Navis Neptun 31N SMS Scharnhorst, the crack gunnery ship in the Kaiser's Navy 1/1250
A 1/1250 scale metal model of Scharnhorst, flagship of the East Asiatic Squadron in 1914 by Navis Neptun 31N.
With sistership Gneisenau, she overwhelmed the British Armoured Cruisers at the Battle of Coronel but was crushed by the British Battlecruisers at the Falklands a few weeks later.
All the ships of this squadron were repainted in light grey around 29th July 1914, immediately before war was declared.