User Name: Wayne Little
Kit: Pit road IJN Musashi 1944
Scale : 1/700
With this year being the 75th Anniversary of the sinking of one of the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, I thought it appropriate to now get my trilogy of the Yamato Class Ships happening.
I have been chipping away at the kit for a while now to get it done…
Displacing some 72,000t fully loaded she was armed with nine 46-centimetre (18.1 in) main guns, the largest mounted on a Battleship, Musashi (武蔵), was the second of three Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the Sibuyan Sea, IJN Musashi was attacked over a 5 hour period and struck by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft.
Musashi was heavily damaged but It would take another 4 hours before she finally capsized and sank.
Of a crew of approximately 2400 some 1000 went down with the ship.
The wreck of Musashi was located in March 2015 by a team of researchers employed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Further reading can be viewed at the following sites, the second of which provides some detailed analysis of the attack waves sent against Musashi and the punishment she sustained before sinking.
Japanese battleship Musashi - Wikipedia
Musashi: The Final Days « The USS Flier Project
Kit: Pit road IJN Musashi 1944
Scale : 1/700
With this year being the 75th Anniversary of the sinking of one of the largest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, I thought it appropriate to now get my trilogy of the Yamato Class Ships happening.
I have been chipping away at the kit for a while now to get it done…
Displacing some 72,000t fully loaded she was armed with nine 46-centimetre (18.1 in) main guns, the largest mounted on a Battleship, Musashi (武蔵), was the second of three Yamato-class battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy.
On 24 October 1944 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, in the Sibuyan Sea, IJN Musashi was attacked over a 5 hour period and struck by an estimated 19 torpedo and 17 bomb hits from American carrier-based aircraft.
Musashi was heavily damaged but It would take another 4 hours before she finally capsized and sank.
Of a crew of approximately 2400 some 1000 went down with the ship.
The wreck of Musashi was located in March 2015 by a team of researchers employed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Further reading can be viewed at the following sites, the second of which provides some detailed analysis of the attack waves sent against Musashi and the punishment she sustained before sinking.
Japanese battleship Musashi - Wikipedia
Musashi: The Final Days « The USS Flier Project