Fujimi Adds Yamato And Musashi To 1/700 Ship NEXT Series
The two kits are the naming entries in Fujimi's snap-fit Ship NEXT line, and the wooden deck stickers plus waterline split mean the same box serves builders who want a full hull and those who want a sea diorama.
Reporting from 1 source: Dengeki Hobby Web.
Fujimi Model will release 1/700 scale battleship kits of Yamato and Musashi in its Ship NEXT Series, each priced at 5,280 yen including tax. Both are full-hull kits reproduced down to the hull bottom, but the parts are divided at the waterline so each can also be built as a waterline model. Each kit includes a wooden deck sticker and pre-cut detail stickers.
Fujimi Model is slotting Yamato and Musashi into its 1/700 Ship NEXT Series, with each kit listed at 5,280 yen including tax. The kits build without glue. The hull is reproduced down to the bottom, but the parts divide at the waterline, so a builder can stop there and display the ship as a waterline model instead.
The Yamato kit follows the ship's final appearance in April 1945, adding triple machine guns port and starboard and dropping the stern antenna mast. The Musashi kit shows two secondary gun turrets removed and anti-aircraft armament reinforced, with a dark gray hull molded in Kure Naval Arsenal color.
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