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Hasegawa: "Battle of Leyte Gulf" Yahagi
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Posted: Monday, September 28, 2015 - 02:47 AM UTC


Coming this November, the Yahagi is a version of the Agano class light cruiser kit that is of a new mold as opposed to Hasegawa's previous release of the Agano herself. It will also include markings and detail associated with Yahagi as she was at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

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Posted: Monday, September 28, 2015 - 05:42 PM UTC
Yahagi had one of the nicest profiles of IJN cruisers. Is this a new tooling kit?
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Posted: Monday, September 28, 2015 - 11:58 PM UTC
From what I can tell from translating the Hasegawa Japanese site, that describes this as a 'new molding', it's a least a re-tooled mold. They released a 'Yahagi' kit in 2009 labeled 'Operation Ten-Ichi-go 1945' so I can't imagine they'd do another from scratch.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 01:03 AM UTC
Yes the 2009 release was Apr 45 config and this one will be Oct 44. Probably not a huge difference. Maybe radar and AA config.
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Posted: Tuesday, September 29, 2015 - 01:39 AM UTC
The site also mentioned specific PE detail for searchlights specific to the '44 operation.
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