The Littorio class battleships were the largest and most powerful warships ever built in Italy, and among the first "35,000 tonners" to come under the provisions of the Washington Treaty. Although the Washington Naval Conference of 1922 gave Italy the authority to build up to 182,800 tons of new capital ships, the Italians waited more than a decade before construction began.

The RN Vittorio Veneto was commissioned 1 May 1940. During World War II her first mission came 31 August 1940 as part of a concentration of Italian battleships to challenge the British Mediterranean Fleet based at Alexandria, Egypt. After periods of inactivity, her last combat mission was The Convoy Battle in June 1942. The ship was sent to Genoa for repairs and later returned to La Spezia, where she remained until the Italian surrender in September 1943. She was decommissioned on 3 January 1948; the Paris Peace Treaty ceded her to Great Britain, and the British government permitted the Italians to scrap her in La Spezia during 1948–1950.

• 1x 1/350 Italian 1940 RN Vittorio Veneto Navy Battleship Kit