1/350 40061 Hasegawa Mikasa IJN Battleship Special Edition - 'The Battle of the Yellow Sea' - With Book
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
Special issue includes heavily-illustrated guidbook 'Battleship Mikasa' published by the Museum of Maritime Science. Superbly molded and detailed kit of this historic ship and one of the surviving pre-dreadnoughts. Full-hull model has 430 pieces. The kit has never been started. The parts are still in the internal factory sealed bags and includes decals and instructions. Mikasa was the only ship of her class and took part in the Russo-Japanese war. In the late 1890s the Japanese shipyards were not quite yet ready for such a project, so the Navy contracted with Vickers in Great Britain to build this ship, which is actually a highly modified Formidable class. Mikasa saw a great amount of action at Port Arthur and the Battle of the Yellow Sea. She was preserved as a museum ship in 1923. Mikasa suffered from neglect during and after WWII, but was restored to her former glory in the 1950s after a campaign led by the Japan Times and Admiral Chester Nimitz. The Mikasa is the only surviving pre-dreadnought in the world.
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