TAMIYA : REF : 31215 : 1:700 : WATER LINE SERIES : Japan : Shinano (Aircraft Carrier / Porte-Avions)
Tamiya REF :
31215
Fabricant
TAMIYA
ISBN : 4950344999125.
Scale :
1:700
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About the Model
This is the 1/700 assembly model kit of Shinano, the massive carrier, which was sunk only ten days after being put into commission. The unique hull design of Yamato and Musashi was passed down to Shinano, and has been accurately molded. ★The hangar under the flight deck has also been recreated, and can be equipped with aircraft. Both the front and rear aircraft elevators can be modeled in the raised or lowered position. The bridge, sloping funnel, and steam pipes have also been modeled with the utmost attention to detail. Kit also features accurate molding of rocket launchers, powerful anti-aircraft guns, and other powerful weapons of Shinano. Kit includes 32 aircraft, including the Ryusei. Since aircraft are molded in clear plastic, leaving the cabin portion unpainted produces a realistic finish.
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About the Shinano
One of the largest carriers of WWII, Shinano was originally planned to be the third installment of Yamato class battleships. The construction of this monstrous vessel was started soon after the Japanese defeat at Midway and was completed on Nov. 19, 1944. Its overall length stretched to 266m and it displaced 62,000 tons. It was well protected with heavily armored sides, inherited from Yamato, and a reinforced flight deck able to withstand the direct blast of a 500kg bomb. On its way to be fitted out however, it was spotted and torpedoed by an American submarine, later capsizing off the shores of Shionomisaki.
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Plus d'Histoire :
Le Shinano (en japonais : 信濃 ; du nom de l'ancienne province de Shinano) était un porte-avions construit par la Marine impériale japonaise (MIJ) pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le plus grand jamais construit à cette époque. Mis en chantier en mai 1940 comme troisième cuirassé de la classe Yamato, le Shinano, dont la coque était partiellement achevée, fut converti en porte-avions suite à la perte désastreuse par le Japon de quatre de ses six porte-avions d'escadrille d'origine lors de la bataille de Midway à la mi-1942. Son état de construction avancé empêchant sa conversion en porte-avions d'escadrille, la MIJ décida d'en faire un porte-avions d'appui.
Sa conversion n'était toujours pas terminée en novembre 1944 lorsqu'il reçut l'ordre de quitter l'arsenal naval de Yokosuka pour la base navale de Kure afin d'y achever son armement et de transférer une cargaison de 50 bombes volantes kamikazes à propulsion par fusée Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka. Elle fut coulée en route, dix jours après sa mise en service, le 29 novembre 1944, par quatre torpilles du sous-marin américain Archerfish. Plus de mille marins et civils furent secourus, mais 1 435 personnes périrent, dont son capitaine. Elle demeure le plus grand navire jamais coulé par un sous-marin.
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Shinano (Japanese: 信濃; named after the ancient Shinano Province) was an aircraft carrier built by the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during World War II, the largest such built up to that time. Laid down in May 1940 as the third of the Yamato-class battleships, Shinano's partially complete hull was ordered to be converted to an aircraft carrier following Japan's disastrous loss of four of its original six fleet carriers at the Battle of Midway in mid-1942. The advanced state of her construction prevented her conversion into a fleet carrier, so the IJN decided to convert her into a carrier that supported other carriers.
Her conversion was still not finished in November 1944 when she was ordered to sail from the Yokosuka Naval Arsenal to Kure Naval Base to complete fitting out and transfer a load of 50 Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka rocket-propelled kamikaze flying bombs. She was sunk en route, 10 days after commissioning, on 29 November 1944, by four torpedoes from the U.S. Navy submarine Archerfish. Over a thousand sailors and civilians were rescued and 1,435 were lost, including her captain. She remains the largest ship ever sunk by a submarine.
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Sources : Wikipedia.