Product Description

- Aoshima's water line has been renewed with more precision!!

- A 1/700 scale plastic model kit of the third Akizuki-class destroyer [Suzutsuki] that participated in [Operation Tenichi-go] along with the battleship Yamato.
- It is simple, easy to assemble, and can accurately reproduce the appearance of the late war, when anti-aircraft weapons were greatly strengthened, with a parts configuration that keeps the main points down.
- Various new equipment has been added to the ship, including the 10cm high-angle cannon, which is a feature of Akizuki-class destroyers, and an enhanced anti-aircraft machine gun.

- Achieves dense and precise molding using a slide mold!!
- Mainly weapons such as destroyer main guns and machine guns, carrier-based aircraft and various equipment have also been updated!!

[Outfitting parts renewed with new molds]
・Type 96 25mm triple machine gun
・70cm signal search light
・Direction finder antenna
・Type 98 10cm twin high-angle gun
・No. 13 electric probe
・No. 22 electric probe
・Type 92 quadruple torpedo tube
・Type 94 Depth Charge Thrower
・Quartrant davit
・Radial davit
・7m fireboat
・7m cutter
·anchor

[Ship type: Destroyer]
[Country: Japan]

[Ship history]
- On December 29, 1942, she was completed at the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Shipyard as the third ship of the Akizuki-class air defense destroyer equipped with a long 10cm gun.
- After completion, the 61st Destroyer Squadron was formed with four ships: Akizuki, Suzutsuki, Hatsuzuki, and Wakatsuki.
- Suzutsuki's first mission was on March 22, 1943, on a mission to transport property for an air base.
- On May 22nd, when returning to the mainland after completing this mission, she escorted the battleship Musashi and returned to Yokosuka.
- After that, she was engaged in convoy escort and transport operations.
- Twice in 1944, the ship suffered severe damage, having its bow severed by torpedo strikes by U.S. submarines, but each time it recovered and returned to the front, demonstrating its strength of military fortune.
- On April 6, 1945, Suzutsuki participated in Operation Tenichi-go, the Yamato surface special attack operation, and worked with Fuyutsuki to defend the battleship Yamato.
- Suzutsuki fired anti-aircraft fire to defend Yamato, but ended up coming under fierce attack from U.S. military aircraft.
- As a result of this attack, the bridge was completely destroyed, the engine section and the front of the hull were damaged, and the ship was unable to operate.
- After the naval battle, Suzutsuki was thought to have been sunk, but she managed to return to Sasebo by going astern and was hurriedly placed in a dock.
- However, it was a close call as it sank to the ground as if it had run out of steam while draining water once it was accommodated in the dock.
- When the ship was repaired at the Sasebo Arsenal, the bridge was changed to a simplified square structure, and it was used as an air defense battery without any power.
- During the air raid on Sasebo after this air defense battery was renovated, it shot down one incoming P51 Mustang fighter.
- Suzutsuki ended the war as an air defense battery, but after the war the structure above the hull was removed and, along with her sister ship Fuyutsuki, she became a breakwater in Wakamatsu Port, Fukuoka Prefecture.

*The images shown are prototypes.



Item Size/Weight : 29 x 11 x 3.8 cm / 144g

Product Specifications

Item series

Water Line

Country

Japan

Item code

066690

JAN code

4905083066690

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