Tamiya 31342 - 1/700 JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISER MIKUMA 田宮軍事模型食水綫系列 雙星孖星  [31342]

About the Japanese Heavy Cruiser Mikuma

The next of four Mogami Class Cruisers become designed with five 15.5cm triple guns had been the Mikuma. Finished in August 1935, its primary firearms were later replaced with 20.3cm double weapons switching this ship into huge cruiser. Though of this same class, the Mikuma&39;s connection along with other structures are slightly different from those of its elder sibling, the Mogami. The Mikuma had been part of the 7th Heavy Cruiser Squadron of second fleet and participated in the Malay landing operation together with Battle of Sunda Strait at the beginning of the Pacific War. But, during the battle of Midway, when all vessels associated with the 7th Squadron made simultaneous evasive maneuvers to escaspe from an enemy submarine, the end of Mogami relocated forward and slammed into the Mikuma. A short while later, the Mikuma sustained heavy attacks from over 100 US bombers and sank to the ocean flooring regarding seas Northwest of Midway.

Specs & Features

• Japanese Heavy Cruiser Mikuma plastic construction kit. 1/700 scale, Overall size: 286.5mm, Overall width: 36.5mm.
• The graceful as a type of the Mogami course cruiser is accurately replicated.
• The hull was split in two halves so that you can reproduce the best possible details.
• Mikuma&39;s characteristic structures such as rear mast and main framework that distinguished it from Mogami have been reproduced.
• The key turrets can turn after conclusion via polycap.
• Equipment particularly armament including 12.7cm weapon turrets or triple tube torpedo launchers, main mast, aircraft crane and catapults are sharply reproduced