Tamiya 31460 - 1/700 Shimakaze Japanese Navy Destroyer No.460 田宮軍事模型食水綫系列 雙星孖星  [31460]

Shimakaze Specs

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

The Shimakaze ended up being a destroyer that when could boast being among the fastest regarding the seas at 40.9 knots, as a result of 75,000hp from the woman vapor turbines. Her quintuple torpedo launchers were created specifically for the girl. While 16 vessels had been originally in the pipeline for her class, she wound up the only person of the woman type. She had been commissioned on 10th, 1943 and served over the theater of conflict until she was sunk in an attack by U.S. aircraft in the Battle of Ormoc Bay, November 1944.

The Shimakaze Waterline model kit ended up being initially released in 1972. This 2017 form of the model kit is wholly new since it had been designed making use of up-to-date papers to re-capture the woman with superb precision.

• Length: 185mm.
• The slimline hull is recreated using left and right halves.
• Separate deck parts function exquisite molding, with details like anchor chains.
• Slide-molded 12.7cm twin gun turret depictions offer excellent precision.
• Principal weapons and quintuple torpedo pipe mounts are put together making use of poly caps to permit their rotation.
• Features a faithful rendering of the bridge and mast.
• Decals are within the kit to replicate linoleum deck sections and more.
• The model completes at waterline, allowing fun associated with the Shimakaze at ocean.