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Thursday, November 05, 2015 - 06:25 PM UTC
Hasegawa is issuing upgraded versions of their Myoko class cruisers Myoko and Nachi for the new year. These kits appear to have refined detail added and are now full hull kits.
The four Myōkō-class cruisers were built for the Imperial Japanese Navy in the late 1920s. Three were lost during World War II.
The ships of this class displaced 11,633 tons (standard), were 201 metres (659 ft) long, and were capable of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). They carried two aircraft and their main armament was ten 20.3-centimetre (8 in) guns in five twin turrets. At the time, this was the heaviest armament of any cruiser class in the world. They were also the first cruisers the Japanese Navy constructed that exceeded the (10,000 ton) limit set by the Washington Naval Treaty.
Myoko was the only ship of the class not to be sunk durring the war. She served in campaign ranging from the invasion of the Philipines to the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It was at Leyte that she took on so much damaged the she had to be towed to port and was considered too far gone to be worth reparing. She was scuttled after the end of the war.
Nachi served with her sister early on with the invasion of the Philipines and also met her end there, in Manila Bay in late October when she was pummeled by aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-16).
Both kits will be available this December from Hobby Link Japan for ¥3,360 ($27.62 USD, €25.39) plus shipping.
The ships of this class displaced 11,633 tons (standard), were 201 metres (659 ft) long, and were capable of 36 knots (67 km/h; 41 mph). They carried two aircraft and their main armament was ten 20.3-centimetre (8 in) guns in five twin turrets. At the time, this was the heaviest armament of any cruiser class in the world. They were also the first cruisers the Japanese Navy constructed that exceeded the (10,000 ton) limit set by the Washington Naval Treaty.
Myoko was the only ship of the class not to be sunk durring the war. She served in campaign ranging from the invasion of the Philipines to the Battle of Leyte Gulf. It was at Leyte that she took on so much damaged the she had to be towed to port and was considered too far gone to be worth reparing. She was scuttled after the end of the war.
Nachi served with her sister early on with the invasion of the Philipines and also met her end there, in Manila Bay in late October when she was pummeled by aircraft from USS Lexington (CV-16).
Both kits will be available this December from Hobby Link Japan for ¥3,360 ($27.62 USD, €25.39) plus shipping.
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