Aoshima 1:700 Kimikawa Maru — a plastic kit of the Japanese seaplane tender of the Second World War period.
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An injection-molded plastic kit in 1:700 scale from the Japanese manufacturer Aoshima. The model belongs to the established Japanese series of 1:700 ships built in the waterline version, that is, with the hull down to the waterline — the finished ship is built onto a base or onto a sea plate and has no lower part of the hull. Kimikawa Maru is an interesting choice precisely because she is neither a battleship nor a cruiser: she is an auxiliary vessel that will widen a display case with a type often missed in collections.
Kimikawa Maru was originally a merchant ship that the Imperial Japanese Navy took over and converted into a tender for floatplanes. The task of such a vessel was to carry seaplanes, to lower them onto the water and to lift them back up again and to provide them with fuel, ammunition and maintenance where no air base was available. The ship therefore carried cranes, a catapult and extensive deck areas for handling the aircraft. Kimikawa Maru served among other places in the northern Pacific in the area of the Aleutian Islands, where floatplanes provided reconnaissance over a practically permanently fog-bound sea. The ship was lost in 1944.
With 1:700 ships it pays to reverse the procedure: first assemble and paint the hull and the decks, and only then glue on the small superstructures, the cranes and the armament. Suggest the deck wood either with paint and a filter or use a self-adhesive wooden deck. It is advisable to add the thin elements — railings, ladders, antennas — with photo-etched parts or thin wire, because in plastic they come out heavy. Apply the paints with an airbrush in thin layers, otherwise the relief details will be lost. Complete the finished model with a fine wash in the recesses and light dust pigment on the sides of the hull.
The model is supplied unassembled and unpainted. Glue, paints and accessories are not included in the package, unless stated otherwise.
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