The battleship Hiei in 1:700 scale is a plastic kit from the Japanese manufacturer Hasegawa, rendered in the waterline form.
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Injection-molded plastic kit of the Japanese battleship Hiei in 1:700 scale from the Japanese manufacturer Hasegawa. The model is part of this maker's range of warships in this scale and is designed as a waterline model: the lower part of the hull is absent and the finished ship is set on a water base or into a diorama. Hiei was a sister ship of Kongo, so the model goes together beautifully with the other units of that class and with Japanese cruisers and destroyers in the same scale.
Hiei belonged to the Kongo class and, unlike the lead ship, was built in a Japanese yard from the start. Between the wars she was disarmed and converted into a training ship under the international disarmament agreements; in that form she also served for ceremonial voyages. In the second half of the 1930s she went through a thorough reconstruction that returned her to the state of a full-fledged fast battleship: she received a new powerplant and a modern pagoda superstructure, whose layout became the pattern for later Japanese battleships. The main armament consisted of eight guns of roughly 356 mm in twin turrets. Hiei was committed to operations in the Pacific and in November 1942 she was heavily damaged in a night action off Guadalcanal and lost the following day; she was the first Japanese battleship lost in that war.
Finish and spray the hull and the decks first, and only then fit the superstructures and the small armament. The wooden deck areas come to life if, over the base shade, you go lightly over them with a weak wash that runs into the engraved seams. The tall pagoda superstructure is characteristic of this class, so pay attention to getting it vertical, because a leaning superstructure shows on a finished model at first glance. Railings and walkways are worth replacing with photo-etched parts, and the mast rigging can be suggested with fine fishing line. For the effect of a ship under way it pays to set the model into a water surface made of modeling resin or acrylic gel.
The model is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Glue, paints and accessories are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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