【Mikasa】Limited kit including clear parts & wooden deck! Auxiliary function enabling easy pasting attached to increase assembly ease! Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Mikasa "Battle of the Yellow Sea" w/ Wooden Deck newly appears!

“Battleship models look good completed too, but the time spent crafting details is precisely what's fun.” An existence of interest for such model fans is “Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Mikasa 'Battle of the Yellow Sea' w/ Wooden Deck”. What this product reproduces is the Imperial Japanese Navy Combined Fleet flagship “Mikasa” in the Battle of the Yellow Sea on August 10, 1904. Just having historical naval vessels as motifs piques interest, but in this kit, parts aiming for a degree of perfection a bit different from normal assembly are prepared. Points to note are clear parts and wooden deck for detail-up. Rather than ending with just assembling, it is a limited specification aimed at people who want to enjoy textures and fine expressions as well.

Gazing at warship models makes you realize that not only overall silhouettes, but small parts influence impressions surprisingly. In this kit, clear parts enabling fine finishing of bridge windows and searchlights are included, featuring the ability to incorporate expressions unique to transparent materials. You might think “Does it change with such small parts?”, but looking from nearby after completion, such details heighten the sense of density of the entire ship. Precisely because it is a warship model reproducing giant actual ships scaled down, being able to express carefully up to parts like windows and searchlights is a pleasing thing. Taking advantage of material feelings different from painting alone, there is fun in building your own Mikasa.

And what I want to pay attention to particularly in this limited kit is the included wooden deck. Because the deck occupies a wide area among warship models, it is a place greatly influencing the atmosphere when completed. In this product, a thin wooden deck with a thickness of about 0.25mm is adopted, allowing you to enjoy the texture of the material itself different from plastic. Methods of expressing wood atmospheres through painting are also real pleasures of model making, but finishing by pasting actual wooden parts has another interest. By adding differences in material feelings with the hull and structures, a figure worth seeing can be expected even when gazing from above after completion.

Some people might feel “Wooden decks are appealing, but attaching seems difficult”. What is helpful there is that glue is applied in advance to the back of the deck parts. It is devised so that the process of spreading adhesive separately is reduced, enabling easy pasting. Including the thinness of about 0.25mm, it is a structure easy to enjoy detail-up while making use of the kit's original sculpting. Rather than the direction of adding a large amount of fine processing, because appearance can be raised one step utilizing included parts, isn't it an interesting specification even for modelers thinking “I want to try making a slightly elaborate Mikasa”?

The setting of the Battle of the Yellow Sea on August 10, 1904, serving as the theme of this product, cannot be missed by warship model fans emphasizing historical background either. Rather than simply making “Battleship Mikasa” into 3D, having as a motif the period facing the Battle of the Yellow Sea as the Combined Fleet flagship generates fun thinking back to the fleet and naval battles of those days while gazing at the completed product. Investigating naval vessel structures using models as an opportunity or reading back records of those days is also a deep way of enjoying unique to this genre.

The charm of “Imperial Japanese Navy Battleship Mikasa 'Battle of the Yellow Sea' w/ Wooden Deck” lies in the point that, in addition to being able to assemble the historical Mikasa, the amount of information upon completion can be heightened through clear parts and wooden deck. Taking advantage of transparent materials for bridge windows and searchlights, expressions unique to real wood are added to the wide deck. Moreover, glue is prepared on the back of the wooden deck, considering ease of attachment as well. After thoroughly moving hands to finish, gazing at the completed Mikasa from various angles. It is a warship model unique to limited specifications that seems to entertain the time itself from “production to appreciation”.