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• 1/350th Scale reproduction of USS Indianapolis and IJN I-58 with KAITEN.
The Indianapolis is molded in light gray. The lower hull is molded in red and the display stand, propellers and shafts, smaller caliber guns, and other small details are molded in black.
Features and Options:
Choice of full hull or waterline display (both kits)
Fitted with late war Bofors guns
Catapult with mounted aircraft
Optional display stands with name plates
Photo-etched details for each of the 40mm Bofors gun mounts
Photo-etched seaplane catapults
Turned brass 8" main gun barrels
New photo-etch and metal rod smoke generators
Photo-etched ladders, railings, crane, bridge shields, funnel details, boat davits, SC-1 Seahawk details and launch cradles, foremast and main mast, radar and sensor antennas, Mk.34 gun director structure
Wood foredeck on the Indianapolis
Wood main deck on the I-58
USS Indianapolis served as the flagship for the 5th Fleet under command of Vice Admiral Raymond Spruance and supported major actions in the Pacific. March 1945 she was seriously damaged in a Kamikaze attack and later returned to action. She carried a special cargo to Tinian Island for the 509th Bomb Group's atomic attacks on Japan. Finally she was sunk enroute from Guam to Leyte by a Japanese submarine.
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