guns mounted on the main deck. The turret armament provided an additional advantage of allowing the ships to have a low freeboard. This increased the steadiness of the ship and allowed the hull armor to be applied more thickly over a more limited height of exposed hull.
--Wikipedia
We offer this warship kit in 1:350 scale, and we also include a 1:144 scale turret with interior details and two cannons, which unique features of monitors of 1860s!
This kit is under co-development by 3D-WILD (USA) and its partner Model Fun Shipyard (Italy). Model Fun Shipyard, based in Italy, has extensive experience for design of warship models with tremendous attention and effort on research and accuracy of details. The model kit will be produced and distributed globally and exclusively by 3D-WILD LLC.
Your contribution will motivate us to put more resource on developing other iconic pre-WWII warships!
