At the recent COW20026, my old friend Nigel Drury very kindly gave me a model of the INS Nagato to add to my collection of 1/1200th-scale Imperial Japanese Navy ships.
(38,510 tons; 25 knots; 8 x 16-inch guns, 18 x 5.5-inch guns; 8 x 5-inch AA guns; 98 x 25mm AA guns; a catapult; 3 floatplanes)
This will now serve as my fleet flagship, rather as she did for Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.
My 1/1200th-scale collection of Imperial Japanese Navy warships now comprises:
Battleships
- Nagato-class: Nagato
- Fuso-class: Fuso
- Kongo-class: Kongo; Haruna
Aircraft Carriers
- Kaga-class: Kaga
- Akagi-class: Akagi
Heavy Cruisers
- Myoko-class: Myoko
- Mogami-class: Mogami
- Aoba-class: Aoba
Light Cruisers
- Yubari-class: Yubari
- Isuzu-class: Nagano
- Sendai-class: Sendai
- Chikuma-class: Chikuma; Hirado
Destroyers
- Kagero-class: Kagero; Shiranui; Kuroshio; Oyashio
- Mutsuki-class: Mutsuki; Kisaragi; Uzuki
- Asashi-class: Asashio; Ōshio
- Fubuki-class: Fubuki; Amagiri; Asagiri; Shirayuki; Hatsuyuki; Murakumo; Shinonome; Oboro
- Hatsuharu-class: Hatsuharu
- Shimakaze-class: Shimakaze
- Kaba-class: Kaba, Kashiwa
Quite an impressive little collection, even though I say it myself!
Bob -
ReplyDeleteCollection? I'd call it a fleet!
Cheers,
Ion
Archduke Piccolo (Ion),
DeleteThat’s probable very true!
All the best,
Bob
Hello there Bob,
ReplyDeleteThat is shaping up to be a very impressive collection! Have you thought about aircraft to accompany it?
All the best,
DC
David Crook,
DeleteIt’s one aspect of collecting these models that I haven’t yet settled on. I only have the two aircraft carriers at present … but will probably acquire more in due course.
All the best,
Bob
What do you plan to do with it?
ReplyDeleteConrad Kinch,
DeleteI hope to use them in a wargame at some point.
All the best,
Bob