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Latest news in across from the mighty Pacific Ocean Aoshima Models have now announced a new addition to their line of 1/700th scale phototetch sets– details are outlined below:

Heavy Cruiser Takao Photo Etched Parts
Manufacturer: Aoshima
Scale : 1/700
Regular Price : Approx. 1,200 yen
Release date: End of August 2009
Item code: 48023

We will of course update you as and when more information comes to hand.

Ship History

Launched in May of 1930, the IJN heavy cruiser Takao served throughout the Pacific War, taking part in many campaigns and ending up as a stationary anti-aircraft defense battery after being heavily damaged by US submarines after the Battle of Leyte Gulf in 1944. She was towed to Singapore, where she finished the war as an anti-aircraft gun platform. Hit again by a British midget submarine in July of 1945, she was immobilzed, and eventually scuttled by the British in the fall of 1946.

Images courtesy of Wikipedia.

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