31460 Tamiya - 1/700 Shimakaze Japanese Navy Destroyer No.460  [31460]

Shimakaze Specs

• Displacement: 2567 tons
• Length: 129.5m
• Power: 75000hp
• Max. Recorded Speed: 40.9 lnots
• Torpedos: 61cm quintuple pipes x3
• Principal weapon: 12.7cm double firearms x3
• Radar: Type 22x1, Tpe 13x1
• Commissioned: might 10, 1943 at Maizuru Naval Arsenal

The Shimakaze have been a destroyer that whenever could boast being one of the most significant quickest about the seas at 40.9 knots, thanks to 75,000hp from the woman vapor turbines. The woman quintuple torpedo launchers had been created specially the woman. While 16 ships was indeed initially prepared on her class, she ended up the only real person for the woman kind. She was commissioned may tenth, 1943 and served through the movie theater of conflict until she ended up being sunk in an attack by U.S. aircraft in to the Battle of Ormoc Bay, November 1944.

The Shimakaze Waterline model kit wound up being originally released in 1972. This 2017 form of the model kit is completely new since it is made utilizing up-to-date documents to re-capture the woman with superb precision.

• Length: 185mm.
• The slimline hull is recreated utilizing left and right halves.
• Split deck components function exquisite molding, with details like anchor chains.
• Slide-molded 12.7cm double gun turret depictions offer exemplary precision.
• Principal weapons and quintuple torpedo tube mounts are placed together using poly caps to permit their rotation.
• Features a faithful rendering the connection and mast.
• Decals are inside the kit to replicate linoleum deck parts and much more.
• The model completes throughout the waterline, permitting relaxation from the Shimakaze at ocean.