1/700 SLP-1 IHP IJN No. 13-16 Battleship Class - Japan 8-8 Fleet Program 1921 Design - Hull Plus Large Parts Only - Imperial Hobby Productions
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: NM
This kit consist of a beautiful high-definition resin cast waterline hull and the ship's large & unique parts. These parts include 4x main turrets, funnel, 6 levels of superstructure parts and the aft mainmast base structure. Like all IHP 'hull + unique/large parts' models, you will need another kit (or two) to completely detail it. In some cases the Pit Road/Skywave sets of "Equipment For Japan Navy Ships" works well for even finer details. Never started. The hull is in mint condition. The small parts are still factory sealed. Includes instructions with excellent drawings and references. The Number 13-class battleship was a planned class of four fast battleships to be built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. The ships never received any names, being known only as Numbers 13–16. They were intended to reinforce Japan's "eight-eight fleet" of eight battleships and eight battlecruisers after the United States announced a major naval construction program in 1919. The Number 13 class was designed to be superior to all other existing battleships, planned or building. After the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1922, they were canceled in November 1923. In the words of naval historian Siegfried Breyer, "had [the ships] been completed, they would have been the world's largest and most powerful battleships. Their gun calibre alone would have caused a new and more intensive naval arms race. From an engineering aspect they were more than ten years ahead of their time because they anticipated the characteristics of the fully developed, fast battleship." Naval architects William Garzke and Robert Dulin concur saying, "These ships would have completely outclassed any European battleship." The Number 13 class was designed by Captain Yuzuru Hiraga, the naval architect responsible for most of the previous Japanese capital ships. The ships were based on his previous Kii-class battleship and Amagi-class battlecruiser designs, enlarged to take 18 inch guns.
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