Tamiya 1:350 scale Japanese Navy Battleship Musashi

[A huge battleship that the Japanese Navy was proud of along with the Yamato] The huge battleship “Musashi” was built by the Japanese Navy in World War II as the second ship of the Yamato class battleships and reigned in the Pacific Ocean.The biggest feature is the 46cm caliber. 9 main guns. The strongest naval gun with a maximum firing range of 41 km and the power to shoot through 43 cm thick armor plate from a distance of 30 km was mounted on a huge body with a displacement of 70,000 tons. March 1939 Musashi was laid down at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard on the 29th, launched on November 1, 1940, and completed on August 5, 1945.In addition to its offensive power, the Musashi boasts defensive power and a bulbous bow called a bulbous bow. It also had major features such as the shape of the hull below the waterline.In addition to using protective armor plate of approximately 21,000 tons, which is 30% of the standard displacement, the overall length was shortened as much as possible, and the bridge and engines were A concentrated defense system was adopted with a layout in which important parts such as the ship’s arms were concentrated in the center, achieving excellent defense power.It can be said that the construction of Musashi left a great legacy in the postwar Japanese shipbuilding world.The combined fleet Musashi, which joined the fleet, served as the flagship of the Combined Fleet from February 1945 to the end of March 2019, and then participated in the Battle of the Philippines (Operation Shoichi-go) in October 1944 as the main force of the Kurita Fleet. She was hit by numerous bombs and torpedoes during a concentrated attack, and sank into the Sibuyan Sea on October 24th.