Went to Hobbytown today to get some primers, and saw this beauty and decided to just go for it, and I didn't even know that Tamiya had released a 1/350th scale Mikuma. I only knew about the Mogami, and the Yukikaze being out on the market

The moulding is perfect, and it has some very nice PE items, only thing I can complain about is no railings, and no hollow barrels for the main gun turrets




Tell me what you think, I am not going to be building it for a while, so many projects on the table already, but I am looking forward to it.

Yeah, I know all about the "it followed me home".

The Mogami si a nice it and I guess that one will be as well.

Any chance we could talk you into an in box review???

That's cool! I wish that they would start retooling their 1/700 models.

The artwork on the box is nice, but after seeing the Tamiya Mogami the other day in my LHS, would vote it as one of the best box cover paintings I've seen for a long, long time.

I've got the Mogami and that is one fine kit, so I am sure this one is just as great. Lionroar makes a set of railings and Aber does a set ofmain guntubes. You might also get the Tom's IJN heavy cruiser set which will cover catapaults and cranes. Aber set at GM was under $12 and the rail set from Lionroar under $10 from Lucky model That is pretty much how i plan my Takao and Myoko as the Tom's set has enough to do all 3

I believe the heavy cruiser, all-gun variant is coming soon, too!

--Karl

I sure hope there will be two, one early/pre war, one late war. A class of 4, with 4 very different layouts through the time, just asks to have all of them modeled and all in a different appearance.

Compared to the Takaos I've completed, the bridge on the early Mogamis is tiny!

There was a reason for that: the original design called for a Takao-style bridge, but with IJN ships already showing signs of top-heaviness and hull strain, and with the Mogami's promising even more such problems, a new designer was brought in and he drastically reduced the structure so the speed and weaponry would not be affected instead.

--Karl

I would really like to see a review of this kit compaired to the Mogami with flight deck.