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Latest news in across from the mighty Pacific Ocean Aoshima Models are now in the advanced stages of releasing three exciting and interesting new additions to their line of 1/350th scale offerings for the model shipwright – details are outlined below:

IRONCLAD HEAVY CRUISER MYOKO　
Manufacturer: Aoshima
Scale : 1/350
Regular Price : Approx. 9,800 yen
Release date: Early August 2009
Item code: 044230

IJN HEAVY CRUISER MYOKO CLASS COMMON PHOTO-ETCHED PARTS　
Manufacturer: Aoshima
Scale : 1/350
Regular Price : Approx. 3,200 yen
Release date: Early August 2009
Item code: 047262

IJN HEAVY CRUISER MYOKO EXCLUSIVE PHOTO-ETCHED PARTS　
Manufacturer: Aoshima
Scale : 1/700
Regular Price : Approx. 3,500 yen
Release date: Early August 2009
Item code: 047279

Please note purely to clarify Aoshima are releasing a1/350th kitset of the Myoko together with two photoetch sets.

Ship History

Myōkō was the name-ship of the four-member Myōkō class of heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy .

The ships of this class displaced 13,300 tons, were 204 metres long, and were capable of 36 knots (67 km/h). They carried two floatplanes and their main armament was ten 8-inch (203mm) guns, the heaviest armament of any cruiser in the world at the time.

Myōkō was laid down at the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal on October 25, 1924, launched and named on April 16, 1927, and was commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy on July 31, 1929. She was named after a mountain in Niigata Prefecture.

She had a busy career in WW2 and survived to surrender to the British in Singapore harbour.

Images courtesy of Aoshima Models and the Imperial War Museum.