Thanks Steve, yes it will be a nice model.
I don't know why but the Germans seemed to always want a pair of cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
Short history and if you are interested read Castles of Steel.
She and the second Gneisenau were both launched in 1906 and were the capital ships of the German East Asia Squadron, based in Tsingtao China.
As you know, Tsingtao Beer is a 100 plus year old brewery that bottles an excellent lager.
Scharnhorst and Gneisenau were 8" cruisers. The squadron also included the 4" light cruisers Emden, Nurnberg and Leipzig. Later joined by Dresden.
At the outbreak of war in August 1914 the Squadron left China to sail to Germany via the Cape at South America. Emden was dispatched to the west to raid in the Indian Ocean.
All ships were repainted from the peacetime buff over white, to gray.
Emden created her own story, well worth a read The Last Cruise of the Emden.
The Squadron sailed to Chile and engaged the British at the Battle of Coronel on 11/1/1914, sinking two cruisers.
The Squadron continued around the Cape Horn and entered the Atlantic intending to sail home.
On November 8, 1914 the British received information about the battle and sent two 12" battlecruisers, Inflexible and Invincible to battle the Germans.
On December 7, the Squadron attacked the Falkland Islands, intending to destroy the wireless station and capture the coal bunkered there.
Unexpectedly, the two British ships and three cruisers had arrived at the Falklands a day before and were anchored behind a headland which obscured their presence until the Germans were in close range.
In the ensuing engagement on December 8, the British sank Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and all of the cruisers except Dresden, which escaped and returned to Germay.
Maximillian Von Spee was killed on Scharnhorst (the flag ), his son Otto was killed on Nurnberg and his son Heinrich was killed on Gneisenau .