TAMIYA - 1/700 Aircraft Carrier DDV192 Ibuki Plastic Model Ship Kit (25413)

TAMIYA - 1/700 Aircraft Carrier DDV192 Ibuki Plastic Model Ship Kit(25413)



This is a water line model with a bit of a twist it creates thefictional aircraft carrier DDV192 Ibuki, star of Kubo Ibuki(Aircraft Carrier Ibuki), a Japanese language story by KawaguchiKaiji and Eya Osamu, serialized from December 2014 in theShogakukan publication "Big Comic." The model commemorates 50 yearsof Big Comic. Events in the story occur in the year 20XX, against abackdrop of increasing territorial tensions around the Japanesearchipelago, which threaten to escalate into full-blown conflictwith an attack from a foreign power in April 20XY. The Ibuki,commanded by former ace pilot Akitsu Ryota, is the largest ship ofthe fleet and the flagship of Escort Flotilla 5. She is animaginary adaptation of an actual design - that of the DDH22 Izumoclass helicopter destroyer and borrows her name from an uncompletedWWII ship.

1/700 scale plastic model assembly kit. Length: 354mm, width:72mm.
Detailed island has multi-part mast and bridge depictions.
1-piece depiction of deck with individual catwalk parts. Centerelevator can be depicted in 2 positions, even after completion ofthe model: flush with the deck, or slightly lowered.
Multi-part recreations of mast, deck-edge elevator, Sea Ramlaunchers and Phalanx CIWS installations.
Includes ten STOVL aircraft eight parked and two with lift fansengaged ready for take-off and four helicopters (rotors deployed orfolded), plus tractors, rescue vehicles and helicopter towdollies.







/!\ WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD - Small parts. Not for children under 3 yrs.
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