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Foresight Models of Japan has announced the December, 2019 release of the IJN Merchant Raider Shinano Maru with Nameplate in 1/700 scale.

According to Wikipedia,

Shinano Maru was a 6,388 GRT merchantman operated by the Nippon Yusen K.K Shipping Company (NYK). She was built by W. Henderson Co in Glasgow, for the express purpose of serving NYK's Japan to Seattle route. NYK originally intended that she be built at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki shipyards in Japan; however, Mitsubishi had experienced problems in the completion of Hitachi Maru, which had led to considerable delays. NYK chose not to wait, and Shinano Maru was ordered to Scotland. She was completed in April 1900. During the Russo-Japanese War Shinano Maru was converted into an armed merchantman. She has the distinction of discovering the Russian Fleet near Tsushima Strait on the eve of the Battle of Tsushima. After the war Shinano Maru reverted to civilian use, being scrapped in 1951.

The resin and white-metal kit comes with a bonus white-metal penguin figure.

The 1/700 scale IJN Merchant Raider Shinano Maru with Nameplate is listed by Hobbylink Japan at https://www.hlj.com/1-700-scale-resin-kit-ijn-merchant-raider-shinano-maru-with-nameplate-intsmi014 and can be preordered now for about US$69.