1/300 4001-500 Paramount Motorized Polar Icebreaker - South Pole Observation Ship Fuji
Plastic Model Kit, Box Condition: VG++
This unique kit is a large 1/300 scale and is motorized for operation in water. Features one piece hull, metal gear box, shafts and propellers, TKK Mabuchi 25 Motor, very good deck and fittings details, optional position cranes (stowed or deployed), helicopters that can be displayed on the launch deck or stowed in the hanger deck, display stand and more. Molded in orange, gray and ivory. This kit has a factory painted red hull below the waterline and that paint is in like new condition. This kit was also released by Nichimo and Sharp. In 1957 Japan opened her first Antarctic bases. In 1965 they built the ice-breaker Fuji as a support ship for the Showa South Pole Base. The ship served until the big ice-breaker Shirase was built in 1983. The Fuji is now a museum ship in the port of Nagoya, Japan.
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