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If your a fan of IJN destroyers then here's something for you. Two new 'detail up' sets for the Pit-Road Shimakaze and Yamashita Hobby Fubuki destroyer kits.

The Fubuki-class destroyer was a class of twenty-four destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy and often described as the world's first modern destroyer. At a time when British and American destroyers had changed little from their un-turreted, single-gun mounts and light weaponry, the Japanese destroyers were bigger, more powerfully armed, and faster than any similar class of vessel in the other fleets.

Shimakaze was a one ship class destroyer built for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. She was armed with six 127 mm (5.0 in) dual purpose guns and conventional anti-aircraft and anti-submarine weaponry. She was the only Japanese destroyer to be armed with 15 torpedo tubes each capable of firing the deadly 610 mm (24 in) Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo. The ship was a testbed for an enormously-powerful, high-temperature, high-pressure steam engine that was able to develop nearly 80,000 shp (60,000 kW),making her one of the fastest destroyers in the world. Her designed speed was 39 kn (72 km/h; 45 mph), but on trials she made 40.9 kn (75.7 km/h; 47.1 mph).

Yamashita Hobby has no website though its products can be found at various on-line retailers. Their Fubuki kit (No 02028) is a waterline kit that came out at the end of this past summer. The Tetra detail up set (No SE70007) for it is available at Hobby Easy for HKD 58.00 ($7.50 USD) plus shipping.

The PE set (No SE70008) for the Pit-Road Shimakaze kit (No W161) is also available from Hobby Easy for HKD 70.00 ($9.00) plus shipping.