JMSDF Defender Ayanami the 1st (Plastic model) - HobbySearch Military Model Store

This item is limited to 3 per household.

Full length: approx 155.7mm.

- Plastic model kit
- Ocean Models

- Ayanami destroyer type, the Maritime Self Defense Force destroyers were built in planning the first defense buildup plan (originally guard ship), and seven ships were built in the Showa 30-33 year plan.
- Adopt a long forecastle type hull for better stability and capacity building. The strength of the connection of the front and rear steps and weaknesses were solved by a continuous deck with a gentle slope. [Dutch Hill] called tilt deck type, Murasame, is aware of the type adopted there, and now iconic silhouette of the initial escort Defense.

- Rapid-fire gun armament is associative with the first インチ Mk.33 3 destroyers. Mk.15 as anti-submarine Armament
Hedgehog, projection equipment depth charges (if Y), the short torpedo aircraft incident, rail dropped depth charges. Equipped with twin torpedo tubes for the water-to-submarine 53cm4 were focused on anti-submarine capability.

- Ayanami is assigned to the 1st Submarine Squadron Yokosuka region after February 1958 was commissioned in 1983, was changed to the ship classification 特務. Early-type belongs to a group called Rei type, equipped with the ESM and later, guns and shields, third, is characterized by the absence of the quarterdeck bulwarks.

- The kit is the most important feature of this vessel [Dutch Hill] started the deck, and reproduce without leaving the characteristic of the destroyer Ayanami laid the foundation for later. For those who actually saw the ship will be a model seems very nostalgic.

Item Size/Weight : 29.3 x 13 x 3.3 cm / 99g